On the contrary, the Lisbon treaty's ratification is supported by 47 percent of the respondents. Even though 53 percent of Czechs are against the treaty's ratification, only 23 percent understand what changes the treaty would introduce, according to the poll. One third of the respondents admit that they do not understand the treaty's content at all and another two fifths or 43 percent say they rather do not know what the treaty Most Czechs indifferent to Czech EU presidency - poll ...
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Projects ... is about. The STEM poll shows that people's knowledge of the treaty has almost not changed since February 2008.
However, the number of Czechs who oppose its ratification has slightly increased. The poll respondents with a higher education and those who assess their living standards as good know more about the treaty. The respondents who are satisfied with the Czech Republic's EU membership are for the Lisbon treaty's ratification most frequently (65 percent). The treaty is more often supported by high-income groups (62 percent) as well as voters of the senior ruling Civic Democrats, ODS (61 percent), and of the junior ruling parties - the Christian Democrat, KDU-CSL (52 percent) and the Greens, SZ (51 percent). On the other hand, over one half of the opposition Social Democrat (CSSD) voters are rather against the Lisbon treaty's ratification. The highest share of its opponents is among the opposition Communist (KSCM) followers (68 percent). According to a June poll by the Centre for Public Opinion Research (CVVM), released on Thursday, only less that one fifth of Czechs are interested in the Lisbon treaty, while two fifths of the respondents have no idea what the Lisbon treaty is and another two fifths have only a vague idea about it. The Lisbon treaty must be ratified by all 27 EU member states to take effect. Irish voters rejected the document in a referendum lately. However, the European leaders agreed at a summit in Brussels in June that the Lisbon treaty ratification would continue regardless of the Irish "No." The Czech Republic, one of the eight EU countries not to have ratified the reform treaty yet, pushed through at the summit a clause, saying that the ratification process in the country would be suspended until the Constitutional Court assesses the treaty's compatibility with Czech law.
(Ceske Noviny)
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