Foreign and defence policy

TOP 09: The Czech Republic Must Not Be a Free Rider on Security. We Propose Enshrining NATO and EU Membership in the Constitution

The Czech Republic has marked 27 years since joining the North Atlantic Alliance. According to TOP 09, this anniversary is not only a reminder of the country's return to the community of democratic nations, but also of its commitment to take responsibility for its own security and that of its allies. For this reason, TOP 09 proposes enshrining membership in NATO and the EU in the Constitution, as well as establishing a new parliamentary subcommittee on transatlantic cooperation.

Ženíšek: We belong to the West and the V4 in the history books. Its continuation no longer makes sense

The Visegrad Group has succeeded in bringing these four post-communist countries together as members of the Euro-Atlantic structures after 1989, and this will surely also give it a worthy place in our history. This is even though Slovakia had to wait until 2004 to join NATO, while the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary became the first Eastern Bloc countries to join NATO in 1999.

Marek Ženíšek: The defence treaty with the US does not mean that an American base will be built here. Unfortunately

Marek Ženíšek (TOP 09), MP and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, in an interview for the daily FORUM 24, refuses and explains the greatest nonsense that is being spread in connection with the ratification of the Czech-American Defence Treaty (DCA). In his words, no one is losing sovereignty, which is proven by the fact that a number of other countries, including Hungary, which Tomio Okamura considers to be our model, have concluded a similar document.

TOP 09 clearly supports the defence agreement

During the meeting of the Chamber of Deputies, TOP 09 unequivocally supported the approval of the defence agreement between the Czech Republic and the USA. This is a classic international treaty concluded between two sovereign states and a member of NATO.

Support for Alexei Navalny from TOP 09 party chairwoman Markéta Pekarová Adamová