The owner of the publishing house Ekonomia, financier Zdeněk Bakala, left
the organisation’s statutory bodies on Monday, as has his wife Michaela.
Mr Bakala remains the sole shareholder of Ekonomia, which publishes, among
other titles, the business daily Hospodářské noviny, the weekly Ekonom
and the liberal intellectual weekly Respekt.
In a press release issued Monday, Mr Bakala said that he regarded the
publishing house as an important investment, through which he wants to
promote independent journalism in the Czech Republic.