The Czechs are in danger of becoming the EU’s weakest link

MURPHY’s law seems to prevail in the EU as in many other spheres. Just when the union needs to concentrate very closely on getting its act together on the global economic crisis, a sideshow threatens to take over.

The Czech government’s fall during the week was compounded in the European Parliament by its prime minister’s undiplomatic description of the US stimulus agenda as the “road to hell”.

The problem is that the Czechs hold the EU’s rotating presidency — an attempt to give all member states hands-on experience at the helm of the union for six months.