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The Czechs Choose Peace Over Brussels
UK/Europe The Czechs Choose Peace Over Brussels The growing antiwar front in Europe is a call for pragmatism, not a betrayal of the West. The resounding victory of Andrej Babiš’s sovereignist-populist ANO party in the Czech parliamentary elections has sent a shockwave through European capitals. Framed by the staunchly Atlanticist President Petr Pavel as an existential choice between the West and Russia, the vote was instead a clear rejection of…
Rightist and populist forces are moving in Europe. Here in TGP, we have been following closely the growing right-wing and populist forces in Europe, and especially the “Patriots for Europe” group in the European Parliament. The group has leaders such as Viktor Orbán of the Hungarian Fidesz; Marine Le Pen of the French National Group; Matteo Salvini of the League (Italy); Herbert Kickl of the Austrian Freedom Party; Geert Wilders of PVV in the Ne…
The debate between pro-peace and pro-war positions has intensified again in Europe. After the EU summit, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen harshly criticized Viktor Orbán for Hungary continuing to pursue its own, independent policy on Ukraine. Meanwhile, in the Czech Republic, the Hungarian Prime Minister's ally, Andrej Babis, won a landslide victory, which could give further impetus to the sovereignist line. Zoltán Koskovics, geopolitical…
Andrej Babiš faces a number of dilemmas after the elections, which his ANO movement won handily. As does President Petr Pavel. Jindřich Šídlo comments on the process of forming a new government and the roles that both men will play in it in the 5:59 podcast.
Marked by the victory of the populist movement ANO, affiliated with the Patriotes for Europe in the European Parliament, but also by the defeat of a government that had made Ukraine's support a priority, the outcome of the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic raises a number of doubts about the billionaire's real foreign policy intentions.
The winner of the Czech presidential election, billionaire Andrej Babiš (photo), returned on Sunday from consultations with President Petr Pavel with two key conditions to form the new government: to maintain the country's pro-Western orientation and to resolve its problems related to a possible conflict of interest. Babiš's populist party secured only 80 […] The article Czech Republic / Andrej Babiš is preparing a minority government. What limi…
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