Josef Mlejnek Jr.
Josef Mlejnek Jr. is a Czech political scientist and journalist, specialising in the transition to democratic systems in Central and Eastern Europe. He works for the daily Lidové noviny, for Revue politika, and for Czech public radio Český rozhlas.
Updated: 20 December 2011
Twenty years after the "return to Europe" championed by former President Václav Havel, who died on December 18, the debate about the Czech Republic's relationship with the EU is dominated by two political camps that are both devoid of real ideas about the union's future.