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Populist billionaire vies with ex-general for top Czech post
Read full article: Populist billionaire vies with ex-general for top Czech postRetired army Gen. Petr Pavel is challenging populist billionaire Andrej Babis in the Czech presidential runoff vote for the largely ceremonial post that pits the political newcomer against the former prime minister.
Czech ex-PM Babis favorite in presidential vote's 1st round
Read full article: Czech ex-PM Babis favorite in presidential vote's 1st roundPopulist billionaire Andrej Babis is leading a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post of the Czech president.
Airport chaos: European travel runs into pandemic cutbacks
Read full article: Airport chaos: European travel runs into pandemic cutbacksAfter two years of pandemic restrictions, travel demand is back, but airlines and airports that slashed jobs during the depths of the COVID-19 crisis are struggling to keep up.
Russia's war on Ukraine will shape the Czech EU presidency
Read full article: Russia's war on Ukraine will shape the Czech EU presidencyRussia's invasion of Ukraine and what Europe must do to counter the consequences of it have become the key task for the Czech Republicโs upcoming presidency of the 27-nation European Union.
'She became our voice': Albright hailed by world leaders
Read full article: 'She became our voice': Albright hailed by world leadersAs she pressed the Clinton administration into action against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic over war crimes in the Balkans, Madeleine Albright would harken back to her own childhood as a refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled the Nazis in war-torn Europe.
Putin: 'Unfriendly' embassies may face Russian hiring bans
Read full article: Putin: 'Unfriendly' embassies may face Russian hiring bansRussian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing the country to limit the number of Russians employed at embassies of countries determined to be unfriendly, or to ban their employment entirely.
Central European leaders push for faster vaccine deliveries
Read full article: Central European leaders push for faster vaccine deliveries(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)WARSAW โ Central European leaders pushed Wednesday for faster deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines from every reliable manufacturer to speed up inoculations which they said is the way to conquer the pandemic and jump-start Europeโs economic recovery. The leaders of Hungary, Slovakia and Poland said they support purchasing vaccines from manufacturers regardless of โgeopoliticsโ provided they are safe and effective. Hungary is the European Union's first and so far only member state to administer Russia's Sputnik V vaccine without waiting for approval from the European Medicines Agency. โThere is no Eastern or Western vaccine, there is only a good or a bad vaccine,โ Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a news conference in Krakow, Poland. European Council President Charles Michel, who attended the celebrations, said EU leaders will discuss next week ways of increasing vaccine production and of speeding up inoculations.
Central Europe presidents mark 30 years of Visegrad Group
Read full article: Central Europe presidents mark 30 years of Visegrad GroupThe group, also known as V4, often works out joint positions in international ties, especially within the European Union. Opening the ceremonial meeting, Duda said the V4 group has had a positive role in European and trans-Atlantic ties. โThe group is an important, if not the key catalyst of the regional cooperation in all of Central Europe and contributes significantly to the cooperation and political processes regarding the EU and NATO," Duda said. Poland currently holds the group's 12-month rotating presidency, which it will hand over to Hungary on July 1. ___A previous version of this story corrected the spelling of the Slovakia presidentโs name to Zuzana Caputova, not Zuzanna Czaputova.
Czech Oscar winning director Jiri Menzel dies at age 82
Read full article: Czech Oscar winning director Jiri Menzel dies at age 82PRAGUE Jiri Menzel, a Czech director whose 1966 movie Closely Watched Trains won the Academy Award for the best foreign language film has died. Three years ago, Menzel underwent a brain operation and was kept in an artificially induced coma for several weeks after it. Unlike colleagues such as Milos Forman, Jan Nemec and Ivan Passer, Menzel didnt emigrate after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Closely Watched Trains was his first feature movie. His 1985 comedy My Sweet Little Village was nominated for the Academy Award for best foreign film.