At the Under30Summit Global Retreat, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babiš talked politics and innovation. “We are playing a Game of Thrones in the EU Commission,' he said
Bureaucratic governments and agile startups couldn’t be more different, but in reality, they can't exist without each other.
The Prime Minister’s big business persona is evident from the off, “I am a special case. I don’t feel like a politician, I made this terrible mistake by going into politics,” he says on the transition from entrepreneurship to politics. Addressing the current spate of protests around the country, PM Babiš claims that the people organising the protests are those who lost out when he came to power. On the protests, described by the Guardian newspaper as the “Biggest Czech protest since 1989”, he adds, “Police said it was 70k not 130k at the protest. The journalists don’t like me because I came and broke this corrupt system. But I am un-corruptible . These people which lost the election want to change and manipulate.
But Central Europe is an increasingly influential animal. And despite coming together from different ends of the political divide, when it comes to Europe, their ideas align. “Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic - we are 65 million people working together despite the conservative, socialist divide - we have the same views on Europe. We have different views on immigration, but we have the same view on the four freedoms and the single market.
Diving deeper into European affairs he adds: “I hope that Brexit won’t happen. I hope for a second referendum. The UK was always an ally - 80k Czechs live in the UK and we do a lot of business."The PM cites “fake news” and the public being “manipulated” during the 2016 referendum. Is the UK in trouble? “It will be a problem for us and the whole of Europe. It is not just the problem of the UK but the problem for the remaining 27 states.
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