Chief Prague Prosecutor Vlastimil Rampula will again be removed from office following a ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court (NSS) on Tuesday in favor of a cassation complaint by Czech Minister of Justice Jiří Pospíšil, who charged the top prosecutor had held up key corruption investigations and mishandled a major privatization case, costing the state tens of billions in damages.

Following the May 2010 parliamentary elections, responsibility for the performing arts fell to Czech deputy culture minister Radek Zdráhal. He didn’t like what he saw at the Prague State Opera — losses and less than transparent management — and this month filed a criminal complaint against an unknown perpetrator over questionable contracts and other alleged irregularities. But why didn’t the Culture Ministry act?

Czech Ombudsman Pavel Varvařovský has again threatened to resign from his post unless the lower house or Parliament adopts changes he has proposed, for example on a draft law that would allow municipalities to ban repeat offenders without a permanent residence from living there for up to three months.

Corruption is undermining economic stability in Europe, the anticorruption watchdog Transparency International said in a report issued this week. The Czech Republic has shown a worrying “rollback” since joining the EU, it said, with public procurement and political-party funding areas of particular concern. But no European country received a clean bill of health in the watchdog’s so-called corruption integrity check.