New Deal May Prompt Czech Ratification Of Lisbon Treaty

The eurosceptic Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, has hinted that a new Swedish-proposed deal may satisfy his worries about the Lisbon Treaty, and may prompt him to sign it into law in the coming weeks. This would be the final hurdle cleared for the impending 'European Constitution', and with the Irish foreign minister having signed all of the necessary documents in the past 24 hours, our new laws may be governing our continent before we know it.

October.27.2009 - George Valentine Corr, Blatant News Editor
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THE NEW SWEDISH-PROPOSED DEAL
With Sweden holding the 6-monthly rotating 'European Presidency' since July, after ironically taking over from the Czech Republic, it was up to them to sort out the Czech issue, and they now seem to have come up with a plan which may suit all sides. While the Swedish president, Fredrik Reinfeldt, is critical of the Czech hold-up, his government have tabled an idea which would see the Czech Republic join both the United Kingdom and Poland as having an opt-out wrote into the Lisbon Treaty. Like the Brits and the Poles, who both negotiated their opt-out's separately in 2007, the Czech's would have their own version of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. While staunchly Catholic Poland's opt-out's relate to worries over gay marriages and abortions, and Britain's are based around labour rights, the eurosceptic Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, is holding out for reassurances that native German's who had previously lived in what is now the Czech Republic, before the end of World War II, could not return and claim property which did belong to them.

COULD IT BE THAT SIMPLE?
It would be a little surprising if this will be enough to placate Klaus, as he is dead-set against this controlling treaty, but maybe there is nothing else he feels he can do to stop it becoming law. It is also a little surprising that the EU have not tabled this idea long before now, considering it is simple, obvious, and has worked in previous negotiations with both Poland and the UK. What is evident is the Czech government want to get this treaty ratified as quickly as possible, and the Czech president cannot hold out any longer against the full might of his own government and the EU parliament combined. This is some form of last stand by him, and he possibly knows this and is therefore ensuring that he atleast gets this important issue of land sovereignty dealt with in the Lisbon Treaty. The Swede's and the EU are both saying that they are now confident of getting Vaclav Klaus to sign this into law very soon, so that may be just about to happen. That is, unless he has other tricks up his sleeve, but it really is hard to see any other avenues for him to go down, especially as we here in Ireland have already sold ourselves entirely. This is now, singularly, a Czech problem, and it may go away very soon indeed.

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