The Czech Christian Democrats’ campaign for the EU elections got off to a rocky start earlier this month after it included a controversial line about immigration in its party programme.Continue Reading
The new Czech government sworn in earlier this month could alter the country’s position on several EU topics.Continue Reading
Judging from the first comments, last week’s grilling of the new commissioner-designate for enlargement and neighborhood policy Štefan Füle revealed to some a surprisingly promising figure for the European political landscape.Continue Reading
A group of centre-right Czech senators has attacked a national law linked with the EU’s Lisbon Treaty and plans to ask the country’s constitutional court to suspend ratification until the legislation is changed.Continue Reading
Wednesday’s summit between the European Union and China was intended to be a classic fence-mending showpiece, a sign of good relations between the two regions and a chance to talk-up co-operation in the face of the economic crisis, but events last week complicated the issue.Continue Reading
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has decided not to attend an employment summit being held in Prague on Thursday, delivering a further blow to the meeting, which was already downgraded from EU leader-level in March to that of a conference.Continue Reading
After hours of late-night negotiations on Monday (27 April), EU member states and MEPs officially abandoned trying to reach an agreement on updating a directive on working hours across the 27-nation bloc.Continue Reading
The Czech EU presidency is to invite five leaders to a summit promoting the non-Russian Nabucco gas pipeline project. But a Bulgarian event pushing the pro-Russian South Stream pipeline could be a damp squib.Continue Reading
The presidents of both the European Commission and the European Parliament on Wednesday urged the Czech Republic to proceed with the ratification of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty despite the fall of the Czech government the day before, while Czech deputy premier Alexandr Vondra admitted the ratification would now become “more difficult.”Continue Reading
© 2022 The Prague Monitor (Treeline s.r.o.)