Czech Cabinet in emergency session to force President Klaus to sign Lisbon treaty

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[Chet 99]

The Czech Cabinet meets in emergency session today to consider how to persuade their stubborn President to sign the Lisbon treaty — under intense pressure from Paris and Berlin to complete the ratification as soon as possible.

With President Klaus demanding a last-minute amendment as the price of his signature — the final approval required in the 27-nation European Union — the Government is locked in a trial of strength with its head of state and on the brink of a constitutional crisis. If it supports his demands the treaty might have to be reopened amid lengthy delays, possibly allowing time for David Cameron’s Conservatives to win the next British election and hold a referendum on the treaty as they have promised.

If the the Czech Government opposes President Klaus then it may have to resort to a form of impeachment or strip him of his treaty-signing powers so as to complete ratification.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“David Cameron’s Conservatives to win the next British election and hold a referendum on the treaty as they have promised”

6 months.

[devere]

The forces of depsotism are determined and desperate.

[Tax-chick]

You’re my hero, Vaclav ... don’t do it!

[Gay State Conservative]

Can you imagine the promises that are being made to the Prime Minister's opponents to motivate them to bring him down??? I think it's time for us,the US,to declare the “European Union” a Communist “state” and an enemy “state”.

[NormsRevenge]

Idiots.

[eleni121]

Quoted (very end) from an otherwise biased and insipid article:

“Some have speculated that Klaus may want to prolong the process through mid-2010, when another treaty sceptic, UK Conservative leader David Cameron, may cash in on an opinion- poll lead that shows he will gain power in British elections likely to be held next May.

While Britain is among the 26 EU countries that ratified the treaty through parliament, Cameron has said he may annul that decision and hold a referendum - which is only possible if the treaty is not yet in force.”

God Bless you Klaus-—don’t sign this dangerous and preposterous document

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/lisbon-treaty-still-facing-obstacles-to-enforcement-1907058.html

[VanDeKoik]

“Czech Cabinet in emergency session to force President Klaus to sign Lisbon treaty”

A Czech leader forced to sign a document to cede his nation over to someone other group’s control?

Wow, sounds familiar.

[Clock King]

Cameron has said he may annul that decision and hold a referendum - which is only possible if the treaty is not yet in force.”

Ink on a page. Tear the damn thing up and tell the EU to pound sand.

[Niuhuru]

I heard Blair is angling for the part of President of the EU.

[B.O. Plenty]

Sigh.....

...it appears that the Czech "congress" is as stupid as our congress....

[mdmathis6]

Klaus may need the help of his military! His cabinet should be answering to him, not the other way around!

[Fresh Wind]

Since being a natural born citizen seems no longer to be a requirement in this country, I would welcome Mr. Klaus as president of the US.

Kenya can have Obama back.

[eleni121]

Tear the damn thing up

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Now that would be quite the magnificent gesture!

He would go down in history as one of the great political heroes of our times.

[BlueStateBlues]

I told FR he’d cave. He can’t stand the pressure, and is bargaining. Soon he’ll just sign it. Facism and Tony Blair as President of the Western World await.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Facism and Tony Blair as President of the Western World await."

http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=53



XX Congress of the Socialist International, New York 09-11 September 1996

PRESIDIUM ELECTED BY THE XX CONGRESS

President

Pierre Mauroy

Vice-Presidents

Gro Harlem Brundtland (First Vice-President)
Rolando Araya Monge
Tony Blair
Leonel Brizola
Philippe Busquin
Massimo D'Alema
Ousmane Tanor Dieng
Felipe González
António Guterres
Gyüla Horn
Erdal Inönü
Lionel Jospin
Oskar Lafontaine
Paavo Lipponen
Wim Kok
Alexa McDonough
Pedro París Montesinos
Jaime Paz Zamora
Shimon Peres
Göran Persson
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Costas Simitis
Anselmo Sule
Makoto Tanabe
Franz Vranitzky

Ex-Officio

Pauline Green
José Francisco Peña Gómez
Audrey McLaughlin
Rudolf Scharping
Nicola Zingaretti

Secretary General

Luis Ayala

[wastedyears]

Spineless bureaucrats

[Think free or die]

Based on what my cousins in the Czech Republic told me when I visited them in September, the country is already in a constitutional crisis. They are under a provisional government until the next normal elections a few months from now. There have been shenanigans at high levels, and the socialists are pushing hard to gain power. I applaud Vaclav Klaus, and fear for the land my parents fled after it fell to communism in ‘48.

[SunkenCiv]

If it supports his demands the treaty might have to be reopened amid lengthy delays, possibly allowing time for David Cameron’s Conservatives to win the next British election and hold a referendum on the treaty as they have promised.

And that's the real story.

