The last 18 months in the Czech Republic have resembled a high-octane soap opera with a plot that could easily be dismissed as too fanciful. That’s not quite how the European Commission’s anti-corruption body (GRECO) put it last month – but it was a withering report all the same, charging the Czech Republic with making “little substantial progress” and deeming its overall level of compliance as “globally unsatisfactory”. Even against the backdrop of deteriorating democratic standards in central Europe, the situation in the Czech Republic has set off alarm bells.
Following a 30-year game of castling between the centre-right Civic Democrats …read more
Source: Newsweek
