The Prague putsch harms the EU

The toppling of Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek won't just harm the government in Prague, the left-leaning daily die tageszeitung writes: "The European Union can no longer afford to have six-month apprentices as president. We expect no less from the leader of the Union than a solid monetary policy, a stabilisation of the financial markets, a coherent energy policy and the safeguarding of energy supplies - to name just a few of the problems at hand. But to make matters worse, the government crisis in Prague is also blocking the necessary European constitutional reform, because it serves Czech president Václav Klaus as a pretence for putting off signing the Treaty of Lisbon. And so the putsch of the supposedly Europe-friendly Czech Social Democrats harms not only their own government, but all of Europe."

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