EU rotating President slams Sarkozy's Car Relocalisation - Lisbon ratification threatened!

President Sarkozy in threatened to bring home EU car investments threatens ratification in the Czech Parliament according to Prime Minister Topolanek who also holds the rotating EU Presidency through the June EU Parliamentary elections. Read EU Business report linked here, the offending quote being the following:

Speaking on French television last Thursday, Sarkozy proposed to "stop the de-localisation and, if possible, to re-localise" car plants run by French producers in a bid to boost employment in an economic downturn.

"If you build a Renault plant in India to sell Renaults to Indians, that's justified, but if you build a factory, without saying the company's name, in the Czech Republic to sell cars in France, that's not justified," Sarkozy said.

Elsewhere in news on the EU this Mondat morning Declan Ganley describes in the Irish Times, linked here, the lengths the EU went to scupper the registration of his reforming Libertas Party, a quote:

LIBERTAS WAS “formally recognised as a political party against the best efforts by Brussels”, the group’s founder Declan Ganley has said. He “had been reliably told” that officials in Brussels were instructed to find one comma out of place, one “i” not dotted, he said.

Two supporters in eastern Europe had been “nobbled” he said, “but there were plenty of others”.

The party was now recognised in all 27 EU countries, he said, and referred delegates to its website www.libertas.eu.

The FT covers the manipulations underway to get round the fact that it is the Nice Treaty that will apply to the new EU Commission to be appointed this year which will require the EU will get the Commission streamlining for the next few years, exactly what was earlier the main point for the Reform Treaty (aka Constitutional Treaty).