Biden’s Meeting With Eastern European Leaders Will Cap His Trip
The nine countries along NATO’s eastern flank are the likeliest targets of another Russian invasion.
Czech Republic
How a Tiny NATO Nation Tackled a Big Problem: Arming Ukraine
Luxembourg’s challenges in buying arms on the open market underscore the struggle to keep Ukraine supplied until sophisticated Western weapons arrive in the spring.
How China’s ‘Gateway to Europe’ Began to Narrow
The Czech Republic, which once courted Beijing in the hope of attracting investment, has soured on China, as have many other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, partly over the war in Ukraine.
Retired NATO Army General Petr Pavel Wins Czech Presidential Election
BBC: Petr Pavel: Ex-general beats populist rival in Czech election Retired Nato general Petr Pavel has been elected as the new president of the Czech Republic, seeing off his populist challenger Andrej Babis. The 61-year-old took 57.6%…
Petr Pavel, former NATO general, wins Czech presidential election
With all the ballots counted by the Czech Statistics Office, Pavel had 58.3 per cent of the vote compared with 42.7 per cent for Babis. Voter turnout was just over 70 per cent.
Pro-western Petr Pavel sweeps to landslide win in race for Czech presidency
Champagne flows as former general defeats billionaire populist rival Andrej Babiš by largest margin in the country’s historyPetr Pavel, a retired general and former senior Nato commander, has swept to the Czech presidency after a landslide victory over…
Czech Voters Going To The Polls Today For The Second Round Of The Presidential Election
BBC: Czechs to vote in second round of presidential election Czech voters are going to the polls on Friday to elect a successor to President Milos Zeman, whose second term ends in March.The second-round runoff between former Prime Minister …
Barbs and beards from Babiš as crunch Czech election test looms
Behind in the polls, the former PM has resorted to a no-holds-barred attack on his presidential rival, Petr PavelThe former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš faces a potentially career-defining reckoning this weekend when voters deliver their verdict i…
‘Like knocking down the Eiffel tower’: battle to save historic Prague bridge
A plan from Czech railways to replace the emblematic landmark with a modern structure is facing an impassioned backlashA historic Prague railway bridge, whose importance to the city’s landscape has been compared to the Eiffel tower in Paris, has been e…
Czech presidential election: Babiš likens rival to Putin after first-round defeat
Ex-PM ratchets up rhetoric after surprise loss to former army chief and Nato military chair Gen Petr PavelThe former Czech Republic prime minister Andrej Babiš has set the scene for a bitter presidential election showdown dominated by rows over the cou…