Czechia – Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš was acquitted on Monday, 9 January, by a Prague court in the “Stork’s Nest” case. The news could not have come at a better time for Babiš, with the first round of the presidential…
Visegrád Group – Fears of a military escalation in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine came true at dawn on Thursday, 24 February, when the Russian army launched an assault on Ukraine. Faced with this situation – unprecedented in Europe since the…
Czechia – Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, in office since 28 November, 2021, has just granted the conservative daily Lidové noviny his first major interview published on Thursday, 10 February. The head of the Czech government addresses in particular the issues of…
Czechia - More than two months after the 8-9 October parliamentary elections which resulted in the victory of the SPOLU (ODS, KDU-ČSL, TOP09) and PirSTAN (Pirates and Mayors) coalitions, and with President Miloš Zeman having finally accepted the “pirate” Jan Lipavský’s appointment…
Poland/Czechia – While the announcement of the upcoming introduction of compulsory Covid-19 vaccinations provokes evermore protests in Austria and Germany, this question is also the subject of debate in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Lewica offers compulsory vaccination
In Poland, where around…
Visegrád Group – On Monday, 29 November, the presidents of Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – János Áder, Andrzej Duda and Zuzana Čaputová – met at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest for a summit of the Visegrád Group’s heads of state,…
Hungary – In view of the sharp rise in fuel prices in recent weeks, the Hungarian government has decided to cap the price of petrol and diesel at 480 forints (about €1.3) per litre from 15 November for at least three months.…
Czechia – In a theme familiar to many in the West, polling predictions failed dramatically as Czechia held its lower-house elections on October 8-9. This time it worked against the populists, as the outcome was poor for incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Babiš…
Poland/Czech Republic – The Czech-Polish negotiations over the Turów open-pit mine do not seem to be leading to an amicable solution as quickly as Poland would like. After announcing – somewhat hastily – on 25 May that he had reached an agreement…
This article was published online by the China-CEE Institute on 18 October 2021.
Czechia - A regular election for the Chamber of Deputies, the lower chamber of the Czech Parliament, was held on October 8–9. The results are interesting for several reasons. The…
Czechia – On 8 and 9 October, the Czechs voted to elect a new parliament. After an extremely close match, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš may not keep his job. The elections also showed that Czech politics is polarised around two personalities, Andrej…
Czech Republic – On Tuesday 3 August, Czech President Miloš Zeman signed into law a bill approved by the Senate on 22 July, according to which Roma women who were forcibly – and illegally – sterilized in the Czech Republic under the…