The political commentator Tomas Sedlacek wrote in the daily Hospodarske noviny that the Czech refusal to sign onto the EU stability pact is typical of its approach to Europe: always ready to receive, never willing to give. He warns that it’s symptomatic of a country with no clear vision of the future of its economy, or its eventual role in Europe. Sedlacek points out that for the first time, the term EU 25 is being used, to denote the absence of the Czech Republic and the U.K., which also refused to sign the stability pact.
