Short vita
Ester Povýšilová is a Project Manager responsible for projects and political monitoring in the Czech Republic and the Baltics. She studied conference interpreting at Charles University and during her studies gained professional experience in the German Bundestag, the Senate of the Czech Republic, Czech Radio and Leipzig University. She is fluent in English, German, Spanish and Czech.
Contributions
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New liberal government in Estonia
In the Estonian parliamentary elections held in March, Prime Minister Kallas' liberal Reform Party received 31 percent of the vote and at the same time had a free hand in choosing its coalition partners. After almost five weeks of coalition negotiations, Kallas brought the progressive-centrist Esti 200 party and the social democratic SDE party into her governing alliance. Today the new government takes office. In what situation does the coalition take over the country and what is its vision for the future of the countries political agenda?
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Dirty election campaign with a good ending?
After ten years, the Czech Republic will have a new president: Retired General Petr Pavel clearly won the run-off election against former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. His victory is good news for the country's pro-Western development. After years of dividing society under outgoing President Miloš Zeman, who was known for his love of Russia and China, the new president will have his hands full in bringing together the currently highly polarised society and charting a new course.
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The Czech Republic is looking for a president
Since 2012, the Czech president has been directly elected by citizens in two rounds of voting. Czechs enjoy this right to vote and the last presidential election in 2018 saw the highest turnout in a national election in 20 years. Thus, the presidential election has become a great show that people discuss for months and years ahead, arousing great emotions. The bookmakers are sure about the winner of the election, the polls are groping in the dark and a third of the voters are still undecided. So what can we expect in the first and second rounds of the presidential election?
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Final assessment of the Czech EU Presidency
The last EU meetings under the Czech Presidency are taking place this week. It became clear now that the Czech Republic is a credible and reliable partner for other members states. During its EU Presidency, the country had to deal mainly with the crisis agenda, focusing on energy issues and negotiating very complex packages such as the climate package and support for Ukraine. Especially in the energy sector, the Czechs proved to be good negotiators, focusing on pragmatic compromises.
