Final Word from Wednesday, October 15, 2025
While the election winners and their sponsors jockey to divvy up whatever hasn't already been plundered, an even bigger battle is looming in the EU about the Green Deal. During the election campaign Petr Fiala and Andrej Babiš took turns blaming each other for setting all the Green Deal fires that are now threatening Czechs, but ex-Pres. Václav Klaus put things into perspective in late-July. He told iDnes.cz that despite his own opposition to European political integration (not economic integration, he stressed), he was the one who signed both the EU membership application and the accession document. If he hadn't, he said, he would have been removed from all his positions. Wouldn't that have happened to Babiš and Fiala too if they had opposed the Green Deal in the early days? Now it's different, or so it seems, because even Germany is starting to rear its head. But is it really any different? Aren't Czech politicians like Andrej Babiš and Karel Havlíček again merely doing what they absolutely must do? [ Czech Republic ANO ODS PM Chair entry European Union ETS2 parliamentary elections ]
Glossary of difficult words
to bash - fiercely to criticize or to oppose;
to loom - to seem to be about to happen;
to jockey - to struggle by every available means to gain or achieve something;
to divvy up - to share something between a number of people;
to rear one's head - to raise one's head; to appear and to cause problems or stress, esp. at an inopportune time.