Czech PM must resign if conflict of interest is confirmed, say MEPs

Leaked report from stormy visit to Prague tells Andrej BabiA to stamp out 'oligarchies'

The Czech government needs to stamp out "oligarchic structures" in the spending of European funds, a leaked EU report into an alleged conflict of interest centred on the country's billionaire prime minister, Andrej BabiA, has concluded.

The report, by the European parliament's budgetary control committee, calls on BabiA to stand down as prime minister or sell his business, if a conflict of interest is confirmed. BabiA should also renounce his seat at the table in upcoming negotiations on the European Union's next seven-year budget "until his potential conflict of interests is fully resolved", the MEPs say.