Czech president vows not to send ambassador to Pristina

Czech President Milos Zeman has spoken decisively against Catalonia's independence, as it would "open Pandora's box and start a chain reaction."

In a television interview, Zeman also recalled his position on Kosovo.

"Today Catalonia, tomorrow northern Italy, the day after Scotland, after that the Basque Country, because ETA would also want it. The following week Moravia; in Slovakia, the south… Cyprus has already been hit, and this would only immortalize the problem. No. Once you start that chain reaction, you will never stop," Zeman said during his regular weekly interview for private Czech broadcaster TV Barrandov.

The Czech president stressed that he is categorically opposed to independence of European regions, as this opens Pandora's box, and recalled that the referendum in Catalonia and the declaration of independence were carried out against the Constitution...