France's presidential election will take place in April 2027, but all of Europe is already talking about it: according to polls, the best chance of winning belongs to Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally party. Her possible
The ANO movement has announced its goal for the Czech local elections of 2026: to match the result from four years ago, when the party won a majority of mayoral posts in the country's major cities. This was stated by ANO's first deputy chai
The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has polled 30% support for the first time in its history, while the ruling Christian Democratic bloc CDU/CSU of Chancellor Friedrich Merz has slumped to a historic low of 18%. These are the
A year ago, Andrej Babiš's ANO party won Czech parliamentary elections, promising voters cheaper mortgages, cheaper petrol and the abolition of some fees. A year on, a popular satirical show about Czech politics has pointed out that some of
Britain’s Green Party, which won six percent of the vote in the 2024 election, passed a resolution at its annual party conference on Sunday defining Zionism as a form of racism. According to Reuters, 1,022 delegates voted in favour and 813
Czech MP Filip Turek, from the Motoristé party, has published an apology to Seznam.cz on Facebook, after earlier accusing the company of secretly letting its employees access users’ email. He published it by order of the Prague Municipal Co
Czech President Petr Pavel will not take part in the municipal elections on 9 and 10 October in his home village of Černouček, as he will be abroad on a private trip during those days. The Castle's communications department announced this o
Early release of prisoners began in Britain on Thursday as authorities try to relieve overcrowded jails. In the first stage, 700 convicts serving sentences of up to 19 months left prison, and in the coming months around 4,500 more people ar
The STEM institute has found that 76 percent of Czechs rate the presidency of Václav Havel, the country’s first president after the 1989 Velvet Revolution, positively — the poll was carried out ahead of the 90th anniversary of the politicia
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and President Petr Pavel met this week to discuss Czechia's possible response if Russia were to attack one of the Baltic states. The issue will be taken up at the next meeting of the State Security Council
Czech MP Turek has officially apologized, under a court ruling, to the environmental movement Hnutí Duha — he had accused the group of causing deaths during a flood and called its members “parasites.” He sent the apology to the movement’s e
On July 1, 2026, Tomislav Stršelec, a department director at the Czech Ministry of the Environment, signed a ruling that cleared the Ostrava-based firm Ridera Bohemia in a case over dumping at the Heřmanice spoil heap in Ostrava. Correspond