Politics

Sought for immunity law change for members of parliament, which sparked students' "sex strike" call, back on course.

During the short existence of the National Socialists (LEV 21), their leader has shot wide of the post and scored own goals.

The allocation of grants from the European Union's regional NUTS 2 program for Northern Bohemia was not carried out in line EU requirements, according to a recent audit by the "big four" consultancy Deloitte. The audit, ordered by the Czech Ministry of Finance and the European Commission, uncovered problems in 34 of the 35 projects examined, the news server Aktualne.cz reported last week.

The newly created political party forming around Karolína Peake, a deputy prime minister and leader of a group that broke away from the Public Affairs (VV) party, says it has already collected more the 1,000 signatures needed to register as a party. The new party to be created has already been baptized LIDEM and, according to Peake, should have fulfilled all the steps necessary to be registered as a political party by the end of June.