Brussels Interfering with the Czech Constitutional Court

As you might have heard, the Czech president Vaclav Klaus has not yet signed the ratification of the Lisbon treaty. He justifies this by two things: the Irish has not ratified yet and a group of Czech senators are issuing a complaint to the Czech constitutional court. Through this complaint these senators are striving for guarantees that Czech Republic remains a sovereign state; more details can be found here.

The latest development of this matter, however, has not been yet covered by the international media, which is the main reason for this post. The Czech media has reported that the German ambassador Johannes Haindl has met with the Chief Justice Pavel Rychetsky. The ambassador was interested in how long will it take before the constitutional court will rule on the treaty.

This is of course fishy enough, but it only gets worse. The weekly magazine Euro claims that it has information that Rychetsky has promised to Haindl that the complaint will be rejected in a mistrial. The original article (in Czech) is here.

We may only hope that this will be not the case. But either way, this only shows that Brussels is afraid anybody else deciding on the treaty but themselves.