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Forces undermining democracy in the Czech Republic

March 20, 2020 • by The League of Human Rights

Hundreds of people protested against “forces undermining democratic institutions in the Czech Republic” in Prague on Sunday. The movement is demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Babiš over his alleged conflict of interest, and recently opposed t...
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Czech Republic and EU Funds: Development Ministry to Ask EC for More Time to Reply to PM Babiš Audit

July 25, 2019 • by The League of Human Rights

The Czech Republic will ask the EC to extend its deadline for replying to a draft report on Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s (ANO) alleged conflicts of interest when drawing EU funds. The EC's preliminary audit found Mr. Babiš to be in conflict of i...
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250,000 Czechs on the Streets in Biggest Protest Since the Fall of Communism

June 27, 2019 • by The League of Human Rights

The prime minister of the Czech Republic has said that he "doesn't really understand" why people are protesting after hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Prague on Monday. In a statement on his website, Prime Minister Andrej Babis denied alleg...
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Czech PM Tries to Halt his Prosecution for Embezzling EU Funds

April 25, 2019 • by The League of Human Rights

Police investigators may press charges against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and members of his family over suspicions that they illegally tapped into a 50 million crown EU subsidy ten years ago. Babiš has claimed that this is a conspiracy and has ...
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Czech Republic Signals Exit From UN Migration Pact

November 02, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has suggested that his country will withdraw from the United Nations pact on migration. The move, which the European Commission is not happy about, comes after Austria, Hungary and the US also withdrew from the pact. T...
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Poland Comes Out Against EU Border Guard Plan

October 17, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Poland and the Czech Republic are pushing back on EU plans to create a new border force with 10,000 additional guards. The new body would be under the control of Frontex, the EU border agency. But both Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moraiwecki, and Czec...
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- Poland
- Czech Republic
- border
- Frontex
Threat of anti-migrant militias growing in Central Europe

September 05, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

After the far right protests in Chemnitz, the Czech intelligence service, BIS, has voiced alarm over the emergence of armed anti-migrant militias in Czechia. A Czech daily quotes a classified BIS report on a group called the National Home Guard. Czech ...
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Transparency Watchdog Says Babiš Still Controlling Agrofert

August 16, 2018 • by The League of Human Rights

The Czech chapter of Transparency International (TI) has filed a complaint against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš after uncovering information that suggests that although he put his billion-crown conglomerate Agrofert into a trust fund to comply wit...
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- Czech Republic
- prime minister Babis
Czech Court Recognizes Gay Couple as Child's Parents

June 01, 2018 • by The League of Human Rights

At the beginning of May, the Czech Supreme Court acknowledged a decision by a judge in the US state of California, which declared a pair of Czech gay men as the legal parents of a newly born child. The child was born to a surrogate mother in California...
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Czech Republic: Groundbreaking Judgment Helps Those With Disabilities

March 14, 2018 • by The League of Human Rights

The Czech Constitutional Court has issued a judgment that is in many respects a legal breakthrough for the country. The court ruled on 14 February that persons with disabilities who are in a difficult social situation do have a public right to appropri...
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