Current Affairs Low turnout at meeting of ministers confirms lame duck nature of Czech EU presidency since fall of government

24-04-2009 16:08 | Ian Willoughby

If there were any doubts that the Czech Republic’s presidency of the EU effectively ended when the country’s government fell last month, they were dispelled on Thursday, when only a handful of the bloc’s regional development ministers came to a Czech-hosted meeting. On top of that, the creator of a controversial sculpture in Brussels says he will remove it before the Czech presidency ends, in protest at the toppling of the government at such an important time.

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