US EditionBabiš is back: Billionaire’s return steers Czechia away from Ukraine and toward Hungary and Slovakia
Babiš aims to realign Czechia away from Ukraine support toward Hungary and Slovakia's pro-Russian stance after winning the largest election victory since 2011, analysts said.
- On Saturday, the ANO movement claimed its largest electoral victory, marking Andrej Babiš's comeback as he plans to halt Czech artillery support for Ukraine.
- Four years ago his prospects looked dim, but Andrej Babiš ran an aggressive campaign blaming the ruling coalition for energy and inflation, promising to revoke pension-age increases and cut beer taxes by more than half.
- Facing legal challenges, Andrej Babiš was forced by Czech Parliament to transfer Agrofert to an independent trust, faces police recommendations for indictment, and a quarter of a million protesters demanded his resignation in 2019, alongside Pandora Papers revelations.
- Without a lower‑house majority, Andrej Babiš would need tacit support from the Freedom and Direct Democracy party and Motorists for Themselves party, but doubts about Freedom's reliability may surface soon.
- In Brussels, Babiš has joined Viktor Orbán to oppose NATO's planned defense spending increases and criticized a deal for 24 U.S. F‑35 fighter jets, signaling regional alignment.
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Andrej Babis Makes Comeback to Win Czech Election
Former Prime Minister Andrej Babis is working to form a government after staging a political comeback to win the biggest share of the vote in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election this weekend. Slovakian-born billionaire Babis did not achieve an overall majority, but won the election with pledges to end military aid to Ukraine and to put the needs of the Czech people first. If he becomes prime minister, his policies will align with those o…
Czechia under Andrej Babiš will be less pro-Ukraine and more sovereign
With his first message that Ukraine is not ready for EU membership, Andrej Babiš announced a dramatic shift from Prague’s previous policy, which was one of the most extreme in terms of Russophobia. With Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Robert Fico in Slovakia, Karol Nawrocki in Poland, and now Babiš in the Czechia, the Visegrád Group
'Czech Trump' set to shift Central Europe away from Brussels
Polls suggest that former Prime Minister Andrej Babis is likely to return to power. A right-wing Euroskeptic looks set to become the next prime minister of the Czech Republic, pre-election polls have suggested. Agri-industry tycoon Andrej Babis, dubbed the 'Czech Trump' in Western media, is expected to receive about 30% of the votes, beating the current pro-EU ruling coalition Spolu (Together) by around 9%. Two days of voting ended on Saturday a…
The Czech "Autodriver Party" helps Andrej Babiš to return to the top of the government. What does the new right-wing party want besides free travel for free citizens?
Andrej Babiš’s Czech victory realigns European populism
Will Europe see a new Visegrad formation emerging after the victory of Andrej Babiš in Czech elections at the weekend? Babiš is far from good news for Brussels, but he is also no Viktor Orbán. While less Eurosceptic and ideological than the Hungarian Prime Minister, Babiš could nonetheless become part of a Hungary-Slovakia-Czech Republic group [...]Read More...
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