Czechia - Czech Prime minister Andrej Babiš is about to face the vote of no confidence today. He will probably handle it just fine but the story behind it is fascinating. It is the story of how Babiš's suspected EU grant fraud…
By Petr Dvořák, editor at the Czech political institute Pravý břeh.
Czechia - The Czech Republic had an election on 2018, Octobre 5 and 6, with municipal elections taking place simultaneously with the first part of the two-rounded senate elections.
Czech municipal elections:…
By Nicolas de Lamberterie.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš supports Orbán and severely disavowed his MEPs - an illustration of the youth of the Visegrád Group 2.0
Czechia - The adoption of the Sargentini report against Hungary (challenged by the Hungarian government because…
Originally published on the Prague Morning.
Czechia - Andrej Babiš has said there is ‘no way’ the Czech Republic will agree to Brussels’ demand that the nation accept a quota of migrants from the third world.
Speaking in the country’s parliament on Thursday,…
Slovakia, Bratislava - For his first official visit abroad, new Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš traveled to Bratislava, Slovakia. Together with his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico, they reaffirmed their desire, within the Visegrád Group, to oppose immigration. But meantime, the situation becomes…
Czechia, Prague - The Czech prime minister announced unexpectedly his government will resign over unexplained business dealings of his rival for the upcoming elections, Andrej Babiš, the country’s finance minister and wealthy businessman.
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Tuesday, May…
Czechia - Under a European Union agreement, Czechia is to take in 81 migrants from Turkish migrant camps. After the terrorist attacks and in particular in neighbouring Germany, some express opposition to the EU agreement
Deputy Prime Minister Andrej Babiš - the…
Central Europe – On June 8, the EU-27 interior ministers finally approved the EU Migration Pact that had first been proposed by the European Commission in 2020. The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, the Swedish social-democrat Ylva Johansson, called this decision “a…
Hungary – After last year’s first European instalment, a second meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was organized in Budapest on May 4–5, 2023. It is no coincidence that the Hungarian capital has again been chosen to host the only…
Czechia – As was foreseen after the main candidates eliminated in the first round of the Czech presidential election endorsed the candidacy of General Petr Pavel against former PM Andrej Babiš, the former won in the second round held last weekend, and…
Czechia – At a press conference held on Saturday, 17 December, on the occasion of the first anniversary of his government taking office , Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala warned that the time of crises (Covid, war in Ukraine,…
Czechia – 21 people initially said they would try their luck in Czechia’s upcoming presidential election. After having gone through the scrutiny of the interior ministry, which had to check, among other things, that each candidate was endorsed by at least twenty…