Zelené linky Praha-Brusel. Vývoj vztahů českých a evropských zelených
Green Lines Prague-Brussels. The Development of Relations Between Czech and European Greens

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the text describes the development of contacts between various pacifist and green initiatives in Western Europe on one side, and part of Czech dissent on the other. It explains the factors that led – despite early euphoria and the affinity of some West-European and Czech ecological politicians – to the gradual cooling of relations between European and Czech Greens. The next part is dedicated to the role of some West-European Greens in the “dark-green” revolution in the Czech Green Party from 2002–03, their eventual disappointment, as well as the influence of intra-party conflict in the Czech Green Party concerning the structure of the European Greens. The subsequent section is a description and explanation of the direct interference by some European green politicians in conflict within the Czech Green Party, involving Milan Horáček, Petr Uhl and Ivan Dejmal on one side and Jakub Patočka and Jan Beránek on the other. The text also deals with the activities of Milan Horáček – the first Czech deputy from the (German) Greens, as well as relations between the youth sections of the European and Czech Greens. The article concludes with a prediction of future relations between Bursík’s Czech Green Party and Patočka’s Czech Green Party on one side, and European Greens on the other.

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