This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission positively assessed Czechia’s fifth payment request for €614 million under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. This is an important step in the delivery of reforms and investments tied to this payment request, in the areas of affordable housing, sustainable mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, railway infrastructure, environmental research […]Commission greenlights Czechia’s fifth payment request for €614 million under NextGenerationEU
February 4, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission positively assessed Czechia’s fifth payment request for €614 million under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. This is an important step in the delivery of reforms and investments tied to this payment request, in the areas of affordable housing, sustainable mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, railway infrastructure, environmental research […]€280 million to help Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Moldova recover from floods
May 28, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission has proposed to allocate €280 million from the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to support flood recovery in Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Moldova. This initiative was taken in response to the severe floods that affected these […]NextGenerationEU reaches €300 billion in RRF payments with new disbursements to Czechia, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Romania
December 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission disbursed payments under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to Czechia, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Romania, totalling €26.8 billion in loans and grants. The total disbursed under the RRF has now reached over €300 billion. This important milestone reflect the scale […]Commission allocates €77 million in emergency support to farmers in Austria, Czechia, Poland and Portugal
July 10, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission proposed to mobilise €77 million from the agricultural reserve to support farmers from the fruit, vegetables and wine sectors of Austria, Czechia, Poland who have recently suffered from adverse climatic events of unprecedented magnitude, as well as Portuguese wine producers who […]Commission calls on Czechia to improve competition for organising waste collection and recovery in the packaging sector
June 12, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has informed Czechia that measures appointing EKO-KOM as the only company authorised for the collection and recovery of packaging waste for over two decades may be in breach of the EU competition rules. EKO-KOM, based in Czechia, offers collection and recovery […]EU Cohesion Policy: New sustainable modern railway in Czechia
June 23, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the renovated railway service in South Moravia, one of the biggest Cohesion Policy’s investments in Czechia, was inaugurated and opened to passengers. The renovation of this line, involving – 37 new electric units – will contribute to the de-congestion of traffic during peak […]EU citizens’ electoral rights: Commission decides to refer CZECHIA and POLAND to the Court of Justice
June 9, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has decided today to refer Czechia and Poland to the Court of Justice, because in these two Member States EU citizens are restricted from joining a domestic political party. As a result of this restriction, citizens from other EU Member States […]Russia: MEPs deplore military build-up, attack in Czechia and jailing of Navalny
April 30, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Parliament is deeply concerned by the recent Russian military build-up on Ukraine border and revelations of Russian agents behind explosions in Czechia In a resolution adopted on Thursday, MEPs confirmed how deeply worried they are about Russian military posturing close to the country’s border […]Coronavirus: additional ventilators dispatched to Czechia via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism
October 26, 2020 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Following Thursday’s announcement by President von der Leyen that the EU is sending 30 ventilators from the rescEU medical reserve, Austria and the Netherlands are now also answering Czechia’s request for assistance through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. With 15 ventilators from Austria, 105 […]Germany readies to pay for the Brexit gap in EU finance
February 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
As expected, last Friday’s informal European Council of the 27 EU leaders didn’t produce any tangible result regarding its main agenda item; the future of Europe. The EU leaders just quarreled on who is to cover the hole in the budget, after Britain’s contribution ends with Brexit. In relation to this perennial question of money […]Europe’s far-right launches attacks on neighboring nations
December 21, 2017 by Leave a Comment
This newspaper had predicted that Europe’s extreme right wing, almost fascist political parties, unable to deliver their phoney promises after reaching government posts, will try to play the aggressive chauvinism card. Old Continet’s’s nations have paid dearly in the past millennia for jingoism and chauvinist violence. However, after many decades of peace in Europe and […]Czech Babis, Austrian Kurz and others threaten Europe with nationalist populism
October 26, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Andrej Babis, a media magnate and second wealthier Czech leading his anti-immigration, nationalist and populist ANO party, won last Sunday’s election, with around 30% of the vote. He is to become the next Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. Babis did that on an anti-systemic Trump-like ticket. He was recently implicated in a tax fraud […]
