The Government announced that it would initiate a discussion in taking steps that would bring about ratification of the Treaty on stability, coordination, and governance within the Economic and Monetary Union (the so-called Fiscal Compact) and primarily the Czech accession to the Treaty. In general,...

The foreign ministers of the EU-28 held an extraordinary meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on 20 February following a wave of violence in Ukraine after a longer stalemate between the opposition and Mr. Yanukovych´s government. After only two hours of discussion, the ministers reached cons...

During the presentation of the European Commission´s corruption report on 3 February, the Commissioner Malmstroem stated that the extent of corruption in the EU is “breathtaking” and costs every year at least a year´s budget of the Union, that is €120 billion. The long-awaited complex report by the ...

A group of deputies proposed the Bill on General Referendum. The Bill should stipulate under which conditions the referendum may be held, affairs that may be decided by voters in the referendum, and the formal, legal procedure in which the referendum is held. An initiative should precede the refere...