Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motoristé) says he cannot imagine the Russian anthem being played on Czech soil while the war in Ukraine continues. He made the remark on CNN Prima News when asked about Russian hockey teams taking part
The STAN movement is polling at more than 23% in Kantar's October survey for Czech Television. The SPD party gets 5.5%, clearing the 5% threshold for entering the Chamber of Deputies by the narrowest of margins. Motoristé fall short of the
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said on Thursday at the Prague Security Dialogue conference that Czechia had managed to sell Serbia six L-39 Skyfox combat trainer aircraft. However, according to the Serbian portal Tango Six, Belgrade has
The ANO movement, which won the last Chamber of Deputies election with 34.51%, received 29.9% in the November poll by the NMS agency. That is 1.1 percentage points more than in October, but still below 30%. STAN is in second place (17.8%) a
On Tuesday, the Agriculture Committee of the Czech Chamber of Deputies backed a proposal by ANO MP Karel Tureček to raise the fee for a cubic metre of groundwater used for public water supply from 2 to 7 crowns, an increase of 250%. For oth
The mother of Czech first lady Eva Pavlová, and thus the mother-in-law of President Petr Pavel, lives on the grounds of Prague Castle. The head of state’s spokesman, Daniel Drake, confirmed this to the outlet. At the same time, he denied a
Employees of Czech Television and Czech Radio went on strike on Tuesday over the government’s plan to abolish licence fees for public broadcasters. Sociologists are confident that more than 100,000 people will attend the “Million Moments fo
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has said that the strike at Czech Television and Czech Radio, and the rallies held in their support, will not change the ruling coalition's plans: the licence fee for broadcasting will be abolished regardle
MEP Kateřina Konečná is leaving the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM), of which she has been a member for 21 years. She said she did not want to harm the party after the scandal over her joining the Patriots for Europe group in
The European Commission is closely monitoring the bill to abolish fees for Czech Television (ČT) and Czech Radio (ČRo) and is in contact with the Czech authorities. Commission spokesman Lammert said the Czech side has already replied to a l
Politician Turek posted two photos of his master’s diploma on social media and soon deleted both: people had found typos on them and differences between the two images. The trigger was criticism of his claim to be a “diplomat by training.”T
Staff at Czech Television and Czech Radio have been on strike since midnight to protest the government's plan to move the funding of public media under the state budget. Both outlets are operating in a limited mode, and the strike will last