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Prague - Acts of bribery are on the decline in Czech construction, and last year their amount was at its lowest since 2007, according to a survey conducted by CEEC Research among directors of building......

Prague - Jose Ramos Horta, Nobel Peace Prize winner and East Timor ex-president, was listed as a collaborator of the Czechoslovak communist intelligence (StB) and he allegedly supplied the communist......

Prague - A total of 756 counterfeit and altered banknotes and coins of various currencies were seized in the Czech Republic in the first quarter of this year, up by 9 percent from 692 in the same period......

Caslav - The military spending should reach again 1.4 percent of GDP in the medium term, while 2 percent is not necessary, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) told journalists......

Prague - Czech companies and households are not threatened with shortage of gas as the Czech Republic has a reserve of natural gas for 100 days, Prime Minister Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) said......

Prague - The campaign before the weekend election to the European Parliament (EP) has not shown what kind of Europe Czech politicians would like, Ondrej Houska writes in daily Hospodarske noviny (HN)......

Prague - Czech President Milos Zeman has decided to bestow the Order of the White Lion on Briton Nicholas Winton, saviour of hundreds of Jewish children, who is turning 105 today, and he has invited......

Prague - The ANO movement would win the Czech election to the European Parliament closely followed by the Social Democrats (CSSD), according to the latest CVVM agency´s poll released today, which......

Prague - Will ever a system of pan-European political parties, minimally for the needs of the European Parliament election, be created, Jan Machacek asks in daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) today. ......

Terezin - A courageous step and a hand offering gesture, this is how Czech Freedom Fighters head Jaroslav Vodicka appreciated German President Joachim Gauck´s recent visit to the former wartime Jewish......

Prague - Czech Finance Minister and ANO leader Andrej Babis reacted inappropriately to Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka´s (Social Democrats, CSSD) recent lash-out at Pavel Telicka, ANO´s candidate......

Prague - About 300 fans of Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars attended the first Czech meeting of these luxury vehicles in a park in Dubec, Prague´s eastern neighbourhood, in the rainy weather today. ......

Prague - An education minister, whose doctoral thesis does not even reach the level of a Bachelor´s work, can be an authority for teachers or students, Martin Zverina writes about Czech minister Marcel......

Prague - The Czech senior government Social Democrats (CSSD) would come third in the May 23-24 European Parliament (EP) election after ANO and TOP 09, according to a model by Herzmann and Data Collection......

Bratislava - The current crisis in Ukraine poses a serious security risk and the EU and NATO countries should take unified steps in this respect, Czech Defence Minister Martin Stropnicky said at the......

Plzen - A potential halt of supplies of natural gas from Russia via Ukraine does not pose a direct danger for the Czech Republic as there are other supply routes, President Milos Zeman said at the......

Temelin - Czech nuclear power plant Temelin´s operations are in accordance with criteria of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the plant has no fundamental safety problems, Temelin......

Prague - Old patterns of behaviour are reviving in the West, Zbynek Petracek writes in Lidove noviny (LN), analysing Western countries' reaction to the latest developments in Ukraine and Russia. ......

Prague - The Czech economy stagnated in Q1 2014 compared with the previous quarter owing to a drop in revenue from excise duty on tobacco products, caused by pre-stocking at the end of last year, according......

Bratislava - The Visegrad Four countries (V4, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) should increase their cooperation in defence, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Social Democrats,......