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Doctors slam 'supersized' drinks ... a resolution urging the eight countries, including the Czech Republic, that have not yet ratified the treaty to speed up the process. "It is highly important that all EU institutions resist the temptation of exerting any pressure.
This would be counter-productive. The pressure is big anyway and we should not further increase it. We therefore will not support such a resolution," Schwarzenberg told the paper. He recalled nevertheless that the Czech Republic must now wait for the Czech Constitutional Court to say whether the treaty is in harmony with the Czech constitutional order, which is likely to last several months. Schwarzenberg said at a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday that the Irish "no" to the treaty is not a reason for the ratification to stop. He told the paper that further steps should be taken only after the situation calms down. He said he did not want to make any guess about how the situation would develop. "However, I certainly do not want Europe without Ireland. Ireland must decide on how it would further proceed and we should give it the time. To exert pressure would be the most stupid thing we could do," Schwarzenberg told Der Standard.
(Ceske Noviny)
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