Prime Minister Andrej Babiš gave a figure for government advertising in Seznam outlets that is more than 15 times higher than the real one. This follows from Government Office documents obtained under the freedom of information law: in 2022
A column by an author in a Czech outlet delivers a stark warning: Russia is already waging a war against Europe, a hot one beyond Czechia’s borders and a hybrid one inside the country itself. This is the author’s opinion, not an official po
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Petr Macinka has temporarily banned ministry staff from appearing on Czech Television. The move was prompted by the broadcaster's decision not to invite him and the leaders of four opposition parti
Petřvald, a town between Ostrava and Orlová with 7,500 residents, is the largest independent municipality in Czechia still led by communists. But Mayor Jiří Lukša (KSČM), who is leaving politics after the approaching municipal elections, sa
The Czech Ministry of Agriculture refuses to recover unlawfully paid subsidies from companies in the Agrofert holding: according to the ministry, the legal deadline for doing so has already passed. Last year, then-minister Petr Hladík (KDU-
Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov insulted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the state-run channel Russia 1 and threatened his country with a nuclear strike. The trigger was Merz’s call to stop the fighting in Ukraine and begin peace
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš clashed with Czech industrialists on Tuesday at the opening of the International Engineering Fair in Brno. Angry, he accused the organizers from the Confederation of Industry and Transport of deliberately cutting
ANO leader Andrej Babiš, during a visit to central Prague, called the situation there “a disgrace to the city”: in his words, beggars, drug addicts and homeless people are a problem that the capital’s current leadership is not solving, even
Czech President Petr Pavel has not changed his decision to skip voting in the municipal elections taking place on Friday and Saturday: his spokesman Daniel Drake confirmed on Wednesday that the decision “still stands.”Pavel left for Morocco
Czech writer Kateřina Tučková has sharply criticized Culture Minister Ota Klempíř after his speech on Tuesday at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where Czechia is this year's guest of honor. In a Facebook post, she called his remarks about writers
On the Belarus-Latvia border this week, a masked armed group tried to force roughly twenty illegal migrants across the frontier and threatened Latvian soldiers, the Latvian broadcaster LSM reports. Latvian servicemen stopped the crossing at
Czech President Petr Pavel set off on a private motorcycle expedition through the Moroccan desert on the very days the country was holding local elections, even though advisers in his circle had repeatedly warned him in advance that the tri