Expert: Babiš will be seen as pro-Russian over European Parliament group

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ANO leader Andrej Babiš recently founded a new group at the European Parliament with Viktor Orban. Regarded as a far-right bloc, Patriots for Europe also now includes the likes of Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders – and this week was accused of being pro-Russian by the Czech prime minister. I discussed Mr. Babiš’s move with Viktor Daněk, deputy director of the think tank Europeum.

“It is obvious that in his former political group he was not very satisfied with the political environment he found himself in.

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Author: Ian Willoughby