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Blesk: Epicentre: Zeman's outrageous insults of transgender people. And why hasn't the Czech Republic stood up for homosexuals?

June 29, 2021

The new Hungarian legislation has provoked a stormy reaction from the EU leadership. It bans education about sexual minorities in schools. However, the Czech Republic is one of the countries that has so far refused to join in the criticism of Hungary. In an interview with CNN Prima News on Sunday, President Miloš Zeman criticised women's political rights activists, the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and sexual minority events such as Prague Pride. His words that he finds transgender people "truly disgusting" have already gone around the world. Is the Czech Republic a progressive and liberal country, as Prime Minister Andrej Babiš claims? What are the implications of the condemnatory words of the head of state? These were the topics of Tuesday's Epicentre with Vladimír Bartovic, director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy.

Česká televize: Fight for Agrofert

June 17, 2021

The head of our Brussels office, Žiga Faktor, commented on the conflict of interest of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in connection with the misuse of EU funds.

EUROPEUM joins in an open letter in support of Alexej Navalny

April 29, 2021

The director of the Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM, Vladimír Bartovic, together with representatives of Amnesty International and the Association for International Affairs, signed an open letter addressed not only to Russian representatives but also to Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek and Prime Minister Andrei Babiš.

DVTV: Serbia had to negotiate to get vaccines on its own, it could not profit from the collective purchase of the European Commission

February 11, 2021

The head of our Brussels office – Žiga Faktor, commented for DVTV news service on the vaccination process in Serbia and journey of the Czech PM into the country.

Info.cz: The higher climate goal of the EU has approached, the Czech Republic will no longer block it

October 20, 2020

Our researcher Kateřina Davidová recently published an article on news portal Info.cz which deals with the topic of decreasing European emissions. The author responds to the unexpected turn of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in the issue of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and his support for the European goal.

Vít Havelka: Response to Lenka Zlámalová's article "Under Andrej Babiš, the Czech Republic becomes an EU financier for the first time"

August 24, 2020

Our research fellow Vít Havelka is the author of the text responding to Lenka Zlámalová's article published on the Echo Prime platform. It deals with the topic of the status of the Czech Republic within the issue of net payers / net beneficiaries.

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Deník N: Babiš praises one of the best gifts. The Czechia will receive more from the EU, subsidies for Agrofert do not have to be capped

July 22, 2020

Our Vít Havelka commented for the article in Deník N on the topic of the amount that the Czech Republic can expect from the European budget for the next seven years.

E15: Voting on Babiš: The Czech state is also in conflict of interest when it defends the prime minister, says a political scientist

June 20, 2020

Our director Vladimír Bartovic commented on the European Parliament's vote on the conflict of interests of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš for the E15 daily.

Opinion: Prime Minister wants more from EU rescue package. That could me more expensive for us

June 19, 2020

Vít Havelka wrote a commentary about the demands of Prime MInister Andrej Babiš before Friday's (19 June) European Council meeting.

Hospodářské noviny: Babiš sticks with Orbán. V4 does not agree on the distribution of European trillions, the solution will be sought in Lednice

June 11, 2020

Vít Havelka commented for Hospodářské noviny on the meeting of the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group countries due to the rescue package of the European Union.