{"id":7608,"date":"2019-07-26T13:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/?p=7608"},"modified":"2019-07-31T16:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:25:40","slug":"ec-postpones-deadline-to-respond-to-audit-on-babis-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/ec-postpones-deadline-to-respond-to-audit-on-babis-conflict-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Postpones Deadline To Respond To Audit On Babis&#8217; Conflict Of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article\">\n<p>The European Commission has agreed to postpone the deadline by which the Czech Republic must respond to the Commission\u2019s first draft audit on Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161\u2019 suspected conflict of interest until September 2, Czech Radio reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission originally set the deadline for the beginning of August, but the Regional Development Ministry requested a month-long extension, arguing that the audit was complex. According to the EC\u2019s preliminary findings the Czech prime minister has a conflict of interest and the Czech Republic may subsequently have to return some 450 million crowns in EU subsidies paid to the Agrofert business conglomerate he founded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has agreed to postpone the deadline by which the Czech Republic must respond to the Commission\u2019s first draft audit on Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161\u2019 suspected conflict of interest until September 2, Czech Radio reported. &nbsp; The European Commission originally set the deadline for the beginning of August, but the Regional Development Ministry &#8230; <a title=\"EC Postpones Deadline To Respond To Audit On Babis&#8217; Conflict Of Interest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/ec-postpones-deadline-to-respond-to-audit-on-babis-conflict-of-interest\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EC Postpones Deadline To Respond To Audit On Babis&#8217; Conflict Of Interest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2598,"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":[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>EC Postpones Deadline To Respond To Audit On Babis&#039; Conflict Of Interest - 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\/ec-postpones-deadline-to-respond-to-audit-on-babis-conflict-of-interest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EC Postpones Deadline To Respond To Audit On Babis&#039; Conflict Of Interest - Prague Business Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The European Commission has agreed to postpone the deadline by which the Czech Republic must respond to the Commission\u2019s first draft audit on Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161\u2019 suspected conflict of interest until September 2, Czech Radio reported. &nbsp; The European Commission originally set the deadline for the beginning of August, but the Regional Development Ministry ... 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