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Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski
Milos Zeman was sworn in as the president of the Czech Republic on 8 March. He announced the names of his closest aides and presented his priorities for the next five years several days afterwards. Vratislav Mynar was appointed head of the…
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski
On 27 February, the Slovenian parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the centre-right government led by Janez Jansa. The task of forming a new cabinet has been entrusted to Alenka Bratusek, the leader of the left-wing Positive…
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski
For three weeks now a heated debate has been under way in the Czech Republic concerning a scandal involving solar power plants. It has been claimed that the state has lost hundreds of millions of euros due to this. The results of the audit…
Analyses | | Jan Muś, Jakub Groszkowski
On 7 February the Czech energy company CEZ entered into arbitration against Albania with regard to the fact that Albania revoked the distribution license of CEZ Shperndarje (76% of shares held by CEZ, 24% held by the Albanian state), which…
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski
The former Czech left-wing prime minister, Milos Zeman, won the presidential election, defeating Karel Schwarzenberg, the present deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, in the runoff on 25-26 January. Their support levels…
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski
On 15 January, Slovakia’s state-owned nuclear company JAVYS and the Czech state-owned energy corporation CEZ signed a memorandum with Russia’s Rosatom, which envisages Rosatom being granted access to complete documentation concerning the…
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski
On 14 January, Prime Minister Petr Necas opened the Gazelle gas pipeline at the Czech-German border in the presence of representatives from Germany and Russia. Gazelle is the extension of Nord Stream’s branch running through the Czech…
Analyses | | Mateusz Gniazdowski, Jakub Groszkowski
In the first round of the first universal presidential election in the Czech Republic held on 11-12 January, the former left-wing prime minister, Milos Zeman, came first with 24.21% of the vote. He finished only slightly ahead of the…
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski
The Czech Republic was the only European country to oppose Palestine being granted the status of a non-member observer state at the UN General Assembly on 29 November. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that although it…
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski
In October regional elections were held in the Czech Republic and one third of the seats for the Senate were also voted on. These turned out to be a disaster for the ruling right-wing parties and confirmed the strong position of Social…