Current Affairs Is the Czech right becoming more Euro-sceptic?
The Civic Democrats, the right wing opposition party widely tipped to win the next parliamentary elections, have officially adopted a policy rejecting the planned European Constitution outright. This puts the party in line with the most firmly Euro-sceptic forces in the EU, such as the British Conservatives. Although the Civic Democrat's honorary chairman, President Vaclav Klaus, has never hidden his strongly Euro-sceptic views, this is the first time that the whole party leadership has come down behind him. But at the same time polls suggest that Civic Democrat voters are much less Euro-sceptic then the party itself. Martin Mikule phoned Ivo Slosarcik from the Prague Institute for European Policy, and asked him whether he saw a paradox in the party's stand.
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