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Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec

Parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic Babišs triumph

The opposition ANO movement, led by oligarch Andrej Babiš, achieved the best result in the parliamentary elections held on 3–4 October, winning 34.5% of the vote and securing 80 seats in the 200-member Chamber of Deputies. With voter…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec

Czech Republic without power lessons from the blackout

Following a power system failure around midday on 4 July, the electricity supply was temporarily cut off to approximately one million consumption points in the Czech Republic – roughly one sixth of the total. The blackout affected six of…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec

The Czech Republic no longer depends on Russian oil

On 17 April, Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced that the Czech Republic had definitively ended its dependence on Russian oil supplies. For the first time in its history, the country was supplied exclusively with crude oil from non-Russian…
OSW Report | | Agata Łoskot-Strachota

Energy policy in times of war and transition. Priorities of the Central and Eastern European countries and Germany

Since the outbreak of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the effective implementation of three key energy policy objectives has gained importance: ensuring energy security alongside the EU’s ambitious climate agenda, maintaining…
Point of View | | Łukasz Maślanka

The patchwork defence union. Shifts in the EU’s security policy following the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 provided an impulse for the development of EU security and defence policy initiatives. Member states provided significant military assistance to Kyiv, making innovative use of Common…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec

Czech Republic the Pirates have fallen overboard from the government

On 1 October, the left-liberal Czech Pirate Party (Pirates) exited the government coalition. This development was a direct consequence of Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s (of the right-wing Civic Democratic Party, ODS) decision to remove the…
Analyses | | Andrzej Sadecki

Patriots for Europe Orbáns attempt to unite the radical right

Patriots for Europe (PfE), an alliance of three parties – Hungary’s Fidesz, the Czech Republic’s ANO, and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) – founded on 30 June, has become the nucleus of a new group in the European Parliament. In the…
Analyses | | Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski, Jacek Tarociński

The first shells under the Czech initiative have arrived in Ukraine Day 859 of the war

Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec

Progress in the Czech nuclear programme the ECs approval and bids for new units

On 30 April, the European Commission (EC) approved a state aid mechanism enabling the funding of the construction and operation of the fifth unit of the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant (with a capacity of up to 1200 MW). As part of this…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec

The Czech nuclear tender more units to be built but without US participation

On 31 January, the Czech government adopted an annex to the documentation on the tender to expand the country’s nuclear energy sector (see ‘The Czech nuclear showdown enters the final straight’). It includes an invitation to the French EDF…