Czech Parliament Votes To Restrict Access to Citizenship for Russians
The opposition slammed the new measures as a collective punishment of all Russians for Putin’s crimes.
The opposition slammed the new measures as a collective punishment of all Russians for Putin’s crimes.
PM Fiala’s remaining four-party coalition now only has a narrow parliamentary majority and is unlikely to stop the Patriots’ resurgent ANO from taking back control next year.
Prague’s five-party coalition might not survive until next year’s parliamentary election after its shocking defeat by Andrej Babiš’ sovereigntist ANO.
The results are described as a “wake-up call” for Petr Fiala’s center-right government before next year’s parliamentary elections.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala admitted that the results reflected the mood of the society.
The Hungarian PM said a conservative ECR-ID ‘superbloc’ could be the second largest in Parliament, but Czech premier Fiala wants a deal with centrists EPP instead.
He chose as his theme “Europe as a task,” inspired in an essay by communist resistance leader and first Czechian prime minister Václav Klaus.
The European Union is not NATO, but Ukraine joining the Union, while undoubtedly symbolically effective, could further aggravate tensions between Russia and the rest of the European continent.