Vaclav Klaus calls on experts to check EU Constitution

In a letter to the Czech Constitutional Court, Mr Klaus questioned whether changes need to be made to the country's constitution in order to pave the way for the new European treaty.

Mr Klaus also said that he was one hundred percent against the European Constitution because it limits the sovereignty of nation states and that the debate about the document was being dominated by technical details interesting only for a limited group of people, while the authors of the text had based it on completely inaccurate ideas, such as "existing European identity".

Prague has still not decided about the method of the ratification process.
The main opposition party - Civic Democrats (ODS), suggested that they were preparing a bill paving the way for a referendum, to be held by the end of this year.

However, the ruling Social Democrats could yet oppose the bill as they want a later date for the referendum, preferably along with the 2006 parliamentary elections.

Source: EU Observer