Foreign Minister: ANO leader Babiš starting to pose security threat to Czechia

Former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is starting to pose a security threat to Czechia, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said on Sunday in the Czech Television talk show Otázky Václava Moravce. He accused the ANO party leader of undermining the country's defence capability and its international standing politically, and of knowing nothing about foreign policy.

Mr. Babiš responded by saying that Mr. Lipavský's Pirate party poses a threat to Czech security and sovereignty due to their approach to migration, their support of abolishing the right of veto at the EU level, and the Pirates' "fraternization" with the leader of the Slovak opposition, Michal Šimečka, who held a number of meetings with coalition politicians in Prague on Thursday and Friday.