Friday, January 11, 2008

Czechs to send Treaty to Constitutional Court

The report may be read from here. Interestingly it is the "now legal" Charter of Fundamental Rights that could cause a problem: "The Czech government is of the view that the treaty is not in contradiction with the Czech constitutional order, but it would like the Constitutional judges to assess it first for sure, Vondra added. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (ODS) said some problems might concern the fulfillment of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, to which the treaty refers and which is now legally binding." It is difficult to comprehend how any sovereign nation could accept such an all encompassing document as the Charter, nor somehow being at odds with a Sovereign State's Constitution. As a Briton I object to such rights being granted by a foreign force as by my government accepting the provisions they tacitly accept the right of that same force to remove those rights, but that is what being a free-born Englishman was supposed to have been about!

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