Czech Parliamentary Elections: Issues at stake and potential policy changes

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Background:

Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in the Czech Republic on 3 and 4 October 2025. Current opinion polls indicate that controversial businessman, and former Prime Minister (2017-2021), Andrej Babiš may win the elections and form a (coalition) government. 

What are the most important electoral promises? Are any major internal and external policy changes expected? Some candidates, to give an example, promise to reduce aid for Ukrainian refugees and question the Czech commitment to increasing military spending, as decided in Brussels. Several Czech parties are Eurosceptic.

Kateřina Šafaříková will explore the elections from  Czech and the European perspective.

Speaker:

Kateřina Šafaříková is a Czech journalist, staff writer and a head of OP-EDs desk at Sznam Zpràvy. Formerly she was a correspondent in Brussels for Hospodářské noviny and Aktuálně.cz. Previously, she worked as a reporter at RESPEKT Weekly. Šafaříková specialised in Czech foreign policy and EU. She is the laureate of the National Press Prize.   Based in Prague.

Format

Short presentation followed by Q&A

Concept and Moderation: Mirjana Tomic fjum/Presseclub Concordia

Target Audience: Journalists, media professionals and researchers

Maximum number of participants: 100