Pehe: Prague should beware of ending up marginalised in EU

The two-speed Europe project tends to split the Visegrad Four group, commentator Jiri Pehe wrote in Pravo on Thursday, adding that Slovakia might drift away from the V4 towards the EU's hard core, which would throw the Czech Republic under a stronger influence of Hungary and Poland. The two-speed Europe scenario is becoming more and more probable and the Czechs and Slovaks, or the two successor states to the former Czechoslovakia, face the urgent question of whether to seek participation in the EU's hard core or prefer their membership of the V4 grouping, Pehe writes.