He asks whether there are winners and losers after the summit, and writes that the Czech government is the one who has all reasons to rejoice at the summit results. "It found itself in the centre of interest, and mainly it dulled the final communique with its own passage [saying the ratification process in the Czech Republic has been suspended pending a Constitutional Court verdict on whether the Lisbon treaty is in harmony with the Czech constitution]," Pesek writes. He says, however, that on the other hand, the Czech government will most probably inherit the "Irish issue" during Czech EU presidency in the first half of 2009. Pesek Brussels Gloomy as Irish Say 'No' to the EU Reform Treaty ...
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base-press ... writes that Croatia and other EU membership bidders can be ranked among the losers though the threats that there will be no more enlargement without Lisbon are unsubstantiated. "And they smell of blackmail," Pesek adds. Petr Uhl ponders in Pravo on whether Martin Burisk will survive at the head of the junior government Green Party (SZ) and says it is not true that Bursik brought the Greens to parliament, as some claim, but on the contrary, the SZ brought Bursik to the parliament's lower house. Uhl writes that there are more experienced people in the SZ and more suitable to lead the party. Many of them worked in the Civic Forum, the movement that played a key role in the fall of the previous regime in late 1989, Uhl writes. "Bursik is definitely not left-minded. He is neither right-minded and he is not Green," Uhl writes. "He is a pragmatist and he himself boasts of it. He has a purely technocratic thinking that people in the SZ who consider this to be the opposite to the democratic attitude, mind more and more," Uhl writes. He writes that Bursik is co-responsible for the current situation where the government coalition, conservative in social and European matters, has no more strength to rule. "Extremists excel in finding gaps and in filling them," Jan Jandourek writes in Mlada fronta Dness in reaction to the nationalist National Party and its National Guard's offer of self-defence lessons made to children in Karlovy Vary, west Bohemia, who were attacked and robbed by a group of young Romanies. This is no surprise. It always ends up like this where people are in desperate need of something and official institutions are unable to do anything about this, Jandourek writes. He reacts to the fact that the police have caught no one and parents wait for their children outside the school to protect them. "Where the state is unable to ensure security for people, the above gap has rather the dimensions of a barn door. The nationalists would have to be even more stupid than they are if they did not use the opportunity," Jandourek writes.
(Ceske Noviny)
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