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    1. War_Fries on

      So, the Czech people decided to join Hungary and Slovakia in their anti-EU bloc.

      Nice job.

      As if a populist billionaire gives a crap about the common Czech…

      Babiš wants to cut support for Ukraine. Maybe the EU should stop funding anti-EU net receiving Member States, instead.

    2. DefInnit on

      Babis-Fico lovefest incoming. Czechoslovakia’s back! Who’d have known.

    3. Not even one day has passed since a lot of Czechs were saying that he does not like far right and even might create minority government.

    4. onechroma on

      I really think the EU expansion was made too quickly into the east, and this countries shouldn’t have been allowed as easy and quick into the union.

      It didn’t give time for them to “adjust” from their previous contexts (USSR-sphere situations, huge societal changes), so they got rushed into a new entity (EU) now lots of people there seems to “hate”, be wary off, and think all that goes wrong is because of it, because they don’t know anything else.

      Now we are in this strange and weird situation, where the EU really boosted and helped them, with access to a huge market, free movement, lots of fundings, but they feel the EU is bad and even “harms us”, while the local politician profits from this, by deflecting all the problems into the EU, and getting the claps for all the good things.

      PS: Some context, Croatia entered the EU only ~18 years after ending an independence war.

      Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania… got into the EU only ~13 years after splitting from the USSR

      Czech Republic got into the EU only ~11 years after splitting Czechslovakia

      And so on… for the people that were bad back then, or even remember some things with nostalgic glasses, the EU is practically all they know or think of like the origin of “what’s bad”.

      I’m sure lots of people in some countries of the east think of the EU as a “new USSR” for them

    5. bochnik_cz on

      As much as I don’t like the new government forming with this probable ending, the coalition that will be created (ANO, populists led by Babiš, + SPD, prorussian nationalists led by Okamura, + Motorists, right-wing party, where Turek and Macinka are) will be a political mix so unstable everybody involved will have their stress levels to the roof.

      * ANO wants to throw money away to gain voters favor for next election, which will not pass through Motorists, who want a balanced budget
      * SPD wants to ideally leave both NATO and EU, while ANO wants to stay in both NATO and EU. ANO also wants reformed EU, although I have never heard what is their vision in this. Motorists also want to stay in NATO and EU.
      * SPD is right now a mix of prorussian nationalist parties, like Rajchl and his clique or Tricolor and they all smell blood when Okamura and his SPD got less votes than previous elections even when now they got all together
      * ANO wanted to rule alone, can’t do that. They have 80 mandates, need 100, so they need to do coalition with SPD and Motorists. ANO tried to sway SPD and Motorists with high parliamentary positions in exchange for SPD and Motorists not being in the government, both SPD and Motorists said no, they want to be in government.

      So all in all, this situation will not probably result in us going the way like Orban does. Yes, we will not support Ukraine that much and we will continue selling weapons so they can be sold in Ukraine. Also I doubt this coalition will survive whole 4 years.

    6. Organic_Contract_172 on

      Czech president also said that Czechs chose a pro-western cabinet

    7. oofos_deletus on

      Well our elderly population got fooled by populism again

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