President to replace outgoing PM at EU summit

President Klaus will attend a European Union summit in Brussels next week and present the Czech position on the draft European constitution instead of the prime minister, the daily Lidove Noviny says in its Wednesday edition. The EU constitution will be one of the main topics discussed at the summit. Mr Klaus is strongly critical of the proposed constitution, and the prime minister has allegedly agreed to have the president replace him at the EU summit, since, as he said, Czechs had just elected "a Eurosceptical government".