Brussels, 10/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Czech Republic will start its six-month Presidency of the EU on 1 January 2009 without having ratified the Treaty of Lisbon. This is now a certainty, since the MPs of the lower house of the Czech Parliament decided on Tuesday 9 December to postpone until 3 February 2009 the debate on the ratification of the new treaty. The extraordinary session of the parliament was convened by request of the Social Democrat opposition party (CSSD) in the hope of...