EU countries can now negotiate in peace

The left-liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung is happy that the Czech president has signalled his readiness to stop blocking the Treaty of Lisbon: "Europe's heads of government can now start calmly working out a formula to unite the opposites along familiar lines: the obstructor from Prague can save face without getting what he was really after. The rest is history. In retrospect the Treaty of Lisbon will represent a watershed for the organisation of the Union by making it more difficult for obstructive elements in individual countries to blackmail everyone else. Václav Klaus took things to the absolute limit. ... The expulsion of the Hungarians and the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia after 1945 with the so-called Beneš decrees is once more in focus. Now that this matter is again on the EU agenda it is all the more important to engage in fresh, less one-sided discussion of the questions it raises. But it doesn't make it any easier."

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