The Prime Minister strongly promised that he would not accept the communist request to cut the defense budget down by 10 billion Crowns. In the end he eventually did accept it, saying that the opposition was to blame, because it did not want to approve the Government's proposal for the entire budget, so the Government needed the …
In an interview for the Právo journal, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš assured the public that the 10 billion crowns, lost as part of the Communist requirement in the process of approving the state budget, will be returned to the Army budget in January.
The Communists insist on their demand to cut 10 billion crowns from the budget of the Ministry of Defense and transfer them to the Government's budget reserve to help the country fight the coronavirus pandemic, as they say. If their request is not met, the Communist Party (KSČM) will not support the draft state budget for next year. …
Within two months, Prime Minister Babiš fundamentally reconsidered his approach to the Army contract for the acquisition of 210 tracked IFVs. On 17th March he said that we probably don't need the IFVs immediately and a month later he told the Czech Television: At the moment there is probably no situation for us to purchase the …