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EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv last September (Photo: European Commission)

Fears on migration plus Ukraine summit This WEEK

Former army chief and Nato official Petr Pavel won the Czech Republic's presidential election last Saturday, defeating billionaire ex-premier Andrej Babiš.

Pavel pledged to keep the country firmly anchored in the West, ran as an independent and won 58.3 percent of the vote, Reuters reported.

"Values such as truth, dignity, respect and humility won," he said Saturday.

"I am convinced that these values are shared by the vast majority of us, it is worth us trying to make them ...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv last September (Photo: European Commission)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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