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Czech PM under pressure to step down over son's kidnap claim
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Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has come under intense pressure from both the opposition and the public to resign following the revelation that his son Andrej Babis junior claims his father kidnapped him and held him captive in the Crimea to prevent him from testifying in a corruption case.
The leaders of six opposition parties with 92 votes in
Infighting in Bucharest as president says Romania “not ready” to take over EU presidency
Carmen Simion in Bucharest
Romania is not ready to take over the EU presidency in January next year, President Klaus Iohannis said on November 12.
“You know that as of January 1, 2019, Romania will take over the presidency of the EU Council, an extremely important position, an extremely
Pressure builds on Czech PM Babis to resign over allegations he kidnapped his son
the 200-member parliamentary lower chamber be- tween them have been pushing for a no-confidence vote in the government.
Babis faces the crisis that could cost him his job after investigative journalists from Seznam.cz spent
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honorary position, an extremely demanding position, mostly for the government. In my opinion, we are not ready for such a thing,” Iohannis said.
On October 9, Romania's EU affairs minister Victor
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