Politics

Prague instead of Moscow in the UN Human Rights Council

The General Assembly of the United Nations elected the Czech Republic in the seat of the Human Rights Council that was left vacant in April by Russia, which was suspended. The Czech Foreign Minister, Jan Lipavský (Pirates), declared in welcoming the news: “We deserve...

Changes at the top of the Czech National Bank

As of July 1, the new Governor of the Česka Narodni Banka will be Aleš Michl, already a current member of the Council of Čnb, an economist known to be against the growth policy of interest rates that characterized the bank’s actions in recent...

Czechs more in favor of NATO after Ukraine invasion

The percentage of Czechs in favor of the country belonging to the NATO currently touches 80% and has never been so high since 1999, when Prague joined the Atlantic Alliance. This was revealed by a survey created by the Stem agency, in April. Everything...

Babiš yes or no. The Prime Minister plays it all in October.

The management of the Coronavirus and the conflict of interests are weighing on the leader of Ano, but the divisions of the opponents and the presidential support of Zeman are in his favor The false steps that characterized the management of the health crisis...

News Politics – December 2020

The date of the 2021 political elections has been set The elections for the renewal of the Chamber of Deputies, scheduled in the Czech Republic in 2021, will take place on 8 and 9 October, as usual on a Friday and Saturday. This was...

All eyes on the new White House, even from Prague

It is likely that the changing of the guard in Washington will change some international arrangements, especially in an anti-China role. At the centre of the stage are the expansion project of Dukovany and the Three Seas Initiative The handover of power in the White...

Kundera vs Havel fifty years later

A passionate controversy on the ‘68 Praguian events between two masters of Czech history “It was a life that truly resembled to a work of art”. This is the posthumous eulogy dedicated by Milan Kundera to the only Czech who reached the same heights...

Babiš and the risk of political break-down under Coronavirus

Political parties begin to prepare for elections in autumn 2021 The Coronavirus pandemic has a far greater effect than the various anti Babiš square rallies and the same scandals over the Prime Minister’s conflicts of interest From the top to the bottom of the...

From top of the class to donkeys of the pandemic

After the spring successes, the Czech Republic was surprised by the second wave of the coronavirus in the autumn The return of the pandemic at the end of the summer had a decidedly abrupt impact on the Czech Republic, which was, at least initially,...

Prague also against Lukashenko

The Czech Republic moves in support of Belarusian civil society and asks that what happened in 1968 Czechoslovakia is not repeated Vystrčil’s mission to Taiwan, the Navalny case and Pompeo’s visit to Prague are among topics at the fore of Czech foreign policy in...