Tsjechisch EU-voorzitterschap begaat veiligheidsblunder (en) - Hoofdinhoud
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Czech EU presidency has admitted to a security blunder that saw personal details of EU summit delegates put on a public computer.
A Finnish citizen at a Prague hotel after the EU-US summit on 5 April found the passport numbers and travel itineraries of around 200 summit delegates, including Finnish President Tarja Hallonen and Prime Minister Vatti Hannen, Finnish agency STT reported late last week.
Finnish police criticised the lapse, which is being played down by the Czech government.
"The file contained no confidential information according to Czech law and it contained a minimum of information that might have been seen as sensitive," it said in a statement.
"The unlucky situation was caused by unintentional human error of one of our employees ...we have taken the necessary personnel policy measures."
The EU-US summit was the jewel in the crown of the Czech's EU chairmanship so far. But the event was already marred by the fall of the Czech government 10 days earlier over domestic politics.
An upcoming Eastern Partnership summit on 7 May could also prove tricky - Czech President Vaclav Klaus i has said that if Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko comes to Prague, he will not shake his hand or host him in his castle.
Outgoing Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek i in an interview earlier this month said the Czech slip-ups could prove costly to others.
"All post-Communist countries and other small countries in Europe ...relied on us to handle the presidency well," he told the Czech DNES daily. "And now, suddenly, everybody says the small countries can't do this."
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