The Czech Ministry of Health, led by Adam Vojtěch (ANO), reportedly carried out a secret, multi-week audit this spring to check what employees were doing on their work computers. According to officials, the monitoring took place even outsid
Czechia has now missed the deadline for transposing the EU directive on equal pay for men and women by more than a month. The requirements were supposed to be incorporated into Czech law back in June, yet the government has not even begun d
Martin Kuba, governor of the South Bohemian Region who recently left the ranks of ODS, is gearing up for this autumn's municipal and Senate elections with his new political project, "Naše Čechy" (Our Bohemia). According to various polling a
The Motoristé sobě (Motorists for Themselves) party has decided not to run in this autumn's Czech Senate elections, opting instead to back candidates from its coalition partners, ANO and SPD. The party had initially considered fielding a si
A week ago, Filip Turek, an MP from the Czech "Motorists" party, boasted on Instagram that during his holiday he had visited "numerous strategic enterprises" in the Moravian-Silesian Region. Journalists have since discovered that this actua
The case involving hateful posts by MP Filip Turek has been definitively closed, though this doesn't mean the politician didn't write them. Prague 4 district prosecutor Jan Vychyta announced this on Monday, stressing that neither the police
Czech Culture Ministry's New Strategy "Tailored for a Specific Government" — Document Sparks Outrage
Last week the Czech Ministry of Culture sent a draft government cultural policy strategy out for interdepartmental review. The document was authored by Barbora Šťastná, chief of staff to Culture Minister Oto Klempíř (Motoristé sobě party),
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree recalling Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, Oksana Stefanishina. The document does not state the reasons for her dismissal, reports the Russian-language service of the BBC.
Michal Šmarda, former chairman of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), will file his candidacy papers for the Czech Senate elections on Tuesday, he announced on Monday. Since leaving ČSSD, Šmarda has been politically unaffiliated and c
The police decision to close the investigation into MP Filip Turek (Motorists party) over hate speech posted on social media took legal effect on Saturday. This was announced on Monday by Jan Vychyta, head of the supervising Prague 4 Distri
In Jindřichův Hradec, the "Velký křížek pro Hradec" coalition — bringing together SPD, Motoristé, Svobodní, Pro and Trikolóra under MP Libor Vondráček — has built its election campaign around the name of the late ODS politician Jaroslav Kub
Czech politician Filip Turek of the Motorists party boasted on social media about a nearly CZK 9.5 billion subsidy for building a new electric arc furnace at the Nová Huť steel plant in Ostrava, presenting it as a personal achievement of hi