Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg is to visit Berlin on Monday as Prague prepares for a six-month term in the presidency of the European Union, diplomats said Friday, according to dpa. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to present him with one of Germany's highest honours, the Grand Cross of the Order of Germany, when they meet, the Foreign Ministry in Berlin said. Schwarzenberg, who lived in Austria and Germany before the end of communism in his homeland, is to address a select group of German legislators in a meeting room at the parliament building in Berlin during the stay. Prague takes over the EU presidency on January 1 from France.
