Civic Democratic Party

Right-winger Petr Fiala was named the Czech Republic's new prime minister on Nov. 28 in an unusual ceremony, with wheelchair-bound President Milos Zeman speaking from behind a plastic barrier because he has COVID-19.

That said, there's plenty of time for spin, scandal and scheming to change the course. "It will be interesting to see how Ano's marketers will camouflage Babis's failures in leadership," Otto Eibl, an assistant professor in political science at Masaryk University, told BIRN.

The House of Representatives of Bosnia's Federation entity is due to vote late Friday on the new labour law - part of the reform agenda that Bosnia's leaders have agreed with the international community and one of the conditions for getting a new loan from the International Monetary Fund and reopening Bosnia's path towards eventual EU membership.