A shift to the right in the Czech Republic. The populist billionaire Andrej Babis, winner of the parliamentary elections this October —and nicknamed the "Czech Trump"—, signed a coalition agreement on Monday with two far-right parties that support leaving the European Union and NATO. This marks Babis's return to power—after four years in opposition—with the hardline anti-immigration and nationalist stance that characterized his ANO movement, distancing himself from Brussels with commitments such as not allowing the introduction of the euro in the country, a commitment included in the investiture agreement itself.

With the The return of the prime ministership to tycoon Andrej Babis, the Czech Republic joins the disturbing Trumpist and at the same time Putinist sphere of the European Union. A Trojan horse that grows and becomes stronger. Look where, Andrej Babis comes, like the Hungarian Viktor Orbán, from the old communist nomenclature, and can understand perfectly with the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. All three have the same origins and know that preventing or obstructing aid to Ukraine is the best way to obtain Russian gas, even if the price to pay is to weaken the EU further.

Czech writer Ivan Klíma (Prague, 1931-2025) died this Saturday at the age of 94. A Holocaust survivor, Klíma focused his literature on narrating the impact of authoritarianism on people and the effects of living under totalitarian regimes. He did so in around forty books, two of which have been translated into Catalan: Love and Trash (Editions 62, 2002) and The spirit of Prague (Cuadernos Quema, 2010). His dissident voice developed primarily from his experiences as a child, between 1941 and 1945, in the Terezín concentration camp, where he was imprisoned by the Nazis. There he began to write, seeking refuge in his imagination. Klíma conveyed the horror he experienced during those years in some of his novels and short stories, especially in the book Judge on trial (1991).

A clear electoral victory for the populist ANO movement of billionaire Andrej Babis in the Czech Republic's legislative elections held on Friday and Saturday. But the "Czech Trump" will have to negotiate with two eurosceptic parties to form a government.