{"id":38263,"date":"2025-12-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnews.cz\/?p=38263"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:23:06","slug":"ursula-von-der-leyen-praised-babiss-support-for-european-competitiveness-and-spoke-about-strengthening-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/neprehlednete\/ursula-von-der-leyenova-ocenila-babisovu-podporu-konkurenceschopnosti-evropy-a-hovorila-o-posileni-ukrajiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula von der Leyen praised Babi\u0161's support for European competitiveness and spoke about strengthening Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BRUSSELS \u2013 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Czech Prime Minister-designate Andrej Babi\u0161 in Brussels on 11 December 2025. According to a report by Czech Television (\u010cT24), von der Leyen described the meeting as \u201ea good meeting\u201c and praised Babi\u0161\u2019s \u201esupport for strengthening Europe\u2019s competitiveness\u201c on social media. According to \u010cT24, the two also discussed strengthening Ukraine \u201eon its path to a just and lasting peace\u201c and agreed to continue discussing these topics at the upcoming European Council meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting took place at the European Commission building in Brussels; according to available reports, it was a relatively short and formal meeting \u2013 a welcome, a group photo, the presentation of flowers, and subsequent closed-door talks. Babi\u0161 then continued on to further talks with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever and European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa, as confirmed by a report on \u010cT24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The context of the negotiations is also evident from international news reports: Reuters notes that intensive talks are currently underway in Brussels on options for financing further support for Ukraine, including proposals on how to use frozen Russian assets or mobilise loans on capital markets. According to Reuters, Ursula von der Leyen has held constructive discussions with other European leaders in recent days on ways to secure funds for Kyiv ahead of the December summit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting has both symbolic and practical significance for the Czech Republic: it was Andrej Babi\u0161's first meeting with EU leaders since his appointment as Prime Minister, and Babi\u0161 is expected to take a position ahead of the upcoming European Council summit, where leaders will decide on the form of further aid to Ukraine and on priorities for strengthening European competitiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>gnews.cz - GH<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS \u2013 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Czech Prime Minister-designate Andrej Babi\u0161 in Brussels on 11 December 2025.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2968,4,3,2973],"tags":[5754,8375,1157,840,4094,8374,755,17,29,533,41],"class_list":["post-38263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domaci","category-ekonomika","category-neprehlednete","category-zahranicni","tag-andrej-babis","tag-bruselske-jednani","tag-evropska-komise","tag-evropska-rada","tag-evropska-unie","tag-konkurenceschopnost-evropy","tag-mir","tag-top","tag-ukrajina","tag-ursula-von-der-leyenova","tag-world"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38264,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38263\/revisions\/38264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}