The Czech Republic is free to choose. The time may have come to point out that membership of the EU isn't obligatory. All the States which belong to it asked to join, some of them even having to stamp their feet when their request came up against reservations or delays. In May 1950, Robert Schuman's appeal was sent out to Germany alone at first. Konrad Adenauer replied that he felt that the achievement of the French proposal was his most important task and that if he managed to carry it...