{"id":210568,"date":"2026-02-14T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210568"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:58:58","slug":"trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210568","title":{"rendered":"Trump ally Babis returns as Czech PM amid fraud trial and EU concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrej Babis, a billionaire supporter of US President Donald Trump, returned to power as Czech prime minister on Tuesday, signalling a possible end to Ukraine aid and potentially rockier ties with the European Union.<br \/>\nBabis\u2019s ANO movement, which won the October parliamentary elections, teamed up with two Eurosceptic parties to form a coalition government&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3335771\/trumpist-billionaire-babis-returns-power-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrej Babis, a billionaire supporter of US President Donald Trump, returned to power as Czech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210568-trump-ally-babis-returns-as-czech-pm-amid-fraud-trial-and-eu-concerns-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}