Press review | 13/10/2009

Prague ready to negotiate over the Treaty of Lisbon

The Czech government is ready to accept President Václav Klaus' demand that exceptions to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union be negotiated with the EU. In return Klaus is to sign the ratification document for the Treaty of Lisbon as soon as possible. With his exemption clause Klaus is demanding guarantees for the Beneš Decrees, on the basis of which the Sudeten Germans were collectively disappropriated after World War II.