Politics

For the first time since 2015, the Czech government will not allocate any money to the regions for the repair and reconstruction of Class II and III roads, which fall under regional administration. This is stated in a letter from Transport

The head of Lithuanian intelligence, Kaunas, has said that Russia is considering unconventional strikes on critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, using drones of Ukrainian origin to carry them out. According to him, Moscow could deploy

Prague police have determined that MP Filip Turek (Motorists for Themselves party) is indeed the author of dozens of hateful Facebook posts that he previously tried to pass off as fake or the result of a hacking attack. According to a polic

At the closing ceremony of the nationwide "Big Changes" competition in Krasnoyarsk, held on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin briefly kicked a ball around with participants. Footage of the moment quickly spread across social media, a

Andrej Babiš's government is preparing a significant state budget deficit for next year, but is doing its best to avoid drawing voters' attention to it. According to experts, the cabinet plans to scrap the budgetary rules altogether, while

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

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),