A defeat for Klaus

The daily Delo sees the vote for the Treaty of Lisbon as a defeat for Czech President Vaclav Klaus. "The Czech Republic … will not be the country that buries the treaty. President Klaus can still hope that Germany's Federal Constitution Court or another negative referendum in Ireland will put an end to it, and the Czech constitutional judges will perhaps comply with the demands of the dissatisfied eurosceptics and examine those parts of the Lisbon Treaty they have not yet scrutinised. But if they didn't have any objections the first time round they're unlikely to have any this time. In the struggle between the two leading politicians of the conservative Civic Democratic Party [ODS] who went their different ways because of the European issue among other questions the score is now 1:1 - Topolanek is no longer in office because of Klaus but even so Klaus has failed to reach his goal."

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