Cameron should set his hopes on Klaus

At the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester David Cameron has once again promised the British a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in the event that he becomes prime minister after a Tory victory next spring and the Treaty has not yet gone into effect. Horst Bacia comments in the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Secretly Cameron can only be hoping that he won't have to keep his promise. If the UK toppled the Treaty it had already ratified it would be an affront to other member states and Prime Minister Cameron wouldn't have an easy start with his fellow heads of state and government. Perhaps he would choose to snub the EU opponents in his own ranks instead. Paradoxically, it's Czech President [Václav] Klaus who will decide whether he faces this choice or not. Should Klaus, a firm opponent of the Treaty, bow to the pressure of circumstances and sign the treaty (albeit unwillingly), so that it comes into force this year, Cameron would be out of the wood."

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