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Czech billionaire businessman Andrej Babiš is expected to move to form a government in Prague after his catch-all ANO party won 35 % of the votes at the general elections, in a significant political shift for central and eastern Europe as well as the EU as a whole.
Babiš does not have a majority alone in the parliament, and he is likely to open coalition talks with the anti-Green Deal Motorists for Themselves and the anti-immigrant Freedom and Direct Democracy party, or attempt to form a minority government.
The European political scene is now gauging to what extent the twice-former Czech prime minister’s election campaign statements and political views could turn into concrete action and in which direction.
Euronews reached out to political analyst Jiří Pehe, the director of the New York University in Prague, and to Dániel Hegedűs, the regional director of the German Marshall Fund of the US, to discuss the potential shift in EU-Czech relations in case of Babiš becoming the Czech Republic's new prime minister.
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