President Donald J. Trump escorts the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis along the Colonnade of the White House, March 7, 2019, Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour, cropped.

From https://corporateeurope.org:
“The Czech Trump: how prime minister Babiš undermines democracy – Jakub Patočka
August 23rd 2018 (interview with Jakub Patočka by Rachel Knaebel, Observatoire des Multinationales)

The political climate in the Czech Republic has grown increasingly repressive following the election of oligarch Andrej Babiš as prime minister in October 2017. With the Czech civil society space squeezed tighter and tighter by Babiš’s government, we want to help draw attention to the duress and threats under which many progressive organisations and media outlets now have to work.

In the following interview, Czech journalist and Corporate Europe Observatory board member Jakub Patočka explains what is at stake in the country as targeted defamation campaigns and funding withdrawals are…