Government in Czech
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CZECH, 2017/05/03
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CZECH, 2013/07/28
The new Czech government sworn in earlier this month could alter the country's position on several EU topics.
In recent years, the Czech republic has been an ally of the United Kingdom in several high-profile political punch-ups in Brussels.
For one, its previous government refused to join the "fiscal compact" on EU budget discipline. The centre-right former PM, Petr Necas, was also opposed to taking the country into the euro and opposed to joining the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) on EU banks.
We all know what the former president, Vaclav Klaus, thought about the EU. But the new centre-left government of PM Jiri Rusnok is very close to the country's new President, Milos Zeman, who advocates swift euro-adoption.
Rusnok's cabinet also contains several pro-EU ministers, at least when measured by Czech standards.
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CZECH, 2013/01/12
Czechs are voting in a new President over the weekend as the incumbent and eurosceptic Vaclav Klaus prepares to step down. The voting will take place on Friday and Saturday with two former prime ministers in the running. Klaus famously delayed signing the Lisbon Treaty in 2009.
