TEHRAN, Jun 26 - Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis appeared set to survive a no-confidence vote Wednesday, analysts said, even as he faces charges of graft, EU concerns over possible conflicts of interest and mass rallies demanding his resignation.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 - Tens of thousands of Czechs took to the streets on Tuesday, June 4, to demand the resignation of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis over alleged conflicts of interest involving his former business empire and an investigation into a decade-old EU subsidy.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Wednesday stepped up criticism of a European Commission audit into his possible conflicts of interest, calling the auditors incompetent and demanding a meeting with the head of the commission executive.
TEHRAN, Mar 16 - The Czech Republic will buy 12 military helicopters from a U.S. company, narrowing the field of possible suppliers, Deputy Defense Minister Jakub Landovsky told a paper on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Jan 23 - The Czech Parliament's lower house has approved a proposal drafted by Communist lawmakers to tax the compensation that the country's churches receive for property seized by the former Communist regime.
TEHRAN, Jan 19 -A man set himself on fire Friday in Prague during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of a student's self-immolation in protest of a Soviet invasion, Czech police said.
TEHRAN, November 14 - The Czech Republic on Wednesday joined the growing ranks of European Union countries to reject a United Nations pact that aims to regulate the treatment of migrants worldwide.
TEHRAN, October 14 - The populist ANO movement of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis and their Social Democrat coalition partners suffered a crushing defeat Saturday in a second round of Senate elections.
TEHRAN, July 15 - Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said Sunday he saw Italy's request that EU peers take some of 450 migrants stranded at sea on two Frontex vessels as "a road to hell."
TEHRAN, June 06 - The president of the Czech Republic has again sworn in billionaire Andrej Babis as prime minister, a move that could see the Communist Party taking a share of power for the first time since the 1989 anti-Communist Velvet Revolution.
TEHRAN, January 26 - Voters are going to the polls in the Czech republic to decide their next president, in a knife-edge contest between a pro-Western liberal challenger and populist incumbent Miloš Zeman.
TEHRAN, January 25 - Head of Czech Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee Lubomír Zaorálek stressed his country’s support for Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with P5+1 countries and preventing its destruction.
TEHRAN, January 17 - The cabinet of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis resigned on Wednesday, a day after losing a confidence vote on the billionaire politician’s first attempt to form a government while battling fraud allegations.
TEHRAN, November 29 - The Czech center-left government of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka stepped down on Wednesday, making way for billionaire Andrej Babis, who won an election last month, to take power in time for an EU summit in December.
TEHRAN, October 22 -The centrist party of Czech billionaire Andrej Babis has scored a victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, winning almost 30 percent of the votes, amid allegations of fraud and a corruption scandal.