Two fifths of Czechs do not know at all what the Lisbon treaty is and another two fifths only have a vague idea of it. It is mainly people with a higher education and EU's Barroso to Hold Crisis Talks After Irish Treaty Rejection ...
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Men say much more often than women that they know well what the term Lisbon treaty means. Almost three quarters of people (73 percent) think that they receive little information on the treaty and related developments. The survey was conducted on 1051 respondents over 15. President Vaclav Klaus says the ratification procedure should be stopped after the Irish rejected the treaty in a referendum. Deputy prime minister for European affairs Alexandr Vondra (senior ruling Civic Democrats, ODS) and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg (for the Greens), on the contrary, say the Czech Republic should ratify the treaty still before it takes over EU presidency next January. The Senate, in which the ODS has a majority, has initiated sending the treaty to the Constitutional Court to check whether it is in harmony with the Czech constitution.
(Ceske Noviny)
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