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Czech billionaire set to return to power after election win
Czech billionaire Andrej Babis was on track to return to power after securing a decisive victory in a parliamentary election, pledging to undo four years of austerity and curb military aid to Ukraine. Babis’ populist ANO took 35% of the vote, the party’s best-ever result, data from the Czech Statistics Office showed on Saturday. The…
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Slovakia resists Trump’s push to quickly quit Russian oil
Slovakia has no plans to quickly abandon Russian oil supplies, President Peter Pellegrini told U.S. President Donald Trump during talks in New York this week. Trump has been pressing the European Union’s holdouts — Hungary and Slovakia — to end imports of Russian crude, arguing it would help choke off Moscow’s war funding and push…