The court deals with the document at the proposal by the Senate, the upper house of the Czech parliament, which was initiated by the ODS since the cabinet has no power to ask the court for an analysis. The Czech Republic has not yet ratified the Lisbon treaty on the new division of powers between the EU and its member states pending the Constitutional Court's ruling. The Lisbon treaty that will replace the rejected European constitution is designed to reform EU Czech court may review recognition of ICC court ...
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The Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), a junior governing party, have announced that they will support the document even if the Constitutional Court decided that the Lisbon treaty contradicts the Czech constitutional order. They said that in such an event the party would support changing the Czech constitution. The Greens (SZ), another junior coalition partner, also demand the ratification of the document. The Lisbon treaty is important for the Czech Republic because it will assume the EU six-month rotating presidency in the first half of 2009. The Constitutional Court have asked all constitutional institutions for their positions on the document. President Vaclav Klaus who sent its position to the court last week stressed he firmly believed that the complex assessment of the Lisbon treaty by the Czech Constitutional Court was "an absolutely key pre-condition for its ratification." Klaus wrote it should also be considered whether people themselves should make a decision on the treaty in a referendum.
(Ceske Noviny)
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