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 19 (CTK) – Global pacts on refugees and migration are neither legally binding nor enforceable, Czech acting foreign minister Jan Hamacek (Social Democrats, CSSD) told the Chamber of Deputies today. No new duties or obligations arise from them for the Czech Republic, Hamacek, the Social Democrat leader who is also the interior ...
Prague, June 30 (CTK) – The Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) certainly will not support the new cabinet of ANO and the Social Democrats (CSSD) because PM Andrej Babis formed a pro-Brussels, pro-immigration coalition instead of a patriotic government, SPD leader Tomio Okamura told today’s issue of daily Pravo. “We can never support such ...
Brno, June 20 (CTK) – The Czech Office Supervising Financial Management of Political Parties has imposed a 100,000-crown fine on the anti-EU populist Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement for four minor offences related to its election campaign, the Seznam Zpravy server has reported. The SPD of Tomio Okamura was fined for mistakes in ...
Prague, June 12 (CTK) – The mainstream rightist extremist groupings are no longer politically relevant and their agenda was most efficiently adopted by the anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), according to the latest report drawn up by the Czech Interior Ministry and released today. However, the SPD cannot be denoted as extremist according ...
Prague, May 30 (CTK) – The Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) deals with similar issues like right-wing extremists and takes similar positions on them, but sometimes the SPD’s statements are even more radical, the Interior Ministry says in a report yet to be officially released, Aktualne.cz has written. The text of the annual ...
Bratislava, May 9 (CTK) – The Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) cannot succeed thanks to the coalition with Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ ANO that will depend on the Communists, the Slovak paper Dennik N writes today. On Monday, Babis and Social Democrat leader Jan Hamacek agreed on the text of the coalition pact that will ...
Prague, May 4 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman assists Russian propaganda, Czech right-wing parties’ representatives said today in reaction to Zeman’s statement that the Novichok nerve poison that was used to attack former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in Britain in March, was produced in the Czech Republic last year. The only politicians to back ...