[Frantzie]

Sounds like a another Soros project in the background. He was causing all sorts of trouble in eastern Europe and former Soviet repubs like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia.

I hope Klaus stays strong. One of the few men left with common sense in Europe or really in the world.

[corvus]

“The Czech Cabinet meets in emergency session today to consider how to persuade their stubborn President to sign the Lisbon treaty — under intense pressure from Paris and Berlin to complete the ratification as soon as possible.”

Vaclav Klaus has guts, only hope he can hold out against the tide of the free ride. We need more of this spirit here as well.

[TomasUSMC]

President Klaus go man go

[Think free or die]

"Sounds like a another Soros project in the background."

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he had a hand in things.

[Red Badger]

I find it ironic that a nation that was so recently under the iron curtain will so willingly submit their sovereignty to a iron union...........

[ScottinVA]

Vaclav, you are the MAN!!! Keep up the fight! And BTW... very sorry America elected such a fool and false ally as 0bama.

[ScottinVA]

“”Sounds like a another Soros project in the background.”
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if he had a hand in things.

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I look forward to the day when I wake up to learn Soros is no longer taking oxygen.

[Nikas777]

I find it ironic that a nation that was so recently under the iron curtain will so willingly submit their sovereignty to a iron union...........

The EU is annoying but it is not the USSR. The reason that the Czechs may sign and other former Euro skeptics did sign the Euro treaty this year when they did not do so last year is because the economic crash put them in dire straights. The Czech economy has been pretty hard hit for example. I am not justifying the pro EU vote - just explaining why the former Euroskeptics like Ireland came on board.

[Red Badger]

Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary, but when they come to the Manner and Form of the Union, their weak Noddles are perfectly distracted.....

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety....

Both quotes of Benjamin Franklin.............

[Nikas777]

Using terms for tyranny (comparing the EU to Stalin’s USSR) to describe the EU is kind of ridiculous in my opinion. Nor do I accept the fringe notions the EU will be the seat of the anti-christ and other such supernatural views. The EU does have its problems - and they are annoying but the EU’s annoying regulatory bodies that tell a country for example how to process their smelly green cheeses or pay a fine is not in the same league as the gulag producing USSR.

[dschapin]

Vaclav Klaus definately needs our prayers. At the moment he is one man standing alone against the rising beast. The pressure being brought to bear on him must be titanic.

[dfwgator]

If only Klaus were around back in 1938.

[dschapin]

The EU doesn’t have full power yet. Just give it time if it forces this treaty through. The EU’s human rights court system is already beginning to strip countries of religious freedom under the guise of protecting gays and religious minorities.

[Nikas777]

Having relatives in the EU and having lived there for a time - and coming from an anti-EU background per my nationalist family's political leanings - I can say that while I am being anti-EU - any attempt at making the EU sound like a latter day USSR is not based in reality. In Greece the Orthodox Christian church's problem with the EU stems from the EU's efforts at making the Greeks remove religion from identity papers. My family is against that over there - they want that on the ID papers. In Greece that is the pro-Religious and pro conservative position.

But I bet if we had ID papers in the USA it would be a conservative position not to show religious affiliation (and to not even have ID papers to begin with but for purposes of discussion).

There you go. Not easy is it?

[henkster]

“A Czech leader forced to sign a document to cede his nation over to someone other group’s control?

Wow, sounds familiar.”

Pressure from Paris and Berlin, no less.

[UKrepublican]

They won’t do it...Cameron is a coward and is backing down.

I am distraught at what is happening. Pathetic bastard politicians are signing my country away.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Yeah I’m pretty sure there would need to be some kind of “regime change” in Britain to actually go back to a pro-national, Thatcher-type government.

Bobo the bicycle-riding clown won’t hold a referendum on Europe.

But then I was surprised about Boris in London.

[BigFinn]

This is more ominous than 1939. History repeats itself once more.

[montyspython]

The US should then quit trying to force Eastern European countries to join it.

[americanophile]

Amazing that the U.S. continues to support these united Europe efforts when the natural result will be a unified European foreign policy, crafted by and dominated by left-wing, anti-American governments, that are reflexively opposed to U.S. power. The special relationship with Britain, and U.S. influence in ‘new Europe,’ will be lost.

[americanophile]

Exactly. Such foolishness.

[redgolum]

The United States of Europe was the dream of Napoleon, Hitler, and a host of others.

God help the Czechs

[FreeStateYank]

“Since being a natural born citizen seems no longer to be a requirement in this country, I would welcome Mr. Klaus as president of the US.”

I’ve thought the very same thing. Klaus has nads and a brain. We don’t even have one of the two...Zero lives up to his nickname.

[UKrepublican]

Boris is an idiot.

[sono]