On Monday 19 July, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, officially handed over to the Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babiš, the European Union institution’s positive assessment of his country’s recovery plan.
The Czech plan, which will be endowed with “7 billion euros” in grants, will devote “41.6%” and “22%” of this envelope to the environmental and digital transitions respectively, Mr Babiš said. Claiming that he was not personally involved in the...