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Thu 10 Oct 2009Czech PM assures EU that Klaus will approve treaty
THE CZECH prime minister has reassured EU leaders that his country’s eurosceptic president Václav Klaus will sign the Lisbon Treaty, despite his own failure to show up for a meeting in Brussels yesterday.
“I am fully and deeply convinced that there is no reason for anxiety in Europe,” Jan Fischer told leaders of the three main EU institutions via video link when his aircraft was grounded due to a technical fault. “In the Czech Republic the problem is not whether Yes or No, the question is when.”
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