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IVF, lingerie and funeral flowers: The lesser-known businesses of Czech PM Andrej Babiš

Summary by Politico Europe
Andrej Babiš built his fortune making fertilizer. But another, lesser-known arm of his business empire has helped bring more than 170,000 children into the world across Europe. The Czech prime minister’s name is rarely attached to FutureLife, one of Europe’s largest IVF clinic networks, spanning 60 clinics in 16 countries from Prague to Madrid to Dublin. But is just one part of a commercial empire that spans nitrogen-based fertilizers and indust…

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Andrej Babiš made his fortune by producing fertilizers. But a lesser-known part of his business empire has helped deliver more than 170,000 babies in Europe.

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Fertilizers, underwear, funeral flowers and human fertility. These are just a fraction of the items that ultimately make up the colossal business empire of the head of the ANO movement and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Now the European Union is taking a closer look at it, although it admits that it is losing track of the Czech Prime Minister's business structure. It is too complicated and unclear.

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Brussels - Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has made his fortune in the production of fertilizers, but another, lesser-known part of his companies is engaged in, for example, artificial insemination, underwear and funeral flowers, writes the Brussels-based Politico server. It also points out that while Babiš as prime minister returns to negotiations on the European budget, health regulations and industrial policy, the EU has no overview of whether an…

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Politico Europe broke the news in Brussels, Belgium on Friday, February 27, 2026.
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