Politics

Sensational initiative by the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic (AmCham), which called for a quick law reform on public tenders. “Corruption may be banished only when society – including the business community – demands it. ” said Weston Stacey, director of...

The Eu Commission has asked for an explanation over the purchase of the new transport planes by the Czech Air Force “My objective is to restore to the Czech Armed Forces, the prestige which had been ruined by a series of scandals and suspicious...

Exclusive interview with Petr Nečas, new Prime Minister of the Czech Republic “I am not a saint, but I may tell you out loud that I am not one who steals or who may be subject to bribe”. A forty-six year old Moravian from...

After the Greek financial tragedy, outsiders from the Eurozone, including the Czech Republic, have slowed down their race. The safe haven of the Eurozone does not seem so appealing anymore to many Central Eastern European Countries. The Greek crisis, which has cast doubts on...

Almost certain the relative majority of the Social Democrats. Among the many possible scenarios, also the return to power of the Communists, just over twenty years from the Velvet revolution. Just over a month before the elections for the renewal of the Chamber of...

Diffidence by the Czechs towards Europe. A bluff or a question of integration? From enhanced cooperation to de facto exclusion: how to enable growth of the Union despite divisions It is quite understandable that Czechs fear integration which necessarily includes rules. Frankly speaking, though,...

Obama and Medvedev have signed, in the Czech capital, the Treaty on strategic arms reduction. For some politicians it represents a setback to the role of the Country in Us foreign policy. The American president intended to reassure the leaders of the Central European...

The Civic Democratic leader (Ods) Mirek Topolanek, as a premier, defined last year as “Bolshevik” the proposal put forward by the Social Democratics (Cssd) and also supported by the Communists (Kscm) and by the Christian Democrats (Kdu-Csl) – to prohibit by law the privatisation...

To celebrate the anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, Germany pays homage to the hero of the Velvet Revolution Berlin – “International solidarity strongly contributed towards helping the dissent of East Europe. This is why today we must sustain the fight of populations...

For a deeper insight into the extraordinary chapter of history of our continent, represented by the Fall of the Berlin Wall, we turned to Filippo Maria Pandolfi, Italian (Finance, Treasury, Industry and Agriculture) minister for many years and then, from 1989 to 1993, Vice-president...