Czech Republic

In the new EU MONITOR, our research fellow Vít Havelka comments on the Conference on the Future of Europe from the perspective of the Czech Republic. He mentions the approach of the Czech government and the public to the policies debated at the Conference.

The director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy Vladimír Bartovic was a guest of Good Morning Europe, broadcast of Euronews. The interview covered the current worsening of international relationship between The Czech Republic and Russia which escalated because of the explosion of an ammunitions storage depot at Vrbětice.

In his latest contribution, Márk Szabó deals with the issue of relations of the Visegrad Group, especially its internal coherence, but also the relationship with the EU.

Our research fellow Vít Havelka was cited in the Netherland magazine Het Financieele Dagblad, who informed about the Czech politician's decision regarding food self-sufficiency.

European vaccination champion. This is what Denmark is talking about and how it is coping with the current coronavirus crisis. What makes the Danes so successful? What does their government communication look like and why do Danish citizens trust their government? These questions are answered in the Checkpoint podcast by Christian Kvorning Lassen, Deputy Director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy.

The most valuable commodity in Denmark is trust, both in public officials, politicians or experts, and among people and in the political system as such. People from all walks of life try to maintain this unwritten social contract and maintain mutual trust. Christian Kvorning Lassen, Deputy Director of the Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM writes for Czech Interests in the EU.

On behalf of the Jean Monnet Center for European Studies of the Institute of International Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, we would like to invite you to the webinar "Law and Covid-19: Second Wave, First Impressions" European legal order. The webinar is organized in cooperation with EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy. The meeting will take place ONLINE on Thursday 26 November 2020 from 17:00 to 18:30.

Vít Havelka presents a review of the Czech EU Policy in the last year. He focused on EU Top Jobs, Single Market & Economic policies, Justice and Home Affairs and Foreign and Defence Policy.

In the background article for the debate of the same name from the Prague Climate Talks series (October 26), David Němeček examines how to sustainably finance climate neutrality in the Czech Republic.

Zuzana Stuchlíková, Associate Research Fellow at Europeum, is a host in Visegrad Insight Podcast, discussing Czech elections in October and explaining to us what are Czechia's foreign policy priorities in the EU but also with particular reference to the rule of law.

We would like to invite you to another debate from the series "What EU do we want to have in 2025?" This time we will discuss the topic of social policy of the EU, greater harmonization of national systems, as well as we will argue whether greater integration is worth it in the case of the Czech Republic. The debate will take place on Wednesday, 30 September 2020 from 17:30.

Our researcher Kateřina Davidová recently published an article on news portal Info.cz which deals with the topic of decreasing of the European emissions. The author opens the topic of Czech sceptical approach towards the new climate plan which was published by the European Commission mid-September.