PRAGUE (AP) — Opposition parties in the Czech Republic have cemented their dominant position in Parliament’s upper house after winning big in an election for a third of the seats in the Senate, as the ruling centre-left coalition government suffered a setback.
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic and neighbouring Slovakia have registered big jumps in new coronavirus infections, setting a new record for the fourth straight day.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – The Czech Senate president met with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen and other top government officials Thursday during a rare trip by a foreign dignitary to the self-ruled democratic island that rival China called an “open provocation.”
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – The Czech Republic’s top legislator on Monday told an economic forum in Taiwan that freedom and democracy are the basis of prosperity, on the second day of a visit that has drawn vows of retaliation from Beijing.
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has recorded its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases.
PRAGUE – A coal mine in the north-eastern Czech Republic near the border with Poland has halted work after a major Covid-19 outbreak among the miners.
The Czech government is encouraging countries around the world to slow the spread of the coronavirus through mask-wearing by the general public.
PRAGUE (AP) – The Czech capital, Prague, on Monday signed a partnership agreement with the capital of Taiwan, Taipei – three months after cancelling a similar deal with Beijing and angering the Chinese government.
Six have were killed and several more injured after a gunman opened fire inside a hospital in the Czech city of Ostrava on Tuesday morning.
PRAGUE (AP) – The Iron Curtain was more than just a figure of speech: Communist regimes set up thousands of miles of heavily-guarded, electrified barbed wire fencing to completely isolate Eastern Europe from the West.
European populists have warned that the EU has the same “goal” as the former Soviet Union, which is to reduce the power of the nation-state.
The President of the Czech Republic has suggested that Brexit is the fault of the European Union, that Britain’s referendum on leaving the bloc should not be re-run for a decade, and that the British government under Theresa May is making itself increasingly ridiculous.
An Islamic preacher in Prague has come under severe criticism after telling Muslims they should equip themselves with weapons following the Christchurch attack in New Zealand.
The Czech Republic is launching a programme to pay non-EU migrants to go home, noting that funding the scheme would cost taxpayers “far less” than if migrant groups targeted remained in the country.
Europeans “have the right to defend our borders, our lifestyle, our heritage and our culture,” the Czech prime minister has said, attacking “divisive” EU plans to foist mass third world migration on the bloc’s eastern states.
Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš has condemned the past approach of Merkel’s Germany and the European Union to illegal immigration, branding it a “threat to European civilisation”.
Anti-mass migration national leaders in Central Europe and Italy are openly defying Germany’s Angela Merkel, who is facing political oblivion amid an asylum scandal and threats by Bavarian conservatives to walk out of her coalition government.
Czech president Miloš Zeman has put his name to a petition opposing an EU diktat which would clamp down on legal gun-owners and backed a constitutional amendment which would guarantee citizens’ right to keep arms for self-defence and protection of the homeland.
Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, supported by the Czech Republic and Romania, blocked an EU motion condemning President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, according to Israeli news anchor Barak Ravid.
Czech police arrested six Algerians after reports of them gang-raping a 35-year-old Irish tourist in a Prague hotel, forcing the police to break down the door of the hotel room when one suspect refused to come out.
Self-loathing politicians and academics in the West should could learn much from the patriotic governments of Central Europe and the proud, self-confident societies they have fostered, writes Geert Wilders.
The reelection of anti-mass migration eurosceptic Miloš Zeman to the Czech presidency has caused panic in Brussels, with a referendum on the Slavic country’s EU membership possibly on the cards.
(POLITICO) — Czech President Miloš Zeman fought off a strong challenge from political novice Jiří Drahoš to win a second five-year term as head of state.
President Zeman has won the first round of the Czech presidential elections on a platform of opposition to mass migration and radical Islam, reconciliation with Russia, and unwavering support for Israel.
The President of the Czech Republic has warned that Europe’s values are being “jeopardised by a culture of hatred that is incompatible with ours”, and said “Israel and its heroism are a model and encouragement for us.”
Czech President Milos Zeman on Saturday accused EU states of being “cowards” in their response to his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Czech president Miloš Zeman has said Europeans should “have the courage to invest in our own guns” in order to guard against international terrorism, like millions of U.S. citizens have.
The President of the Czech Republic has urged Europe to reject illegal economic migrants, warning that mass migration to the West will only drain their homelands of talent and consign them to “permanent backwardness”.
Witold Waszczykowski says Poland will welcome migrants from its poor and conflict-stricken European neighbours, but will resist the European Union’s efforts to impose a compulsory quota of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East.
A senior EU politician has told the BBC that Britain can expect a Brexit agreement “much broader and deeper” than the EU-Canada trade deal.
Andrej Babis, tipped to become the next Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, has backed the government’s decision to fight the European Union’s attempts to impose a compulsory migrant quota on the country. “The biggest added value of the European
Czech President Miloš Zeman has confirmed he will run for a second term.
PRAGUE (AP) — A court in the Czech Republic has convicted a Czech man of an attempt to join the Islamic State militants in Syria and sentenced him to three years and three months in prison. The regional court in
PRAGUE (AP) — Explosions in a Czech machinery plant injured a total of 19 people with three of them in critical condition, officials said on Thursday. Police spokeswoman Hana Kaizarova said the first explosion occurred around 11 a.m. (1000 GMT)
Contents: Egypt-Saudi deal for Red Sea bridge triggers massive protests in Cairo; Migrant traffic from Libya to Italy surges; Czech Republic debates adopting the short name ‘Czechia’
Europe is in the midst of the “most serious crisis since World War II” thanks to weak European Union (EU) elites letting in over a million migrants, former Czech President Vaclav Klaus has said. In a robust speech at the
The Czech Republic on Thursday said it was tired of its long and unwieldy name and would like to be called “Czechia” from now on. “We recommend using the single-word name in foreign languages in situations when it’s not necessary
