PRAGUE – Placid and stolid, the Czech Republic revels in its reputation as the level-headed heart of central Europe, a sort of Bohemian version of Switzerland. So why can’t the country place a boring and uncontroversial president in the hulking Prague Castle?
While Czechs are among the central Europeans least likely to migrate (why leave a place where beer is so cheap and plentiful?), and owning a simple rural cottage called a “chata” is the acme of national ambition, all three Czech presidents have been larger-than-life figures casting bigger shadows on the world stage than their 10 million-strong homeland would suggest.
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Source: European Voice
