Brussels, 20/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Czech Republic will do everything it can to ratify the Lisbon Treaty this year, before the country takes on the EU Council Presidency during the first half of 2009, said Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on 20 October in Prague. “I assured the Chancellor that this process was not being artificially slowed down. I presume it could be completed by the end of the year”, Mr Topolanek said. For...