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Czech Minister of European Affairs Bek: ‘Gas emergency plan is not the final solution’

The EU must prepare for the total shutdown of Russian gas supplies, says the Czech Minister for European Affairs Mikuláš Bek in an interview with Hans-Peter Siebenhaar. This also means that the gas emergency plan would have to be adjusted at short notice if necessary.
Mikuláš Bek has been Minister for European Affairs in Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s government in Prague since December 2021.

Mikuláš Bek is a member of the liberal center-right movement “Mayors and Independents” (Starostové a nezávislí – STAN). The musicologist served as director of Masaryk University in Brno from 2011 to 2019. Bek speaks fluent German, and studied at Berlin’s Humboldt University as a doctoral student in 1990. Since 2018, the 58-year-old has been a member of the Czech Senate.

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