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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9818

15 January 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/czech presidency
Mirek Topolanek says Lisbon treaty is worse than treaty of Nice - Parliament calls for rapid notification

Brussels, 14/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 14 January, the Czech prime minister and acting president of the European Council, Mirek Topolanek, presented the European Parliament in Strasbourg with the priorities of the Czech Presidency of the EU. He used this occasion to confess to MEPs his support for “a Europe of freedoms, rights, ideas and rules, rather than a bureaucratic and technocratic Europe without a soul”. He also reiterated his personal doubts retarding the Lisbon...

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