ABSTRACT
The Czech Republic is not usually ranked among countries supporting European integration enthusiastically and unreservedly. The fall of the Czech government midway through the Czech presidency of the EU Council, and especially the complications the Czech president Václav Klaus created around the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, remain in living memory (Rybář 2010, 51–52). Klaus’s Eurosceptic attitude is sometimes identified with the Czech political mainstream, but as we shall see the spectrum of opinions expressed by Czech political parties is substantially wider.
