Czech President Vaclav Klaus would probably sign the Lisbon treaty only if it were ratified by Ireland, even if the Czech Constitutional Court gave the green light to it and Czech parliament ratified it earlier, Klaus indicated in an interview with Radio Cesko on Monday.
In the past months the Czech Constitutional Court has assessed, at the upper house's request, whether the treaty is compatible with the Czech constitution. The court is to make the decision on Tuesday.
According to Klaus, any discussion on when the Lisbon treaty will be passed or rejected by the Czech Republic is pointless now.
Now the Constitutional Court's decision must be waited for, and afterwards it is necessary to consider whether it is possible to turn to it over the Lisbon treaty again, Klaus said.
The following debate in the Czech parliament will be far from short as the treaty means a "fatal restriction of the national sovereignty," said Klaus, an ardent critic of the Lisbon treaty.
"Only afterwards it would be the presidential signature's turn. I have no reason to be another European to urge Ireland to do something. Simply, no change can occur without Ireland changing its position," Klaus said.
The Czech Republic is the only EU state not to have taken an official position on the treaty so far.
The Irish rejected the EU's reform treaty in a referendum in June and the Irish government now seeks ways to have the treaty ratified so that it can take effect.
Source:Xinhua
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