Special European Council

The director of our Institute, Vladimír Bartovic, commented for iRozhlas news portal on the Special European Council meeting on Wednesday, 19 August 2020. The main topic of discussion of European leaders will be foreign policy issues regarding the current situation in Belarus.

n Tuesday's (July 21st) broadcast of Rádio Slovensko, the director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Vladimír Bartovic, commented on the topic of the recovery fund, the form and division of finances which were agreed upon by the leaders of the European Union member states after the Special European Council.

The director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Vladimír Bartovic, was the guest of the afternoon broadcast of the Czech Radio Plus station on Monday, July 20. In his commentary, he provided an analysis of the special European Council.

The Special European Council was the first major foreign policy test for Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič. Vladimír Bartovic, director of our Institute, commented on the topic of challenges and expectations in this regard for the Slovak news portal Pravda.sk.

Within the project called Czech Interests in the EU, experts and researchers examine whether and how the interests of the Czech Republic are being carried through in European institutions. The result of the survey is the regularly published Index of Czech Interests. The topic of the first one is the response to the economic recession following the Special European Council.