Media censorship law's passage in Slovakia could block Lisbon Treaty

The best report on this is in the IHT which is linked from here. The crux is summarised in this passage: in protest at the legislation, Slovak opposition lawmakers walked out of Parliament three times when votes on the new EU treaty were scheduled. The government coalition is five votes short of the 90 necessary for the EU treaty to be ratified in the parliament. The treaty, a stripped-down version of the European Constitution that collapsed when France and the Netherlands rejected it, is meant to streamline the way the European Union operates It was not clear Wednesday when the parliament could vote on the treaty.