President Topolánek's skill in dialectics. Indiscretion, supposition, contradictory views: we have had them all with the convening of the informal European summit on 1 March. The letter from Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy to the president of the European Council Mirek Topolánek was clear: they called for an extraordinary summit on the financial and economic crisis, expecting guidelines and some suggestions (see below). The Czech prime minister agreed to the request, but changed the main...