{"id":6943,"date":"2019-03-27T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2019-03-27T22:25:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T21:25:09","slug":"babis-holding-eu-presidency-waste-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-holding-eu-presidency-waste-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Babis: Holding EU Presidency Waste Of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 suggested scrapping his country&#8217;s turn with the EU&#8217;s rotating Council presidency because it is a waste of money and nothing more than &#8220;blathering with sandwiches,&#8221; according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0daily\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/denikn.cz\/98906\/babis-pred-ministry-mluvil-o-tom-ze-se-cesko-muze-vzdat-predsednictvi-eu-jen-jsem-rekl-ze-je-prilis-drahe-tvrdi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Den\u00edk N<\/a>\u00a0reported that Babi\u0161 told Cabinet ministers in a meeting on Monday that the country&#8217;s six months running the presidency of the Council of the EU, in the second half of 2022, would cost a lot of money and bring no benefits, and therefore he suggested they should skip their turn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Babi\u0161 later denied that he suggested giving up the presidency and said that he only complained about the cost. He told\u00a0Den\u00edk N that the Czech Republic will be taking on the presidency as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Czechs held the rotating presidency was in 2009, when it cost an estimated 3.5 billion koruna (\u20ac135 million), according to the newspaper report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2016\/07\/26\/council-rotating-presidencies-revised-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council presidency<\/a>\u00a0changes hands every six months and a list has been drawn up until 2030. It was updated in 2016 when the U.K. dropped out because of the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-supplement\"><\/div>\n<div>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/czech-pm-babis-holding-eu-presidency-is-just-blathering-with-sandwiches\/\">Politico EU<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 suggested scrapping his country&#8217;s turn with the EU&#8217;s rotating Council presidency because it is a waste of money and nothing more than &#8220;blathering with sandwiches,&#8221; according to local media. &nbsp; The\u00a0daily\u00a0Den\u00edk N\u00a0reported that Babi\u0161 told Cabinet ministers in a meeting on Monday that the country&#8217;s six months running the presidency &#8230; <a title=\"Babis: Holding EU Presidency Waste Of Money\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-holding-eu-presidency-waste-of-money\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Babis: Holding EU Presidency Waste Of Money\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[15],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Babis: Holding EU Presidency Waste Of Money - Prague Business Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-holding-eu-presidency-waste-of-money\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Babis: Holding EU Presidency Waste Of Money - Prague Business Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 suggested scrapping his country&#8217;s turn with the EU&#8217;s rotating Council presidency because it is a waste of money and nothing more than &#8220;blathering with sandwiches,&#8221; according to local media. &nbsp; The\u00a0daily\u00a0Den\u00edk N\u00a0reported that Babi\u0161 told Cabinet ministers in a meeting on Monday that the country&#8217;s six months running the presidency ... 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