Czech Labour Minister Aleš Juchelka under probe for conflict of interest in EU subsidy allocations

Former finance minister Vlastimil Tlustý urged the Czech government to publish the full list of state subsidies and grants, arguing that annual spending reaches about one trillion Czech crowns and that greater transparency is needed to curb unnecessary expenditures.

In a related controversy, Labour Minister Aleš Juchelka has been accused of a conflict of interest after his former adviser, Alexandra Semancová, continued to run a consultancy that assists firms in obtaining EU‑funded subsidies while the ministry oversaw billions of crowns in grant programmes. The ministry failed to report projects worth roughly 64 million CZK to the European Commission, prompting scrutiny over possible misuse of funds and breaches of EU rules.