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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10009

30 October 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/lisbon treaty
President Klaus gives assurances that he will sign once opt-out is guaranteed - Slovakia withdraws its demand

Brussels, 29/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - Late Thursday afternoon, with a few hours to go until the European Council, two items of news from Prague and Bratislava appear to definitively open the way to an agreement on the “opt-out” demanded by the Czech Republic on the Lisbon Treaty's Charter of Fundamental Rights. The first news item involved Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president. According to the Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, M. Klaus pledged to him that he would not produce any new...

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