Sarkozy to visit Prague in mid-June

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is scheduled to travel to the Czech Republic next month to meet with the prime ministers of the Visegrad Four. The visit has been set for June 16 and is to take place in the Czech Senate. Topics on the agenda will include the upcoming EU presidencies; France is to take up the presidency on July 1, the Czech Republic on the first of January. Among priorities for the French are energy and the climate while the Czech Republic is focussing on the removal of barriers between EU states. Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Prague will be the first by a French president since 1997 – excluding Jacques Chirac’s attendance at the NATO summit in 2002.