EU presidency

Our researcher Vojtěch Freitag, in his article "French presidency of the EU and Strategic Compass: More EU military missions to come?", writes about France and its presidency of the European Union. France has put forward its vision of the next year EU agenda with a strong emphasis on EU sovereignty.

In an article for iRozhlas, our researcher Vít Havelka contributed an analysis of European politics in the context of the new government, the Visegrad Group and the upcoming EU presidency. In his opinion, there will be a radical change in the rhetoric and the way of negotiation on the European stage, but we cannot expect big differences in the Czech vote.

In his policy paper, Vít Havelka deals with the matter of the Czech EU presidency and what needs to be done for it to be successful.

On December 15, the very last debate of 2020 from the series EU± took place. The debate was organized by the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy and the Department of European Studies of FSV UK. The topic of „Portuguese and Czech Presidency of the EU Council” was discussed by Ambassador of Portugal to the Czech Republic Luís de Almeida Sampaio, our Associate Research Fellow Zuzana Stuchlíková and former Permanent Representative to the EU Milena Vicenová. The debate took place in English and was charied by Tomáš Weiss, researcher, and head of the Department of European Studies FSV UK.

Christian Kvorning Lassen from EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy together with Jan Kovář from Institute of International Relations Prague wrote a commentary "Czechia: economic recovery at the expense of climate and solidarity" for the EPIN Report publication, concerned with Germany's EU Council presidency, which starts in July.

Our Zuzana Stuchlíková in an interview for the Czech Radio on the topic of Romanian EU presidency and its domestic policy.

Our Zuzana Stuchlíková was a guest of the Studio ČT24 where she commented on the Romania's EU presidency and its priorities.

Our Zuzana Stuchlíková commented on the upcoming Romania’s EU presidency for Slovak TA3 television.

Ten years have passed since the first and only Czech EU presidency in 2009. Our Vít Havelka commented on this anniversary for the Czech TV.

Our Vít Havelka was a guest of the morning Studio 6 where he commented on the upcoming Romania's EU presidency.

The EU's poorest member state, and said to be its most corrupt, takes up the rotating presidency of the EU Council