Opinion | ČTK
Klaus: Questions around Lisbon unanswered after court verdict

Tuesday's verdict of the German Constitutional Court on the Lisbon Treaty was not surprising but fundamental questions still remain unanswered, President Václav Klaus writes in a Mladá fronta Dnes article.
Opinion | ČTK
Právo: EU presidency failure of Czech politicians

Instead of a successful leadership of the EU, Czech politicians presented a series of petty disputes between themselves and ideological chaos in the past six months, Právo's Michal Mocek writes.
Opinion | Hospodářské noviny
The top prince MonitorPlus

Karel Schwarzenberg has switched parties three times, and he also didn’t fulfil his pledge that he would give up his beloved ministry post if he were forced to work with Jiří Čunek, a man suspected of corruption. But Schwarzenberg gets away with it.
Opinion | Guardian.co.uk
Greens won't cheer when Swedes take over EU presidency from the Czechs

A nation whose president flatly denies that climate change is caused by people is being replaced by one of the world's greenest countries.
Opinion | Hospodářské noviny
How America perceived the Czech EU presidency MonitorPlus

The words "tragedy" and "failure" came up. What went wrong from the US administration's perspective?
Opinion | ČTK
ČSSD leader seeking turn to Russia

Jiří Paroubek's recent visit to Russia was not quite a public, but massive demonstration of bilateral goodwill, political analyst Bohumil Doležal writes in Monday's Lidové noviny.
Opinion | Hospodářské noviny
Who's to blame for the floods? MonitorPlus

Politicians and various lobbyists create whatever explanations for the recent floods that they find most convenient.
Opinion | Týden.cz
How Klaus baffled Barroso and Solana with his Russian MonitorPlus

Knowing foreign languages is becoming more important in the world of politics, especially at the EU level, Johanna Grohová writes in Týden.cz.
Opinion | ČTK
LN: Prague ascribes excessive importance to West's opinion

The Czechs are "masochistically" eager to see what mistakes Brussels will rebuke them for in connection with their EU presidency, and they tend to blindly accept the West's opinions, which in fact reflects their immaturity, Martin Weiss wrote in daily Lidové noviny Friday.
Talk Back | Prague Daily Monitor
Facebook causes. Because we can.

Facebook has become a part of life for almost 1 million Czechs. It promotes causes close to home, as well as causes in foreign countries. Supporting them is just a click away.
Opinion | Hospodářské noviny
Vladimír Dlouhý: We definitely need to start saving now MonitorPlus

The former industry and trade minister comments on the measures that are necessary for the economic situation to improve.
Opinion | CBW
Time to stop the EU carousel

As the Czech presidency of the EU draws to a close, the world does not seem to be a better place. Little headway was made on most issues, aside from some emergency economic packages.