Prague, April 5 (CTK) – A crowd of 300, mostly young people demanded change in the situation in Slovakia, the dismissal of police president Tibor Gaspar and an independent investigation into the murder of young journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee at a rally in Prague today. Speeches were delivered by the Slovaks studying ...
Prague, April 5 (CTK) – The volume of trading in shares on the Prague Stock Exchange (BCPP) keeps falling, in the first quarter of this year it reached Kc39.5bn and was Kc1bn lower than a year earlier, according to information from the BEPP. The BCPP celebrates 25 years of existence these days. Traded ...
Prague, March 27 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman’s decision that the BIS counter-intelligence service should check whether the Novichok nerve agent, which was used to attack a Russian former spy Sergei Skripal in Britain, was developed or stored in Czech territory, is not useless, Defence Minister Karla Slechtova said today. Slechtova said she hoped ...
Lany, Central Bohemia, March 27 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman said today he will not dismiss his Chinese adviser Ye Jianming until he is charged with a concrete crime or convicted, and he will rather wait for the course of China’s investigation into Ye’s activities. At the head of the CEFC company, Ye ...
Prague, March 26 (CTK) – The intelligence service (Office for Foreign Relations and Information, UZSI) is dealing with the biggest scandal in the history of Czech secret services as its inspection is checking the suspicion that hundreds of million crowns were lost in it, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today. Some expenses that ...
Prague, March 26 (CTK) – The Czech Republic is expelling three members of the Russian diplomatic staff in reaction to the nerve poison attack on former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in Britain, as a step of solidarity with Britain, PM Andrej Babis (ANO) told journalists today. He said Russia carried it too far when ...
Prague, March 25 (CTK) – The story of Bohuslav Sobotka, former Czech prime minister and Social Democrat (CSSD) chairman, can serve both as an inspiration and a warning to his successors in the CSSD, Lukas Jelinek writes in the Saturday issue of daily Pravo. Sobotka, 46, the CSSD chairman in 2011-17, PM in 2014-17 ...
Prague, March 24 (CTK) – A Czech-Chinese business forum may take place in the Czech Republic again at the end of the summer and significant Chinese firms should invest in the country, Presidential Office head Vratislav Mynar has told CTK. Mynar was negotiating with one of these firms during his recent trip to China ...
Prague, March 25 (CTK) – Paul Ryan, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, probably arrived in Prague this afternoon for a private visit during which he would meet Czech PM Andrej Babis (ANO) on Monday and visit both houses of parliament on Tuesday. A meeting with President Milos Zeman is not on Ryan’s ...
