Václav Klaus

Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero are understood to have privately criticised the Tory leader after he sent a handwritten letter to the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, who has been refusing to sign the treaty.

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...at the leaders' summit in Brussels at the end of this month. Mr Sarkozy attacked President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic for holding up ratification of the treaty. The delay was indamissible because the Czech Parliament had...

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...Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, were said to have privately criticised the Tory leader after he sent a handwritten letter to the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, who has been refusing to sign the treaty. Advertisement

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...leader. A senior diplomatic source revealed the three leaders revealed the three leaders are "incensed" about Mr Cameron sending a letter to Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who has yet to sign the treaty, begging him to delay.

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...the letter. And on Friday, Mr Klaus, whose country is the only EU nation still to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, said that he would not mount any further obstacles to passing it after winning an opt-out on one particular issue. Also on Friday,...

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Mr Blair was in Washington on Tuesday, still declining to confirm that he was a candidate for a job that will be created if, as widely expected, Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, finally signs the Lisbon treaty in coming days. Mr...

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...- any further delay would have consequences for the Czechs. But perhaps, finally, Klaus simply realised that he is not one of the three most important people in the world. Plans on how to change the president's powers, so that he would...

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...positioning. They expressed concerns during this week's European Union summit in Brussels after Mr Cameron wrote to Czech president Vaclav Klaus, who has so far refused to sign the treaty, according to The Guardian, The letter was sent...

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