Nearly half of Czechs — 49% — believe the country lacks a strong, unified parliamentary opposition. That's according to a new opinion poll presented by NMS political analyst Tereza Fridrichová."Voters across the entire political spectrum se
The Czech Ministry of the Environment has completed an internal review of two of its employees, Adam Šejna and František Kubásek, concluding that both had violated the ministry's internal code of ethics. The finding was confirmed by ministr
Czechia is in the grip of intense heat, with meteorologists forecasting temperatures around 35°C again this weekend. The heatwave is accompanied by one of the most severe droughts the country has seen in a decade. Prime Minister and ANO lea
The Czech government office has announced that in the first half of 2025 it paid advisers to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš a total of 2,111,056 crowns — more than former Prime Minister Petr Fiala spent on his advisers during the whole of 2024
The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) has nominated film producer Kamila Zlatuška as its candidate for mayor of Brno in the upcoming municipal elections. She will lead the joint ODS–TOP 09 list in the Czech Republic's second-largest city as the
In the upcoming local elections, the once-influential Czech Social Democrats (SOCDEM) have managed to field just 46 candidate lists under their own name. According to the party, it has joined forces with other politicians in another 123 mun
The draft of a new cultural strategy put forward by Czech Culture Minister Martin Klempíř has drawn sharp criticism from several government ministries as well as from more than 60 professional organisations in the cultural and creative sect
The Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament will convene on 25 August to override President Petr Pavel's veto of the new fiscal responsibility law. This is according to a discussion in which political analysts Michal Komárek and Ondřej
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said in July, following a cabinet meeting, that he sees no point in the country's participation in the so-called "coalition of the willing" — a grouping of states supporting Ukraine in its fight against Rus
Czech Prime Minister and ANO leader Andrej Babiš has backed Health Minister Adam Vojtěch amid a scandal over the monitoring of ministry employees' work computers. According to Babiš, he himself used the services of the same firm back when h
A fresh sociological poll has found that the Czech opposition — ODS, STAN, the Pirates, TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL — received average scores of between 3.2 and 3.7 from voters across seven areas of its work (on a Czech school-grading scale, where 1
Czechs are sharply divided over how well the government is safeguarding the country's defense capability. According to a fresh poll by the NMS agency, 33% of respondents believe the authorities are doing enough for defense, while 31% hold t