Civic Democrat Senator says anti-Lisbon challenge to be ready within two months

In related news, one of the Civic Democrat senators leading moves to launch a new challenge at the Czech Constitutional Court to the EU’s Lisbon treaty has said it should be prepared within two months. Senator Jiří Oberfalzer made the comments after a meeting with Czech President and eurosceptic Václav Klaus. He added that he already had the 17 signatures needed to launch the challenge. The Senate vote last week in favour of the Lisbon treaty has opened up a war of words with President Klaus who has attacked what he described as a betrayal. Senate chairman Přemysl Sobotka has hit back, reminding the Czech president that the upper chamber is a sovereign body to which Mr. Klaus owed his re-election as head of state.