Europe as a Task: Rethink, Rebuild, Repower is the main motto of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU. Europe is not just a name for the continent we live upon. It is first and foremost a collection of principles and values which we uphold and cherish together. The fundamental ones are freedom […]

We have grown up in the EU This is the name of the exhibition that will travel around the Czech Republic during the Czech Presidency. At the same time, the headline is also a kind of metaphor for our eighteen-year membership in the European Union. As well as young people at the age of eighteen, […]

DO YOU CONSIDER IRFC 2022 IN PRAGUE A SUCCESS? by OLTIS GROUP The IRFC 2022 conference was the largest conference of the railway sector during the Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union and a unique event in Central and Eastern Europe not only in terms of topics, but also in the participation […]

Roman ZDEBOR, Branch Managing Director, EDF Nuclear Czechia   Can you briefly present yourself and introduce us to EDF Nuclear Czechia? Its missions and objectives? My name is Roman Zdebor and since June 2022 I am the Branch Managing Director of EDF Nuclear Czechia. In the almost 30 years of experience in the nuclear industry, mainly […]

Czech Presidency to the EU – Bridge between East and West   The Presidency of the Czech Republic falls on one of the most difficult periods in Europe’s recent history. Russian bombs and missiles are destroying Ukrainian cities. Millions escaped to various EU countries. Millions of European citizens are under constant pressure of Russian propaganda […]

Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade   Can you briefly introduce us the Ministry of Industry and Trade?  The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) is the central state administration body for industrial, energy and raw materials policies, trade policy in the context of the EU Internal Market, pro-export policy, consumer rights protection, support […]

  Mr. Jaroslav Hanák, President of The Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic   Can you briefly introduce us to The Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic? The Confederation of Industry is the largest and most influential independent employers’ and business umbrella organisation in the Czech Republic representing more than 11,000 companies that employ […]

Ivan Bartoš, Deputy Prime Minister for Digitisation and Minister of Regional Development   As a Minister responsible, among others, for regional development, I will focus during the Czech Presidency on Cohesion Policy as a very important European investment tool helping Member States and their regions to develop. I would like to provide the EU with […]

The Czech Republic has always been at the heart of Europe.   Michal Fleischmann, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to France   The virtual transfer of the torch» of the French Presidency of the EU Council and the Czech Republic in Paris took place on the 30th. June on the Trocadéro esplanade with behind the Eiffel […]

2022, a Franco-Czech year for Europe French Ambassador in Czechia Alexis Dutertre Although relations between France and the Czech Republic are ancient, the partnership between our two countries has been amplified, immeasurably, by the succession of our presidencies of the Council of the European Union in 2022. We have never worked together as much as […]