European Union leaders, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on Tuesday criticised the Czech Republic’s eurosceptic president, weeks before his country assumes the EU presidency. Among the main bones of contention is Klaus’s unwillingness to let the European flag fly from the presidential Prague Castle and a recent diplomatic incident when Klaus met a delegation of EU parliamentarians visiting Prague. “We were upset when all the European flags were withdrawn from public buildings,” Sarkozy said.
