The Czech Republic - an outsider on the inside

The liberal newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes writes that so far the Czech Republic has lived up to expectations that it would play the role of outsider regarding the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon: "Neither Berlusconi nor Sarkozy nor Merkel were as important yesterday as [Czech Prime Minister] Mirek Topolánek. While the British and the Polish were busy stressing that the Treaty of Lisbon was not dead, the Czechs remained silent. Topolánek did not speak to journalists before the evening discussions. But all of Europe is familiar with the statement by President Vaclav Klaus that Lisbon is dead. That has done a lot to isolate the Czechs in the EU."

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