Foreign policy consultations at Prague Castle

President Klaus invited three government ministers to Prague Castle on Tuesday for some foreign-policy fine tuning following the change of guard in Czech administration. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Topolanek, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexander Vondra and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg. President Klaus said after the meeting that these were no significant differences of opinion between himself and the new government regarding outstanding foreign policy issues such as the EU constitution or the possibility of the Czech Republic co-hosting a US missile-defense system.

In related news it was announced on Tuesday that Civic Democrat MEP Jan Zahradil would be the country's chief negotiator regarding all matters relating to the EU constitution.