Current Affairs Eurosceptic Czech senators employ new tactic in efforts to block Lisbon treaty

19-08-2009 16:00 | Ian Willoughby

The Czech Republic is one of the few countries in the EU not to have ratified the Lisbon treaty. Though both houses of parliament have approved ratification, the president is currently refusing to put his signature to it. Meanwhile, a group of Eurosceptic senators are also employing delaying tactics: they are going to send a freshly announced petition to the Czech Constitutional Court, ahead of a challenge to the document itself.

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