Czech President Vaclav Klaus reportedly has indicated that he may, after all, sign the EU reform treaty.

CZECH president Vaclav Klaus rubbed salt into EU wounds yesterday by choosing Moscow to reveal that he never intends to sign the Lisbon Treaty.

In the real world, there is no way the Conservatives would spend their first months in power expending political capital on a referendum on Europe if Lisbon had already been ratified. As a political priority, Britain’s debt crisis puts Europe in the shade. But can they just hack the treaty? That seems unlikely too

Any ideas of reopening the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty across Europe were condemned today as “absurd” and “surreal”.

THE Czech government is to ask its fellow EU member states to allow the country to opt out of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in an effort to persuade their president to sign the Lisbon Treaty.

The President of the Czech Republic today clarified what he wants before signing the Lisbon Treaty – a UK style “opt-out” from the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

CZECH President Vaclav Klaus raised a new obstacle to the European Union’s Lisbon reform treaty yesterday, telling EU president Sweden he wants a footnote added to the document before signing it into force.

The Lisbon Treaty is being “fast-tracked” through the Czech constitutional court to end the uncertainty over its future as soon as possible, the Czech prime minister said today.

EUROPEAN Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso begins putting together his new commission this week – but he will have to leave at least one country out.

After Ireland’s resounding “yes” vote today, only one man now stands in the way of the Lisbon Treaty coming into force, with its promise of a more efficient , user-friendly European Union.

British Conservative Party leader David Cameron was urged today to stop “plotting” with the Czech Republic to block the Lisbon treaty in the wake of the apparent Irish 'Yes' referendum vote.

“SIMPLE colours, simple messages,” was how one colleague described Declan Ganley’s launch of his Libertas group, under whose banner he hopes to run candidates for the European Parliament elections in all 27 EU countries in June.

The Czech Constitutional Court has delayed its verdict on whether the Lisbon Treaty conforms to the country's constitution.