(Reuters) – Czech policymakers could consider accelerating the pace of interest rate cuts as inflation ebbs to “relatively standard” levels, Czech National Bank (CNB) board member Tomas Holub said in…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Lawmakers in the Czech Republic’s upper house Senate narrowly voted against ratifying a decade-old international treaty aimed at preventing and combating violence against women. The vote late…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – A Czech appeals court has ruled that Prague can extradite to the United States an Indian man accused by the U.S. of involvement in an unsuccessful plot…
By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech privately-held Sev.en Global Investments on Thursday said it will buy a majority stake in a large coal-fired plant in Vietnam from U.S. energy…
PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech gunmaker Colt CZ Group has made an offer to Vista Outdoor, valuing the U.S. sporting and outdoor goods group at about $1.7 billion, according to Reuters calculations.…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Former Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, one of the leading figures in the country’s post-Communist era, has died, officials said on Sunday. He was 85. Schwarzenberg was…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech lower house lawmakers approved on Friday the centre-right government’s 151 billion crown ($6.47 billion) package of spending cuts and tax hikes aimed at cutting the budget…
PARIS (Reuters) – NJJ Presse, a holding of French telecoms maverick Xavier Niel, has purchased Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s stake in daily Le Monde and committed to transferring this and…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Finance Ministry has proposed a 2024 central state budget with a 252 billion crown ($11.36 billion) deficit, according to a draft of the legislation sent…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech government approved on Wednesday a bill allowing the taxation of large multinational companies which tend to book their profits in countries with a lower tax…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech parliament’s lower house gave initial backing on Friday to the centre-right government’s package of spending cuts and tax hikes aimed at cutting the budget deficit…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of F-35 fighter jets, munitions and related equipment to the Czech Republic in a deal valued at up to $5.62…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The lower house of the Czech parliament gave strong backing to a defence treaty with NATO ally the United States on Wednesday in an initial reading, signalling…
By Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech National Bank is likely to opt against hiking interest rates further but chances of a rate cut are shifting later into 2023,…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Raising the Czech National Bank’s interest rates further would still make sense as it could serve as a signal that the central bank has not given up…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Republic’s budget deficit doubled to 200 billion crowns ($9.30 billion) in January-April, a record for the four-month period and reaching two thirds of the full-year…
By Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech National Bank (CNB) is likely to maintain policy stability and keep its key interest rate at a more than two-decade high of…
By Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech government needs to dig deeper than it plans to shore up the state budget which has fallen to record deficits, and must…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech National Bank (CNB) should not cut interest rates until inflation is clearly lower as rates need to stay higher for longer to slow price growth,…
TAIPEI (Reuters) – The speaker of the lower chamber of the Czech parliament told Taiwanese lawmakers on Tuesday that her country and Taiwan are bound together by freedom and democracy,…
By Jan Lopatka DECIN, Czech Republic (Reuters) – Losing a tank or valued U.S.-made high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) can hurt an army less if the weapon is a…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech National Bank’s monetary policy has been having a restrictive effect on the market although further tightening cannot be ruled out, the bank’s Vice-Governor Jan Frait…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech industrial output returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, growing 1.7%, data showed, mainly due to car production, which is likely to struggle this year from supply-chain…
By Robert Muller and Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech National Bank (CNB) left interest rates unchanged at a more than two-decade high on Thursday, saying rate stability for…
By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) – When mortar fire exploded around him in a 1990s peace mission in the Balkans, Petr Pavel showed the calm, cool nature that would later…