Czech and French leaders sign strategic partnership action plan

The Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and the French President Emmanuel Macron signed a strategic partnership action plan during a visit by the latter to Prague on Tuesday. The document is focused on European and foreign policy, security and defence, migration, trade, social affairs, science and culture and is valid until 2028.

The action plan refers to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as illegal and unprovoked armed aggression.

In the document the two states declare that they have long-standing good relations based on shared values and similar or identical foreign policy interests.

Author: Ian Willoughby