More Czech doubts over Lisbon

The following is a report from a Sunday political TV broadcast from Prague, to see what passes for Sunday morning TV politics in today's UK read my post underneath this: Prague - Mayor of Prague Pavel Bem, first deputy chairman of the senior ruling Civic Democrats (ODS) who has announced he would run for ODS chairman at the December congress, said today he is against the ratification of he Lisbon treaty.

It is not possible that Czechs should all of a sudden transfer powers to the Brussels level without actually properly understand why they are doing so" Bem said in Prima television's Sunday Match discussion programme.

He said he just as any other ODS members including current ODS chairman and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek are bound by a previous ODS congress resolution that bans the transfer of state or national powers to the "European Brusselscracy."