Oct
28
Subjects covered in the EU to cut Czech
President Vaclav Klaus, the last ruler who opposes full ratification of the Lisbon treaty, awaited the supreme court ruling on the motion moved by Senators Czechs.
It was not clear when know the verdict.
Last year, the court rejected a similar appeal.
Czech opposition to the treaty is the last major obstacle to the ratification pact, designed to transform Europe into a global power. The document, stuck in negotiations for nearly a decade, has been ratified by all 26 other EU nations.
If not ratified by the government in Prague, the EU would face a crisis without precedents. Negotiators claim that his reforms _ create the post of EU president, give more powers to the commissioner for foreign policy and streamline the bloc's decision-making _ are necessary to increase the efficiency of the organism.
Klaus believes that the treaty would give the EU institutions too much power. He also called for allowing the country not to ratify the Charter of Fundamental Rights as a condition for signing the treaty, fearing the claims of German lands and stripped of their property and expelled from the country after the Second World War.
Their demands have been backed by neighboring Slovakia and Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak said Monday that his country needs similar safeguards. The two nations formed the Chechoslovaquia old when he drove about 3 million citizens of German origin.
Klaus awaiting the decision of the tribunal, based in Brno, before deciding whether to support the document.
It was not clear when the court issued its ruling, the judges recognized that although time is short. EU leaders gather this week at a summit that according to European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso of Portugal, will give the finishing touches to the document.