Foreign minister expresses hope treaty will be ratified by year’s end

In related news, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has expressed the hope that the Lisbon Treaty, which overhauls the EU’s institutions, will be ratified by Prague by the year’s end. Prague takes up the EU presidency for a six-month period on January 1, 2009. But the foreign minister admitted the situation had been complicated through the involvement of the country’s constitutional court. He expressed the hope that a decision might be handed down by the court in the early autumn, so that the Czech parliament could decide on ratification in November.

Author: Jan Velinger