Current Affairs Klaus knows Sudeten German property issue “emotional”, says pundit Pehe
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, may have surprised everyone with his new condition for signing the Lisbon treaty, but here in the Czech Republic the argument that the treaty may undermine the country’s post-war Beneš decrees is not altogether new. Such rhetoric was used by several Eurosceptic parties in the run-up to this summer’s elections to the European Parliament. Many pundits agree that President Klaus has brought up a sensitive subject by suggesting Lisbon could open the door to German property claims. Earlier today, I spoke to political analyst Jiří Pehe to ask whether he believed Mr Klaus’s fears about Lisbon may be founded:
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