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- EU greets Johnson victory with relief and reluctance
EU leaders welcomed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's election triumph on Friday as a chance to put three years of Brexit frustration behind them, but the Czech premier spoke for many in the bloc when he said Brexit was "bad news for Europe".
- East-West row upsets EU's grand climate plan
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic clashed with Western European nations on Thursday over the EU's bold new push for climate neutrality by 2050, demanding funds for their energy transition to lower emissions, and a role for nuclear power.
- CEE MARKETS-Stocks gain in post-Fed optimism, Czech T-bill auction eyed
Central European stock markets
jumped on Thursday after the Federal Reserve forecast that it
would hold rates through 2020, which pushed money into equities
and weakened the dollar.
The Fed announcement late on Wednesday, which followed its
decision to leave rates unchanged, sent the dollar to its
weakest since early August.
Stocks in the eastern corner of the European Union gained,
led by a 1.5% jump in Warsaw, while Prague's blue-c
- Czechs protest against PM Babis after damning EU report
Tens of thousands of Czechs protested against Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Thursday after prosecutors reopened a case into alleged subsidy fraud by the leader and Brussels declared a conflict of interest between his businesses and political role.
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