New Czech president anticipated to foster EU, Ukraine ties

released : 29 Jan 2023 at 18: 45 Retired war hero Petr Pavel beat billionaire populist Andrej Babis to win Saturday’s governmental election. PRAGUE: Newly-elected Czech president Petr Pavel, a previous NATO basic, will promote close ties with the European Union and deal company assistance for Ukraine in the face of the Russian intrusion, experts stated. The 61-year-old war hero beat billionaire populist Andrej Babis to win Saturday’s governmental election. A previous chief of NATO’s military committee, he will change outspoken, dissentious incumbent Milos Zeman who had promoted closer ties with Moscow and Beijing priorto making a U-turn when Russia attacked Ukraine last year. Analysts informed AFP that Pavel’s experience in military diplomacy would be a clear possession as he held a really various presidency than his predecessor. “We understand that his contacts at NATO, as well as with peers from NATO member states… are extremely strong, and foreign policy will be his domain,” stated Pavel Havlicek, a researcher at the Association for International Affairs in Prague. “I think he will be a competent president if we understand the war in Ukraine is one of the secret issues Europe is dealingwith,” Havlicek informed AFP. Pavel was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s and started a fast increase through army ranks till communi
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