Czech President Milos Zeman said the West’s allegations of espionage against Chinese telecoms company Huawei are not supported by evidence. Zeman made the remarks during his trip to Beijing for last week’s Belt and Road Forum, when he met Chinese President Xi Jinping and Huawei executives. Xi said China was willing to work with the ...
Czech President Milos Zeman has sworn in a new justice minister amid street protests against her appointment. Thousands have ralled in Prague and elsewhere to protest the appointment of Marie Benesova, who they say might compromise the legal system as prosecutors decide whether to indict Prime Minister Andrej Babis over alleged fraud involving European Union ...
President Miloš Zeman, who on Sunday winds up a four day official visit to China, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for talks dominated by trade and investment. The Czech head of state has been pushing to increase the level of Chinese investments in the Czech Republic which failed to meet expectations after the ...
The Czech branch of the International watchdog Transparency International has filed a criminal complaint against President Zeman’s chancellor, Vratislav Mynář. The complaint is in connection with suspected fraud involving national and EU subsidies to the tune of 32 million crowns which Mynář received for a guesthouse he built in South Moravia. According to ...
In 1989, up to half a million people filled Wenceslas Square during the Velvet Revolution that deposed the communists. Thirty years later, on Thursday, French far-right figurehead Marine le Pen and the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders urged Czechs to once more fight “dictatorship”. “The whole of Europe remembers the Prague Spring,” Le Pen told ...
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, sets off on a working visit to China on Wednesday. He is due to hold meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping as well as leading representatives of Huawei, Bank of China and CITIC. The Czech authorities have identified Huawei products as a security threat but Mr. Zeman says there is ...
Czech President Milos Zeman will meet Huawei Chief Executive Ren Zhengfei when he visits China this week in a sign of support for the technology firm, which faces U.S. allegations that Beijing could use its technology for spying. The meeting with Ren comes just days before a conference in Prague where the United States ...
Czech President Milos Zeman will appoint Karel Havlicek, the head of a small business association and deputy chief of the government’s science and research council, as new industry minister on April 30, a spokesman said on Monday. The president will also appoint lawyer Vladimir Kremlik as new transport minister, replacing Dan Tok who resigned ...
The president of the Czech Republic is attempting to turn the country’s population against intellectuals and polarize society by vetoing professorships for critical academics, according to an art historian who has had his promotion repeatedly blocked. Miloš Zeman, who is known for his opposition to Muslim immigration and closeness to Russia and is often ...
