Will Sarkozy remain EU Council president?
According to a press report, when his EU Council presidency ends at the end of the year French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to remain at the centre of Europolitics as leader of the Eurogroup. The Czech Republic will be the next country to hold the rotating EU presidency. The Prague-based newspaper Pražský deník asks whether it would be such a bad thing if Sarkozy were indeed to continue as EU Council president. “The troop of Czech Eurosceptics has nothing to offer Europe anyway. It has neither been able to diagnose the present crisis nor produce a prescription or a remedy. For sure, this is a delicate matter because it could convey the impression that the French are simply better. But to be frank, virtually any other country would be able to do the EU better service than our ‘association of the friends of US President Bush’. Naturally, Europe has experienced worse things in its past than the threat of a Czech presidency, but our politicians needn’t force themselves to don a mask of
