New classes could be set up in high schools to help education facilities with a high number of applicants, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) announced on Thursday. Fiala met with representatives of the association of Czechia’s regions and Education Minister …
Polish General Waldemar Skrzypczak's statement calling on Poland to support a possible mass rebellion in Belarus interferes with the internal affairs of other countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Read more here. Speaking to Polsat News on Tuesday, …
Czechia will refrain from the Council of the EU vote on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, the Czech government decided on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the Council Decision ratifying the Convention was approved by COREPER. The final Council vote should be …
Slovakia’s parliament is debating whether to ask the European Commission to fire its Head of Representation in Slovakia, Vladimír Sucha, over comments about Slovakia’s DNA having broken chromosomes when it comes to gender equality. Sucha spoke at a conference promoting women’s …
The European Commission sent Poland six formal notices to pay the outstanding daily fine for failing to comply with the EU Court of Justice’s decision obliging Poland to dismantle the newly-established and highly-criticised Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court, Polish …
If the Czech Republic held a referendum on leaving the EU today, 63% of Czechs would vote to remain, a fresh survey conducted in one of the EU's most eurosceptic countries found. The survey was conducted by the Europeum Institute and …
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, adopted a resolution calling on the government to ban Polish lorries from entering the country. The resolution followed an earlier statement by Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who said Poland must …
Slovakia has seen a rapid increase in employees coming from India in 2022, with numbers quadrupling to 1,350 as the IT and automotive sectors, particularly, are struggling with staff shortages. The Labour, Social Affairs and Family Office confirmed the spike, noting …
Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin’s appeal to impose sanctions on Poland and demand Warsaw repay for post-war Soviet investments are typical propaganda, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday. In a statement, Volodin, chairman of Russian parliament’s lower house …
A coalition of eight countries, led by Czechia, has come together to voice criticism against the proposed Euro 7 car emission standards.
National Bank of Slovakia Governor Peter Kažimír will appear in court on bribery charges in July after the Constitutional Court dismissed his complaint over the speed of the legal process. Kažimír was guilty of bribery for acts committed when he was …
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy being called to apologise for the killing of thousands of Poles at the hands of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during the Second World War is “unacceptable”, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Zvarych, said following …
The participation of Andrej Babiš, former prime minister and ANO party leader, at a conservative conference in Budapest, will be addressed at the ALDE congress, attended by Liberals and Democrats from across Europe, in Stockholm this week. Babiš attended the Conservative …
Migration has become so politicised in recent decades that even the successful integration of refugees from Ukraine will not change the European approach to people from other continents, according to the predictions of Prague-based experts. The Temporary Protection Directive was activated …
Following the gruesome death of an eight-year-old child at the hands of his stepfather, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reopened the topic of reinstating the death penalty, with over half of Poles supporting the idea despite the legal impossibility of implementing …
Former prime minister Robert Fico accused Western allies of ‘supporting the killings’ in Ukraine by handing the tanks or other military equipment to the Kyiv government. "It's a blatant support of killings without results," Fico said at a press briefing on …
Nine resolutions from the socialist Czechoslovakia era, which have allowed Russian diplomats to use land in the country free of charge, have been cancelled by the government on Wednesday. The Foreign Ministry proposed the cancellation of resolutions from 1970 to 1982 …
No local government that adopted an ‘LGBT ideology-free resolution in Poland will be eligible for EU cohesion funds due to concerns over appropriate spending, French MEP Pierre Karleskind tweeted, citing the EU Commission. Since 2019, five Polish regions and over 190 …
As relations between Russia and the EU continue to deteriorate, business activities by Russians have increased in Hungary, and a recent discovery shows that four of these companies had connections to intelligence services and Moscow’s political elite. As of March 2023, …
President Zuzana Čaputová promised to announce whether she would run for re-election in the next year’s elections sooner than her predecessor Andrej Kiska did, but the deadline to do that was on 15 May – the day Kiska announced he …
We are on the verge of a lithium revolution, said Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who envisions the possibility of Czechia embarking on lithium mining within its territory, potentially becoming a significant contributor to Europe’s overall energy security.
Ukrainian refugees are temporarily returning home to receive sexual and reproductive healthcare after finding their options limited in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, while others seek illegal solutions, according to a study published by the Centre for Reproductive Rights. A study …
Local trade unions declared an emergency strike on Monday in response to the government’s austerity package, which includes increasing corporate taxes and lowering public sector salaries. The government presented its austerity package on Thursday with the aim of consolidating public finances. …
Poland received its first HIMARS rocket systems from the US, with prospects for 20 systems to be delivered by the end of the year, the Defence Ministry announced on Monday. The system, first ordered by Warsaw in 2019, has been used …
