The snippet last week on Vaclav Klaus's forthcoming Presidency of the European Council (see our newsletter No 9783) was careful to avoid speaking about the Czech Presidency in general. The euro-sceptic views of the Czech Republic's president and his (explicitly acknowledged) dissident attitude towards the EU are of relevance only to himself, and it is right that we should have confidence in the ministers who will chair the Community Council in its various configurations. This confidence on...