PRAGUE — Incumbent Miloš Zeman easily beat eight other candidates in the first round of the Czech presidential election but faces a stiff test to win another five-year term against the runner-up, scientist Jiří Drahoš, politico.eu writes.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is the only serving head of government in the EU that has ever been subject to the investigation by EU’s Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). Czech daily newspaper Hospodářské noviny has obtained the complete report by OLAF on the investigation into the Farma Čapí hnízdo (Stork Nest Farm) case of an alleged subsidy fraud and damage to the EU financial interests by Babiš.