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Small EU Countries Harmed by Czech PM Resignation
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Topolanek's cabinet was forced to resign after a non-confidence vote passed the Czech parliament on March 24. File photo
The Czech government's collapse while the country holds the EU presidency harms all small European countries.
Former Czech Prime Minister, Mirek Topolanek, made this statement Saturday in an interview for the Czech DNES Daily, BGNES reported.
Topolanek's cabinet was forced to resign after a non-confidence vote passed the Czech parliament on March 24.
"All post-communist countries and other small countries in Europe... relied on us to handle the presidency well... We persuaded everyone that a small or medium-sized country is able to steer the EU. And now, suddenly, everybody says the small countries can't do this, and that it is up to the big daddy to supervise things", Topolanek said.
The Czech Republic's European Union presidency ends on June 30. The Czechs will later be in charge of EU summits with Russia and China in May, as well as of an EU council meeting in June.
Jan Fischer was appointed April 9 as the new Czech Prime Minister by President Vaclav Klaus. Former Head of the Czech Statistical Office Fischer will formerly take over next month, and lead the country until elections due in October.
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