Prague - The future of the Lisbon Treaty lies in the hands of Ireland, whose voters rejected the pact in a June referendum, the Czech and Polish presidents said Thursday. The dinner meeting between Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus at the Lany Chateau outside Prague has not changed the opinion of the Czech president, who declared the treaty dead following the Irish no. "Without a change of the Irish result it makes no sense to further talk about it," CTK news agency cited Klaus as saying. Klaus is a longtime critic of the EU accord, designed to streamline decision-making in the expanded 27-nation bloc. He says it's too federalist and too much like a European constitution. Kaczynski's visit has led to speculation that he will urge his Czech counterpart to support the Lisbon Treaty. Neither...
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