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Lukáš Valášek wrote that the state-owned company Čepro has paid Agrofert over 19 billion crowns for contracts without a public tender since 2017. According to him, Čepro began to claim that it did not have to hold public tenders after the law prohibiting companies owned by politicians from obtaining public contracts came into effect. Valášek stated that the company has relied on the opinion of the then vice-chairwoman of the Office for Protection of Competition (ÚOHS), who left the office due to suspicions of manipulating decisions in favor of representatives of the ANO party, Jaroslav Faltýnek and Jiří Švachula. According to him, she signed the opinion before her departure. In preparing it, she was supposed to have used documents from the ministries led by Alena Schillerová and Karel Havlíček, which, according to Valášek, downplayed Čepro's exceptional position, even though it is captured in state strategies. According to Valášek, the government of Petr Fiala did not address the matter, and the ministries, now again under the control of Havlíček and Schillerová, do not want to reopen it based on their statements. Čepro also refused to inform him how many contracts it has already awarded to Agrofert under the new government of Andrej Babiš, despite the ÚOHS ruling that the company is subject to the information law at the request of the Pirate Party's analytical team. Valášek added that even the ÚOHS led by Petr Mlsna, whom Babiš appointed, did not see a reason for a review. According to Valášek, the Prime Minister decided whether the government would extend Mlsna's mandate for additional years. https://t.co/O1ekCFdPwn #Česko #politika #korupce (translated)

She played fantastically. She hit it so hard that I couldn't do anything. It was a level I couldn't believe. I didn't know what to do with it. Oh my god, what a player, for me a future superstar, Sabalenka raved about her young opponent already at the end of June in Berlin, when she managed to turn the match around from a score of 2:6, 0:4. #NikolaBartůňková #tenis #WTA (translated)

Behind these numbers are 1.2 billion people who are confronted with mutually reinforcing emergencies: hunger, missed education, and lack of clean water or electricity," said UNDP Chief Alexander De Croo during the presentation of this year's report. #Armutsindex #UNO #MehrdimensionaleArmut (translated)

The author sharply criticized Radim Fiala and stated that she considered him even worse than Pitomio. According to her, Fiala pretended to care about ordinary Ukrainians while talking about a nuclear conflict and an agreement, asserting that thousands of people were demonstrating in the streets of Ukraine for the country's capitulation. She identified Kupka and Vlček as capable opposition politicians who opposed Fiala's claims with facts. She added that the SPD would cut their appearances for their supporters, but at least TV viewers would hear the debate in context. #politika #Ukrajina #Fiala (translated)

Bartosz Lewandowski pointed out that the prosecutor's office and services used, among others, Microsoft Office, which could — as he wrote — create a risk of data leakage since the manufacturer had access to it. He added that prosecutors and officers also massively used messengers, and yet no one thought of bringing charges for that reason. #bezpieczeństwo #dataprivacy #technologia (translated)

The post indicated that the Cuban Christian pastor Alexis Padrón Lorenzo loudly demanded food and medicine for people and his community during the protests. According to the post, the Cuban authorities detained him for three months because of this, and he was said to be almost without food and medicine in prison and without the opportunity to communicate with others. The post also stated that he had been released and was awaiting legal proceedings. https://t.co/544lxFRwvv #protesti #Kuba #pravice #CU (translated)

The author wrote that Cuban authorities imprisoned Christian pastor Alexis Padrón Lorenzo for three months after he publicly called for food and medicine for people and his community. The author said he had almost no food or medicine in prison. #Cuba #DerechosHumanos #Libertad #CU (translated)

In an interview with the "Financial Times," the minister also called on European allies to limit Russian diplomatic presence: "I have run out of consulates, but others still have them," Sikorski stated, referring to actions already taken by Poland. #Rosja #NATO #BezpieczeństwoEuropejskie (translated)

Ledarsidorna.se criticized Magdalena Andersson's objections to the Swedish Prime Minister's security policy focus on Sweden's neighborhood and the Baltic Sea. The writer described the criticism as an echo of Sten Andersson's and Pierre Schori's time and claimed that the ideas were still deeply rooted in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The writer believed that a less vigilant stance would betray Alexander Stubb and the foreign ministries of Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Poland. As a Finnish Swede, the writer stated that they were well aware of what Russia represented and claimed that the Social Democrats and Magdalena Andersson did not reflect the Finnish and Finnish Swedish view on security policy in their spontaneous comments to Politico. The writer called for more Finnish and Finnish Swedish determination and warned that otherwise, Sweden could again become subordinate to Kremlin. #svpol #sverige #säkerhetspolitik #finlandssvensk (translated)

The article analyzes how Trump's announcement of an "energy truce" between Russia and Ukraine, accompanied by the easing of sanctions on Russian diesel, risks benefiting Russia and jeopardizing Ukraine's security in the context of the elections in the United States. #Ucraina #Motorina #Trump (translated)