President Vaclav Klaus has traded off chairing the European Union summit in June where various measures that might encourage Ireland's people to vote for the Lisbon EU Constitutional Treaty are to be signed off, in favour of chairing the EU-Russia and EU-China summits.
A series of Lisbon Treaty guarantees on tax, neutrality and ethical issues is part of a political package for Ireland. So afraid were Lisbon Treaty supporters of what Professor Klaus might do to the credibility of these guarantees there had been pressure to delay this particular summit to July when Sweden would be providing the EU President. President Klaus' office stated:
"The President proposed that Prime Minister Jan Fischer should chair June's EU summit [on the Lisbon Treaty, ed.] in Brussels on behalf of the Czech presidency... The President has full trust in the Prime Minister and has no doubt that he will handle this role easily and with success."
So we can take it that the Temptation of the Irish is now fully choreographed and ready for offer, while the summits on the European Union's relations with Russia, and with China need serious oversight from an honest broker.
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Democracy in action. I hate the EU!
Sue, so you should. You pay everything and gain nothing. But that's not the EU's fault. It's the UK government that hides behind EU membership and regulation while they tear up everything people in the UK prize.
And I cannot fault Professor Klaus in his analysis of the EU either. If he wants to chair these summits, there's something nasty to be looked at.
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