The Czech police’s anti-organized crime unit (ÚOOZ) has completed an investigation into eight suspected members of a terrorist cell, who were arrested in Prague and Berlin in April and June 2011. The group is reportedly linked to Jamaat Shariat — a terrorist organization that seeks to establish an Islamic state under Sharia Law in Russia’s North Caucasus region.

More than 300 pro-European Czech personalities have fired off a petition to Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas (ODS) calling him to think again over his refusal to sign up to the EU's fiscal discipline pact. They say the move was motivated by short-term internal party political considerations. The refusal lines up the Czech Republic alongside Britian as the sole EU states which rejected the agreement.

Mud-slinging over the Czech failure to take part in time in Swiss criminal proceedings against former managers of a Czech mining company that slipped from state control appears to have started in earnest. Public Affairs (VV) chairman Radek John says the ministries of foreign affairs and justice should take most of the blame — which includes the country possibly losing out on claims for billions in damages in the MUS (now Czech Coal) case.

In the wake of attacks on the websites of the Association for the Protection of Rights for musicians (OSA), the Czech government, center-right Civic Democrats (ODS) party, and street demonstrations against the Czech Republic’s signature on the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA), the Anonymous movement has been propelled to the forefront of media attention although the exposure has not shed so much light on its its functioning and aims.