Kosice, East Slovakia, Sept 17 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and his Slovak counterpart Peter Pellegrini criticised the EC plan to upgrade the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) as of 2020 after the joint meeting of the two countries’ governments today. They said this would be a useless parallel structure ...
Brussels, Sept 17 (CTK correspondent) – EC Vice-President Maros Sefcovic, from Slovakia, today confirmed he wants to be the European Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group’s leading candidate in the EU elections and said he has been backed by nine Social Democratic parties and thus met the S&D’s internal conditions. Sefcovic, 52, together with German ...
Prague, July 24 (CTK) – The government is not happy with the Czech Republic’s absorption of the European Union funds, and it must pay more attention to the issue than it has, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said at a press conference following a meeting of the council for European structural and investment funds (ESIF). ...
Prague/Berlin/Darney, France, June 30 (CTK) – No talks on a deal on taking back migrants occurred between Prague and Berlin and the Czech government would not join any deal on returning migrants who previously got registered in the other country, Czech PM Andrej Babis said in a statement sent to CTK today. Babis denied ...
Budapest, June 21 (CTK) – None of the PMs from the Visegrad Four group (V4; the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) will attend the EU mini-summit on migration on Sunday, since there will be migrant-friendly states and the V4 would disagree with the expected conclusions, Czech PM Andrej Babis said today. At the V4 ...
Pardubice, East Bohemia, June 18 (CTK) – The European Union budget draft for the next programming period is unacceptable for the Czech government, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said today. “It is imperfect just like the one for the current budget period,” he added. According to him, the Union ordered the Czech Republic to ...
Prague, June 4 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis is against the introduction of an EU system of compensations that the member countries which do not accept migrants would provide to others, he said today about the idea recently mentioned by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “We do not want to compensate for it. ...
Brno, May 26 (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) does not consider Czech accession to the euro zone a priority and he is satisfied with the Czech crown, he said today in a discussion meeting on the first day of the Re:publika festival in Brno, which marks the centenary of the birth of Czechoslovakia. ...
Prague, May 24 (CTK) – The introduction of the EU’s privacy protection directive (GDPR), to come in force on Friday, will cost Czech firms some Kc25bn in total, according to the latest survey that the Chamber of Commerce made among 459 firms of all sizes across sectors. Most companies will pay no more than ...
