The luminaries of Europe’s rightwing movements congregated on a recent spring day in Prague’s historic center to preach to their army of devotees about what they see as wrong with the continent. No to migrants. No to multiculturalism. Yes to populism. Taking center stage alongside Marine Le Pen from France and Geert Wilders from ...
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 ...
Prague, Sept 14 (CTK) – The Czech Chamber of Deputies will discuss the UN global compact for migration on Wednesday, it decided on the proposal of the Communists (KSCM) today, though their previous proposal to put the compact on the agenda failed to make it through on Thursday. The global compact was approved by ...
Prague, Sept 13 (CTK) – The Czech opposition Communists (KSCM) and Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) have failed to push through a proposal that the Chamber of Deputies discuss the UN Global Compact for Migration at its current session. KSCM deputy Zdenek Ondracek wanted the debate to show the cabinet’s position on the compact, ...
Prague, Aug 28 (CTK) – The opposition anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement will not back the latest 2019 state budget draft with a 40-billion crown deficit announced recently by Finance Minister Alena Schillerova (for ANO), which is by 10 billion lower, it said in its statement for CTK today. The SPD says ...
Brno, Aug 24 (CTK) – The Czech Supreme Administrative Court (NSS) has received a proposal to halt or dissolve the activity of the anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy movement – Tomio Okamura (SPD) submitted by the SPD’s Brno branch ex-member Kamil Papezik, who told CTK today he thought that some members breached SPD’s statutes. ...
Prague, Aug 9 (CTK) – The lawyer for Jaroslav Stanik, a former official of the Czech anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) sentenced over a hate speech about Jews, Roma and gays, has filed a recourse against the court decision, Czech Television (CT) said today. On August 1, the Prague 1 district court imposed ...
Prague, July 31 (CTK) – A Prague district court has punished former secretary of the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement, Jaroslav Stanik, for hate speech over the statements he made in parliament about Jews, Roma and gays, the Czech Television (CT) public broadcaster reported today. The court issued the respective penal order ...
Prague, July 23 (CTK) – Former secretary of the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement, Jaroslav Stanik, will be tried in court over the statements he made in parliament about Jews, Roma and gays, Prague District 1 State Attorney’s Office head Jan Lelek told CTK today. Lelek said Stanik was charged with the ...
