{"id":94406,"date":"2018-07-27T20:19:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ae311f1099a22fc8ec36910af779d9d9"},"modified":"2018-07-27T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:19:57","slug":"press-release-pm-meeting-with-prime-minister-andrej-babis-of-the-czech-republic-27-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=94406","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Babis of the Czech Republic: 27 July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The two leaders began with an update on Brexit with the PM setting out the proposals in the UK\u2019s White Paper with the government\u2019s proposals for a future relationship with the EU.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">She highlighted that a UK-EU free trade area would maintain frictionless trade that would enable businesses across Europe to maintain their vital integrated supply chains.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They agreed it was important to find a solution and that negotiations should continue at pace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Prime Minister Babis commented that migration continues to be a pressing issue for Europe. The leaders agreed that it was important to tackle the issue on a number of fronts &#8211; including tackling unscrupulous people smuggling gangs and improving communication efforts to ensure that people did not undertake perilous journeys in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The leaders also discussed the recent meeting between President Trump and President Juncker on US-EU trade, welcoming the progress they made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They closed by reaffirming their commitment to an ongoing close bilateral relationship between the UK and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May met Prime Minister Andrej Babis of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}