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Klaus meets with Lisbon Treaty opponent

President continues to praise the Irish "no" vote

July 23rd, 2008 issue

(Updated July 30, 2008) Czech President Václav Klaus met with Declan J. Ganley, the Chairman of the Libertas Association and a known opponent of the Lisbon treaty yesterday, Mladá fronta Dnes wrote on Tuesday.

Ganley informed Klaus of the activities of Libertas, which was behind the Irish "No!" campaign that preceded Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in June. Both he and Klaus agreed that the Irish "no" vote has the same weight as the rejection of any other state in the European Union, said Klaus's spokesman Radim Ochvat.

Klaus praised the efforts of Libertas to give EU citizens a chance to vote on issues which affect the sovereignty of their countries to a substantial degree.

The Lisbon Treaty, which replaced the failed EU constitution, has to be ratified by all 27 members of the union. But Irish law states that international treaties must be ratified by a national referendum.

Klaus said he welcomed the results.

"There was a referendum on the Lisbon treaty in only one of the 27 countries of the EU. Only in one single country of the EU did politicians allow their citizens to show how they felt. The result should be clear to everyone. It is a victory of freedom and common sense over artificial elitist projects and European bureaucracy," he told reporters after the meeting.


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