Over the past few weeks, the Czech Republic got their chance at hearing how the EU institutions can help or harm them with future plans of integration, issues relating to immigration and several spurious stories surrounding the Pro-EU candidate Jiří Drahoš. While the fake news did most likely have some impact, Drahoš was an inexperienced politician who had good luck but also made many mistakes. He lost 25% of his support from the first round of voting, probably due to the fact that he strongly declared he would not back the popular, though controversy-ridden, PM Andrej Babiš which negatively affected …read more
Source: Visegrad Insight