EU flags to be at all Czech castles except Prague, Klaus's seat

Prague - Prague Castle, seat of Eurosceptical President Vaclav Klaus, will be the only state-controlled castle and chateau in which the EU flag will not be hoisted during the ongoing Czech EU presidency, spokesman for the National Heritage Institute (NPU) Zdenek Musil told CTK today.

Klaus, a prominent critic of the Lisbon treaty and the current trends in the EU, has always refused to hoist the EU flag at Prague Castle, the biggest heritage site in the Czech Republic.

Klaus is of the view that the EU should never be at Prague Castle as this is a symbol of the Czech state, not of the EU. Nevertheless, Greenpeace activists hoisted the EU flag at Prague Castle for a short time on Wednesday night before being ousted by the police and firemen.

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As shown in the photo above, NPU staff hoisted the first EU flags on Wednesday at the castles and chateaux that are opened all year. It has appeared at the Karlstejn, Hluboka, Becov nad Teplou and Lednice castles. EU foreign ministers will meet at the Hluboka neo-Gothic chateau in March. The NPU, that administers a large part of the Czech national heritage, has started to put up the EU flag, thus joining the shared European historical legacy, Musil said.


The Czech Republic took up the six-month EU presidency on New Year's Day.



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