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General Petr Pavel wins Czech presidential election

The Editorial Board January 31, 2023

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…

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Babiš alone against Pavel in Czech election run-off

The Editorial Board January 20, 2023

Czechia – The second round of the Czech presidential elections will take place on 27–28 January with a run-off ballot between General Petr Pavel, who got 35.4% of the vote in the first round, and former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, who came…

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Czech presidential election run-off between Petr Pavel and Andrej Babiš

The Editorial Board January 18, 2023

Czechia – Czech voters were called to the polls on 13 and 14 January to choose a successor to President Miloš Zeman. According to the results published by the Czech press, the two candidates qualifying for the second round of voting on…

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Andrej Babiš acquitted in Stork’s Nest case

The Editorial Board January 12, 2023

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…

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Nine candidates to succeed Miloš Zeman as president of Czechia

The Editorial Board December 14, 2022

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…

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Czechia: compulsory vaccination challenged by senators from the STAN group

The Editorial Board January 2, 2022

Czechia – While Ladislav Dušek, director of the Czech Institute for Health Information and Statistics (ÚZIS), predicts that the Omicron variant could become dominant in the Czech Republic over the coming month, and as the new minister of Health, Vlastimil Válek (TOP09,…

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Poland and V4 acting against absurdities of EU climate policy

Olivier Bault December 23, 2021

Poland – Meeting on 16 December to discuss, among other things, soaring energy prices, the EU-27 were unable to agree on two issues that are crucial to Europe’s future: the CO2 emissions trading system (ETS) and the energy “taxonomy”, that is, the…

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Covid: compulsory vaccination in question in Poland and Czechia

The Editorial Board December 13, 2021

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…

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Andrej Babiš offers to send 150 soldiers to Polish-Belarusian border

The Editorial Board December 13, 2021

Czechia/Poland – Outgoing Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) announced on Tuesday (December 7th) that he would ask the two chambers of the Czech parliament to authorise the sending of 150 Czech soldiers to assist their Polish colleagues on the Polish-Belarusian border…

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Budapest: V4 summit on immigration

The Editorial Board November 25, 2021

Visegrád Group – The heads of governments of the Visegrád Group met on 23 November in Budapest, at the initiative of Poland, to discuss migration issues in the context of the migration crisis at the Polish–Belarusian border. An attempt to destabilise the…

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V4 countries opposed to Green Pact for Europe

The Editorial Board November 6, 2021

Central Europe/European Union – Relations between the Visegrád Group (V4) countries and the European Union’s governing bodies are unlikely to improve in the near future. Besides the issues of non-European illegal immigrants, LGBT rights, and the rule of law, the Green Pact…

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Czech Parliamentary Election Is Over: What Do the Results Say?

Ladislav Zemánek October 21, 2021

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…