Bohuslav Sobotka 🇨🇿

"He spoke of a Europe in which borders between states will play an increasingly smaller role, until they disappear completely.""

"I think that is short-sighted and dangerous for the future.”"

"Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka spoke on Thursday, March 31, 2016 as part of a working trip to the United States of America at the Brookings Institution on the topic "Challenges for the future of the EU: a Central European perspective.""

"I would like to congratulate you on your anniversary and wish you at least another hundred years of quality, independence and influence.”"

"This cohesion has been very complexly built and negotiated since the 1950s and culminated in the expansion of the European Union to include the states of the former Eastern Bloc, including the Czech Republic.""

"We have to realize that if we do not successfully engage ourselves in Europe, no one else will do it for us.""

"As the current chairman country of the Visegrad Group, in which we are associated together with Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, the Czech Republic is intensively advocating for increasing aid to the countries most affected by the refugee crisis."

"In this century of your existence, you have become one of the most respected think tanks in the United States and beyond.”"

"Today, Europe is struggling with problems on many fronts - it was the Greek debt crisis, it was the illegal annexation of Crimea and the military destabilization of eastern Ukraine, the civil war in Syria, the Islamic State, the terrorism inspired by it, and also the migration and refugee crisis.""

"That's why I consider building and deepening the transatlantic link and cooperation within NATO to be one of the main priorities that Europe must focus on.""