As the Euro-sceptic Polish president has promised to put his signature on the Lisbon Treaty, there remains a single obstacle in the way of leaving behind the decade-long institutional haggling to make the EU institutions work: Václav Klaus. The Czech pundit-president wants to have a strange footnote in history: he wants to add a personal [...]

Hungary was the first state to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, only four days after it was signed on 13 December 2007. The demonstrative quick step of the Hungarian Parliament has already given rise to a conspiracy theory.
I have received a number of e-mails from an Irish no-campaigner to help write up an article about the [...]

It looks to me that somebody in Ireland thinks that the Lisbon Treaty is not sexy enough, or maybe sexism is a more controversial topic than the treaty and they hope that it will take you to the polls. I doubt that this campaign would benefit anybody but the no campaign in some parts [...]