Social Democrats hold conference

In related news, the opposition Social Democrats held a party conference in the Moravian city of Olomouc on Saturday. The conference focused on reshaping the party’s policies following May’s general elections, which the party won but was unable to form a government. The acting Social Democrat chair, Bohuslav Sobotka, said the party needed to form a credible alternative to the right-of-centre government which he criticized for massive budget cuts. Mr Sobotka admitted that budget deficits were “the biggest enemy of welfare state” but his party should come up with sophisticated and well though-out austerity measures.