The currently falling water levels in some places can't be anything other than the calm before the real storm.

The Czech Republic is ready to advise Macedonia on the road to EU.

But if that sum is not enough, we will seek alternative resources. I think that we will also turn to the European Union.

The whole issue is closed. The final compromise satisfies about 90, or even 95 percent of our demands. The Czech republic will not veto the VAT deal.

Sure, we still eat carp. But I don't put it in my bath and I do not do any of the killing. I don't like killing animals. I get someone in the market to do it for me. I buy the fish just a day before Christmas Eve. It will still be fresh. It's cold in Prague. You can keep it out on the balcony.

I don't foresee myself coming back in the next couple of weeks. But this is what I know, what I've worked for my whole life. I don't want it to be taken away.