Czech Defence Minister Lubomír Metnar has reaffirmed his country’s promise to reach the 2 percent of GDP defence spending threshold agreed during the 2014 NATO Summit in Wales. The ability of the Czech Republic to...
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Top court rejects challenge to conflict of interest law “targeting Babiš”
A three-year legal battle came to an end on Tuesday when the Czech Republic’s highest court rejected a challenge to a conflict of interest law. The legislation was dubbed “lex Babiš” for seeming to target...
Civic Democrats’ Miloš Vystrčil becomes new Senate chair
Miloš Vystrčil of the Civic Democratic Party was voted in as the new Speaker of the Senate of the Czech Republic on Wednesday, after receiving 52 of the 76 votes. He ran against Jiří Růžička...
Communist Party chairman in hospital for suspected heart attack
The Chairman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Vojtěch Filip has been taken to the General University Hospital in Prague due to a suspected heart attack, the daily Deník N’s website reported on Wednesday...
Reuters: China threatened to harm Škoda Auto, other big Czech firms over Taiwan visit of late senator
China’s Embassy in Prague had threatened to retaliate against leading Czech companies if a prominent senator went ahead as planned to visit Taiwan, according to a letter dated 10 January reviewed by Reuters. The letter,...
Seznam: Russian paedophile web uploads thousands of photos of Czech children
Thousands of images of Czech children are circulating on a Russian website for paedophiles, the news server Seznam Zprávy reports, following an in-depth investigation of the so called dark web. Many of the images were taken...
Daily news summary 18.2.2020
‘Lex Babiš’ ruling, bird flu outbreak, police seek tram ‘hairdresser’
Constitutional Court rejects proposal to annul ‘Lex Babiš’ conflict of interest law
The Constitutional Court has rejected proposals put forward by President Miloš Zeman and others to annul part of a conflict of interest law popularly known as “Lex Babiš”. The 2017 legislation was so nicknamed as...
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Wednesday should be cloudy with occasional light rain expected in the afternoon. Daytime highs should hover between 2 to 5 degrees Celsius.
Prague Airport handles record 1.05 million passengers in January
Prague’s Václav Havel Airport handled a record 1.05 million passengers in January, almost 80,000 more in annual terms for the month. However, the coronavirus outbreak in China and local major storm Sabine is likely to...