Demonstrations were held across the Czech Republic on Monday night voicing broad protest over the recent election of Communist Party MP Zdeněk Ondráček as chairman of the lower house committee overseeing the General Inspectorate of the Security Forces, which investigates the police. Thousands gathered on Wenceslas Square in Prague as well as in Brno ...
Prague, March 5 (CTK) – The until recently widely accepted facts that the Czech Republic is closely connected with West Europe and that the totalitarian Communist Party (KSCM) is unacceptable, have been challenged due to Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO), Erik Tabery writes in weekly Respekt out today. He says this leads to a ...
Czech President Miloš Zeman sent a letter to Pope Francis on Wednesday requesting to extend Cardinal Dominik Duka’s mandate as archbishop of Prague. The president reacted to an initiative of a hundred Catholic laymen who had petitioned Pope Francis not to extend the archbishop’s tenure, criticizing the church for alleged nationalist tendencies. In ...
Prague, March 4 (CTK) – Protests against the election of Communist (KSCM) MP Zdenek Ondracek as head of the lower house commission for the supervision of the General Inspection of Security Corps (GIBS) will take place in 11 Czech towns on Monday evening, Lucie Kohoutova told CTK today. The protesters want simultaneously sign a ...
Prague, March 3 (CTK) – Czech ANO leader Andrej Babis, who is conducting government-forming negotiations, will ask the Chamber of Deputies to take a vote of confidence in his new cabinet only if it is sure of success, he says in daily Pravo today, adding that his second attempt to win confidence would be no ...
Prague/Beijing, March 1 (CTK) – The Czech Presidential Office today consulted Chinese Ambassador in Prague, Ma Keqing, on the alleged arrest of China’s CEFC energy group board chairman Ye Jianming, who is President Milos Zeman’s aide, over suspected economic crimes, the Tyden weekly writes on its website. Ma did not confirm the arrest of ...
Prague, Feb 28 (CTK) – Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov called Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Tuesday in regard to CEZ energy group selling its Bulgarian assets, Babis told journalists today, denying sending Borisov documents on the issue. Borisov said he had received confidential documents from Babis stating that Russian-Georgian companies based in ...
The following article written by Nicholas Watson first appeared on Politico.eu PRAGUE — The Czech Republic looks set for a confrontation with the European Commission — and its anti-nuclear neighbors — over its ambitions to expand nuclear power. Prague wants to streamline a project to build a new reactor at the Dukovany nuclear power ...
Prague, Feb 23 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman has asked twice Justice Minister Robert Pelikan (ANO) to release to Russia alleged Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin, now detained in Prague pending the decision on his extradition to the USA or Russia, Pelikan told the server Aktualne.cz today. Pelikan said at the beginning of the week, ...
