{"id":7406,"date":"2019-07-02T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/?p=7406"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:53:09","slug":"babis-timmermans-unacceptable-as-commission-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-timmermans-unacceptable-as-commission-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Babis: Timmermans Unacceptable As Commission President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Tuesday that Frans Timmermans was absolutely unacceptable as the new president of the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have said that we do not want Mr Timmermans as European Commission president for various reasons. It is unacceptable for us, it would be total catastrophe,\u201d Babis said as he arrived for a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Babis also said he had spoken in favour of several rerepresentatives from the European People\u2019s Party as well as current European commissioner Margrethe Vestager from Babis\u2019s liberal\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ALDE<\/span>\u00a0faction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said Slovakia\u2019s Maros Sefcovic would be a good candidate for the European Union\u2019s top diplomatic post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2019\/07\/02\/czech-pm-babis-timmermans-absolutely-unacceptable-as-commission-chief\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Tuesday that Frans Timmermans was absolutely unacceptable as the new president of the European Commission. &nbsp; \u201cWe have said that we do not want Mr Timmermans as European Commission president for various reasons. It is unacceptable for us, it would be total catastrophe,\u201d Babis said as he arrived &#8230; <a title=\"Babis: Timmermans Unacceptable As Commission President\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-timmermans-unacceptable-as-commission-president\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Babis: Timmermans Unacceptable As Commission President\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7408,"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":[15,119],"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: Timmermans Unacceptable As Commission President - 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-timmermans-unacceptable-as-commission-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Babis: Timmermans Unacceptable As Commission President - Prague Business Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Tuesday that Frans Timmermans was absolutely unacceptable as the new president of the European Commission. &nbsp; \u201cWe have said that we do not want Mr Timmermans as European Commission president for various reasons. 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