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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9895

6 May 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/lisbon treaty
Czech Senate approval expected on Wednesday

Brussels, 05/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Czech Senate is expected to vote on the Lisbon Treaty on Wednesday 6 May. A three fifths majority is required if the new EU Treaty is to be ratified (the lower house approved it in February). A number of sources have said that outgoing Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has been given guarantees by many of the Eurosceptic senators in his own party, the ODS, that either they would support the Treaty, or they would abstain, or they would leave the...

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