David Blackburn

Vaclav Klaus caves into the “train carrying Lisbon”

Czech President Vaclav Klaus has developed cult status among Eurosceptics in Britain – a latter day Mons Angel. But it would have been nothing short of miraculous if Klaus had been able to derail the Lisbon Treaty. The Telegraph reports that Klaus can delay signing the treaty no longer. He said: 

“The train carrying the treaty is going so fast and it’s so far that it can’t be stopped or returned, no matter how much some of us would want that.

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