Politics

10:53 am | October 14, 2018

Election shifts balance of power in Czech Senate

Passing new laws is about to get more challenging for the ruling coalition after their ...

2:09 pm | October 5, 2018

Polls Open As Czech Senate, Municipal Election Days Begins

Czechs vote to elect their local councilmen and one-third of the senators as the balloting ...

1:31 am | April 11, 2018

President Zeman Advises Babis to Side With SPD, Communists

President Milos Zeman sees a way out for the Prime Minister Andrej Babis and advises ...

10:08 pm | April 9, 2018

Thousands Protest Against Prime Minister Babis

Thousands of Czechs were rallying in the streets of 20 major cities Monday calling on ...

3:31 am | March 10, 2018

Czech President Zeman Sworn-In For Second Term

The pro-Russian, pro-Chinese and anti-immigration leader of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, has been sworn-in ...

9:40 pm | January 12, 2018

Czech Republic Votes To Elect New President

Nine candidates are to be chosen from as polls open Friday for the people of ...

1:26 am | December 11, 2016

MEP Petr Mach resigns as leader of Free Citizens’ Party

MEP Petr Mach has announced that he is resigning as leader of the Free Citizens' ...

1:57 am | January 27, 2016

How to get rid of prime minister? With a gun, Czech president jokes

There can't be a Czech, who wouldn't agree that the Czech Republics' first-ever directly elected ...

5:01 pm | January 22, 2016

MEP Miloslav Ransdorf dies aged 62

Miloslav Ransdorf has reportedly died Friday afternoon after suffering a stroke. The 62-years-old communist MEP ...

6:01 pm | January 17, 2016

Communist MPs travel to Donetsk People’s Republic

Two communist MPs travelled to separatist´s region, stirred up Ukrainian protest.

12:17 pm | December 5, 2015

Czech Communist Party MEP detained in Switzerland

Czech Communist Party MEP Miloslav Ransdorf and 3 other Slovak men have been arrested after ...

10:57 pm | October 5, 2015

Karel Schwarzenberg won’t run for TOP09 party leader re-election

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel Schwarzenberg, announced Monday that he will not seek re-election ...

6:12 pm | April 16, 2015

Former PM Stanislav Gross loses his battle with ALS, dies aged 45

Stanislav Gross, the Czech Republic's former prime minister, has passed away. The 45-year-old member of ...

6:33 pm | December 18, 2014

Czechs honor 3rd Havel’s death anniversary

Václav Havel - a writer, philosopher, dissident during former communist regime and the very first democratically elected ...

12:50 am | December 11, 2014

People give passing grade to president Zeman

Ever since Miloš Zeman became a president, opinions on his behavior as a president was ...

1:25 am | November 17, 2014

Iranian representatives to visit Czech republic

On the anniversary of the velvet revolution (November 17th), Iranian deputies and representatives will visit Czech ...

1:34 am | November 6, 2014

Police wants Pešák’s immunity lifted for him to face charges

Senate received a request to lift immunity of Milan Pešák, a blind senator for Civic Democratic Party. Police ...

8:55 pm | November 3, 2014

Great Zeman controversy continues

Sunday debate with the Czech president has raged through the internet and other media and ...

3:52 pm | November 2, 2014

President Zeman swears in radio interview

During an interview with Radiožurnál, president Zeman gave the discussion on new governmental coalition an ...

10:44 am | October 19, 2014

Complete lack of interest accompanies Senate elections

One week after the communal elections, with little over fifty percent of citizen participation, comes ...

12:04 am | October 14, 2014

First complaints and controversies of Czech communal elections

The first part of october elections weren't over for more than two days and first complaints ...

10:17 pm | October 10, 2014

Communal elections starts today

Every two years, the citizens of Czech republic visit the voting rooms to elect one third of ...

8:41 pm | October 8, 2014

Attempt to legalize prostitution propably won’t pass

The house of commons is currently discussing a law, which would make prostution legal. Even ...

12:57 am | October 2, 2014

Vehicle owners to be able to register personalized license plates by 2016

Chamber of Deputies approved proposal of Czech Minister of Transport,  Antonín Prachař,  to extend date when amendatory ...

9:08 pm | September 20, 2014

Czech chief-of-staff elected chairman of NATO Military Committee

One of the current highest military authority in NATO, Danish general Knud Bartels, is going ...

11:41 pm | August 31, 2014

Czech MP Huml: CIA shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

Stanislav Huml, a member of Parliament of the Czech Republic for Czech Social Democratic Party, ...

10:49 pm | August 31, 2014

Would Czech politicians pass citizenship tests?

After a law allowing dual citizenship and a significant increase of immigrants requesting one, the ...

11:34 pm | July 29, 2014

Ministry of Health seeks to strengthen alcohol and tobacco regulations

As soon as in January 2016 smoking in restaurants could be banned across the Czech Republic as ...