31/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - Just before Easter, the chairman of the Czech Senate, Premysl Sobotka, whose party, the ODS, has so far been in favour of voting no to the constitutional treaty, said: “I am saying a soft yes. At the moment it is our task to become a fully-fledged member of the Union. We are for a liberal European Union, not a Union that is bound by decrees”. The statement, made in Prague on 22 March, closely followed the position taken by the party leader, Mirek Topolanek,...