Communist party leader Vojtěch Filip has come under fire for linking the growing price of pork on the market to the closure of the Lety pig farm in South Bohemia, which stood on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp for Romanies. The Museum of Romany Culture, which had been pushing for the ...
Prague, Aug 14 (CTK) – Czech opposition parties criticise Communist Party (KSCM) leader Vojtech Filip for his statement in the British daily The Guardian by which he indirectly blamed Ukrainians for the 1968 military invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies. They accuse Filip of twisting the historical facts and liken his words to ...
Prague, July 10 (CTK) – The right-wing opposition criticises the Czech government of Andrej Babis (ANO) for bringing the Communists to power for the first time since the 1989 fall of the communist regime and will not vote confidence in it in the Chamber of Deputies, the opposition leaders said today. The Communists (KSCM) ...
Prague, July 9 (CTK) – Along with Czech President Milos Zeman, PM Andrej Babis (ANO), Interior Minister Jan Hamacek (Social Democrats, CSSD), heading diplomacy temporarily, and Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar (for ANO) will attend the NATO summit in Brussels this week, the Foreign Ministry announced today. Zeman will leave for Brussels on Wednesday, July ...
Prague/Sofia, July 7 (CTK) – The ruling ANO movement and the Social Democrats (CSSD) will sign their government coalition pact on Tuesday, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) told journalists today. On the same day, the agreement with the Communists on their tolerating the government will be signed as well, he added. On ...
Prague, June 30 (CTK) – The Communist (KSCM) lawmakers will actively support the establishment of the minority government of ANO and the Social Democrats (CSSD) in the confidence vote in the lower house of Czech parliament, KSCM leader Vojtech Filip said after his party leadership confirmed the decision today. “The government policy statement includes ...
Prague, June 18 (CTK) – The Czech Communist Party’s (KSCM) influence on ANO leader Andrej Babis and his nascent cabinet has been growing, with the KSCM forcing Babis into a number of concessions, most recently in health care, writes weekly Tyden out today. Since the 1990s, Czech politicians have pondered on introducing voluntary health ...
Prague, June 17 (CTK) – The Social Democrat (CSSD) MEP Poche as a foreign minister is an insurmountable obstacle to the toleration of the ANO-CSSD government by the Communists (KSCM), their chairman Vojtech Filip said on public Czech TV (CT) today. He added that he had informed CSSD chairman Jan Hamacek about this earlier, ...
Prague, June 17 (CTK) – The Social Democrats (CSSD) have done the maximum in the talks on a coalition government with ANO, they have nowhere to retreat and the dispute about ministerial posts might end the government plan, their chairman Jan Hamacek said on Prima TV today. Hamacek said so in connection with the ...
