PM defends Czech stand on fiscal treaty

Speaking at his party’s ideological conference, Prime Minister Petr Nečas defended his decision for the Czech Republic to stay out of the EU’s fiscal treaty and slammed the opposition Social Democrats for misleading the public with regard to what it would bring. Mr. Nečas said the Social Democrats were capitalizing on their positive stand to the treaty without telling Czechs that its ratification would effectively prevent them from fulfilling their policy programme. The ideological conference of the Civic Democratic Party is focussing mainly on planned austerity measures in the coming years and the need to communicate them to the public.