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Miloš Zeman and Petr Pavel both want to help Ukraine

The Editorial Board March 10, 2023

Czechia – Each in their own way, the now former Czech president and his successor spoke out in favour of helping Ukraine shortly before Petr Pavel took office on Wednesday, 9 March. The outgoing social-democratic president, Miloš Zeman, received his…

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Growing dissension between Prague and Budapest over Ukraine

The Editorial Board March 7, 2023

Czechia/Hungary – The Visegrád Group appeared for many years as a more or less politically cohesive entity, representing the specific interests of Central Europe against Brussels’ efforts at imposing leftist liberal ideologies upon the whole EU and its drive for ever more…

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Higher than average inflation in V4 countries

The Editorial Board February 23, 2023

Central Europe – The latest published economic figures indicate the persistence of high inflation in Central Europe, particularly in the four countries of the Visegrád Group, with the situation being particularly serious in Hungary. Hungary’s annual inflation at 25.7 percent in January…

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Number of non-European migrants shooting up in Czechia

The Editorial Board February 9, 2023

Czechia – Covid-19, the Russian–Ukrainian war, and the energy crisis had pushed the issue of illegal immigration to the back burner, but Czechia’s newest statistics show that it is still present and getting worse. According to Czech police figures, the…

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Czech president-elect already at odds with Beijing

The Editorial Board February 4, 2023

Czechia – Having just been elected with 58.3% of the vote on 29 January, President-elect Petr Pavel, who will take office on 9 March, has already begun to lay the groundwork for his term of office, especially on the international stage.…

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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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Czechia and Slovakia: Thirty years of a successful divorce

The Editorial Board January 3, 2023

Czechia/Slovakia – On 1 January 1993, three years after the Velvet Revolution, which put an end to almost 42 years of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, the two constituent peoples of that binational state, originally founded in October 1918 and reconstituted in April…

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Czech Prime Minister warns of lasting crises ahead

The Editorial Board December 23, 2022

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,…

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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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