Germans seek to oust Czech president Vaclav Klaus over EU treaty
October 11, 2009 by Infowars Ireland
Revelling in the fuss he was causing, Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, calmly tucked into a plate of steamed shellfish on the terrace of the elegant Adriatic hotel in the Albanian seaside resort of Durres last week.
In faraway Brussels furious diplomats were calling for his impeachment and even his country’s expulsion from the European Union because of his obstinate refusal to sign the Lisbon treaty. Klaus, now the only European leader holding out against ratifying the document, made it clear he did not give a damn.
European leaders were told he was not available to take their calls. The Eurosceptic president and his wife Livia were completing a brief tour of the Balkan country where Klaus, 68, attended the launch of the Albanian edition of his controversial book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles, which argues there is no such thing as man-made global warming.
The trip had clearly been planned to coincide with the diplomatic blitz that Brussels launched after last weekend’s referendum in Ireland, which appeared to remove the final hurdle to ratification. Klaus seemed to have other ideas.
Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president, left Klaus further isolated by signing the treaty into law yesterday. “The EU remains a union of nation states, a strict union, and let it remain so,” Kaczynski said.
Calling the organisation “a successful experiment without precedent in human history”, he said it could not be closed to those who wish to join, “not only in the Balkans but also countries like Georgia”.
On Klaus’s return to Prague he dropped a political bombshell. At a press conference in his official residence the Czech leader announced that he would sign the treaty only if his government negotiated an opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is incorporated in the treaty.
He was concerned that the charter may permit retrospective property claims by the Sudeten Germans, a 3.5m-strong minority group expelled from the Czech Republic after the second world war.
“I have always considered this treaty a step in the wrong direction,” Klaus said. As he is well aware, the slightest change to the treaty, which was first proposed in 2001, would require all 27 EU member countries to agree.
His remarks were greeted with outrage in Europe. German and French diplomats, in talks with their Czech counterparts, explored two ways of removing the Klaus obstacle: impeach him or change the Czech constitution to take away his right of veto. Read full article…
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The Germans always think they can bully everyone with threats. I guess this is the face of the new EU. It’s too bad the English and Russians weren’t allow to deal with them fully when they wanted to. We can thank the USA for that.
The latest threats and insults aimed at Mr Klaus by frogs (sorry..) french and germans is exactly the reason we should leave the EU altogether not say ‘yes’ to the bloody Lisbon Treaty. What i find very scary is the way the other EU countries have sat back and allowed/ignored these threats -democracy EU style or democracy Nazi style?? (is there a difference??).
I wouldn’t bank on Britain (no longer ‘great’ you’ll notice) bailing anyone out either. David Shameron is nothing but a Blair clone, now if Boris Johnson were leading the Tory party..or even better but without as much fun and charm, David Davis things might be a safer bet, but Shameron? Forget it, he back peddles so fast he could win a world record -this man can’t make up his mind which side of his ass to scratch.
AND as the Lisbon treaty reintroduces the Death Penalty could i nominate the entire german Gov, Nu labour, Tony (sick bag) blair, Sarcozi, the Italian Gov and the Bilderbergs (probably included half of them already), this way we can all happily go back to being normal countries with our own laws, governments, armies, police forces etc get rid of the ring of stars and save a flamin fortune into the bargain.