Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said that Czechia may one day have to defend its border to keep migrants from Western countries from coming in, if the situation in Europe continues to develop the same way. He said the country is, of course, pre
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that absolutely any country in the world, including Moscow's partners in Central Asia, could become a victim of Western geopolitical expansion and of “color revolutions” orchestrated by the We
Czech President Petr Pavel has disclosed how much his trip to Morocco and his return home to vote in the elections cost him. In a statement he stressed that the trip was private and that the presidential office neither paid for nor organise
In local referendums held alongside the municipal and Senate elections, residents of 20 of 21 Czech municipalities came out against building wind farms. Only in one municipality, Detřichov in the Svitavy district, did people vote in favour
In July, the Czech Ministry of the Environment closed the case of the Heřmanice dump in Ostrava, where almost 600,000 tonnes of waste lie, without naming a culprit. The ministry deemed the key expert reports less reliable because they lacke
Bulgaria has become the only European Union country to support the oil agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Prime Minister Rumen Radev's position runs counter to that of the other EU leaders, a Ukrainian news agency reported.“
Czech President Petr Pavel returned from his holiday in Morocco on Thursday evening. He flew home not on a private plane but on a Ryanair low-cost flight with a layover in Marseille, iDNES.cz reports. He left the Moroccan airport of Nador a
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said ahead of the EU summit in Brussels that the European Commission's proposals for new own resources for the Union's next seven-year budget are “absolutely unacceptable” for the country. He objects to the
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has said that the new sources of EU budget revenue proposed by the European Commission are “absolutely unacceptable” for the country. According to him, Brussels wants to take from the Czech Republic part of
The Czech Defense Ministry under Jaromír Zůna (SPD) is reconsidering its stance toward associations with which the department had ended cooperation over rule violations or scandalous steps. In mid-September, on September 17, ministry repres
Prague’s ODS is ready to join a city coalition with STAN, the election winner, and is aiming for a finance-related post. This was stated by Portlík of ODS, whose Spolu pro Prahu bloc finished second in the election. Two options are currentl
Ecologist Jan Moravec is criticising a law being prepared in Czechia to speed up strategic measures against water extremes, that is, floods and droughts. In his column, he calls a number of the bill's provisions controversial, and says some