Prague, Sept 14 (CTK) – The state has signed three deals on granting subsidies worth 6.5 million crowns to firms that are part of Agrofert, a holding built by current PM Andrej Babis, and also to firms of Agriculture Minister Miroslav Toman’s father, which may be at odds with the EU rules, the Pirates have ...
Prague, Sept 11 (CTK) – The Czech opposition Pirates today called on the cabinet to draft an analysis of the financial sum churches are receiving within restitution and the lower house should interrupt its debate on the sum’s taxation pending the analysis, Pirate MPs’ group head Jakub Michalek has said. The Chamber of Deputies ...
Prague, Sept 4 (CTK) – The Pirates have a chance of winning the local election in Prague and would like to succeed in other Czech towns, too, their chairman Ivan Bartos said at the party’s launch of election campaign today. The Pirates are promising open town halls, accessible housing, transparent decision making, involvement of ...
Prague, July 25 (CTK) – The huge holding Agrofert should return the subsidies and payments for state procurement because it is still controlled by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO), the Pirates said in a press release issued today. The Pirates said they reached this conclusion based on an analysis of legislation and consultations ...
Prague, July 5 (CTK) – Czech Pirates have started collecting signatures for a petition demanding that the civil service should accept online petitions, not only in the paper form, the Pirates told journalists today. An online petition may facilitate the foundation of civic lists of candidates for local elections or for a presidential candidate. ...
Prague, May 25 (CTK) – Czech Pirate MP Tomas Vymazal was running a strange business in his official flat at the Chamber of Deputies’ facility in the Prague centre where he installed a high-performance computer to mine cryptocurrency, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes today. Vymazal’ activity was revealed because of high electricity bills that ...
Prague, May 22 (CTK) – The Czech lower house mandate and immunity committee did not start disciplinary proceedings with MP Mikulas Peksa (Pirates) today over his words on EU subsidy abuse referring to PM Andrej Babis (ANO), its chairman Stanislav Grospic (Communists, KSCM) has told reporters. Nevertheless, the committee called on all deputies to ...
Plzen, West Bohemia, May 8 (CTK) – The national forum of the Pirates has decided to withdraw Jan Ruml, a former Czech post-communist interior minister and senator and dissident under the Communist regime, from their list of candidates to the Senate, spokeswoman Karolina Sadilkova told CTK today. Ruml said he respected the decision, adding ...
Prague, April 15 (CTK) – The Pirates leader, Ivan Bartos, wants to ask President Milos Zeman on Tuesday whether he will entrust a different person than Prime Minister Andrej Babis with forming a government, Bartos told Czech Television (CT) today. Bartos said Babis had failed in the talks. The Chamber of Deputies chairman, ...
