The new Czech Prime Minister, billionaire Andrej Babiš, accused politicians who warn of a real danger of Russia provoking a war in Europe in his New Year's address today of being irresponsible because they should not scare the people with war, but rather that it is their duty to end the war.
"Instead of searching for paths that lead to calm, we are increasingly hearing stories that war is inevitable, that it will break out in two or three years. That is not responsible politics. Politicians should not scare people with war, their responsibility is to end wars. War is attractive only to those who have never experienced it," Babiš said in a speech on social media.
Babiš criticized politicians who talk about the war as if it were some abstract game, rather than as if lives, destroyed families, and a lost future were at stake.
"I reject the thesis that peace is weakness. A just and sustainable peace is an obligation to our children and their future," Babiš said.
The new Czech Prime Minister expressed his wish that 2026 would be a year of peace and said he believed it would be.
The leader of the populist ANO, which won the elections on October 3rd and 4th and entered a coalition with radical nationalists, also praised the first steps of the new government, appointed on December 15th of last year.
Among other things, the government rejected the new ETS2 emissions permits at one of its first sessions, which the European Union itself postponed until 2028, and the Czech Republic, with its new government, unsuccessfully, as did Hungary and Slovakia, sought to postpone them until 2030, rather than abolish them.
Babiš also boasted that the government had fulfilled its election promise, primarily to voters sympathetic to the far right, that it had rejected the migration pact, even though the Czech Republic is currently not subject to mandatory solidarity in the redistribution of migrants due to the large number of Ukrainian war refugees.
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