Czech Republic may block Croatia’s EU accession
Czech PM Petr Nečas has confirmed that the so-called Klaus opt-out from the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified together with Croatia's EU accession treaty.
Wednesday, 22.06.2011.
16:51
Czech PM Petr Necas has confirmed that the so-called Klaus opt-out from the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified together with Croatia's EU accession treaty. Bearing in mind that the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms that is part of the Lisbon Treaty does not apply to Czech Republic, the leftist parties in the Czech parliament could block Croatia's entry into the EU. Czech Republic may block Croatia’s EU accession In 2009 Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed the Lisbon Treaty only after the EU accepted his demand for a Czech opt-out from the treaty's EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. He was convinced that the charter could enable the transferred Germans to claim their former property on Czech soil, confiscated from them on the basis of the post-war Benes decrees. They provided for the confiscation of the property of collaborators, traitors, ethnic Germans and Hungarians, except for those who themselves suffered under the Nazis. Considering that some EU member states, primarily Germany and Austria, would hardly ratify such accession treaty with Czech Republic, it was decided to annex the so-called Klaus opt-out to the accession treaty of the next country to join the EU. “The opt-out is unacceptable for us. Czech citizens would have lower level of protection than citizens of other EU member states because of it,“ Senate Deputy Chairwoman Alena Gajduskova said. Czech Social Democrats and Communists do not want to block Croatia’s accession into the EU but they did confirm that they were ready to refuse to ratify the accession treaty with Croatia if it is connected to Czech opt-out from the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. “I want to submit the accession treaty and the opt-out as one document, to make it one vote. I am convinced that we will respect the deal with the Council of Europe that has agreed to the opt-out,“ Necas told Czech MPs. He stressed that Croatia had Czech Republic’s full support in their effort to complete the accession negotiations with the EU in June and to sign the accession treaty by the end of the year and during Polish EU presidency. All EU member states need to ratify the treaty. However, if the Czech parliament decided not to ratify Croatia’s accession treaty over the opt-out which has nothing to do with it, Croatia’s EU accession would be blocked.
Czech Republic may block Croatia’s EU accession
In 2009 Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed the Lisbon Treaty only after the EU accepted his demand for a Czech opt-out from the treaty's EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.He was convinced that the charter could enable the transferred Germans to claim their former property on Czech soil, confiscated from them on the basis of the post-war Benes decrees. They provided for the confiscation of the property of collaborators, traitors, ethnic Germans and Hungarians, except for those who themselves suffered under the Nazis.
Considering that some EU member states, primarily Germany and Austria, would hardly ratify such accession treaty with Czech Republic, it was decided to annex the so-called Klaus opt-out to the accession treaty of the next country to join the EU.
“The opt-out is unacceptable for us. Czech citizens would have lower level of protection than citizens of other EU member states because of it,“ Senate Deputy Chairwoman Alena Gajduškova said.
Czech Social Democrats and Communists do not want to block Croatia’s accession into the EU but they did confirm that they were ready to refuse to ratify the accession treaty with Croatia if it is connected to Czech opt-out from the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.
“I want to submit the accession treaty and the opt-out as one document, to make it one vote. I am convinced that we will respect the deal with the Council of Europe that has agreed to the opt-out,“ Nečas told Czech MPs.
He stressed that Croatia had Czech Republic’s full support in their effort to complete the accession negotiations with the EU in June and to sign the accession treaty by the end of the year and during Polish EU presidency. All EU member states need to ratify the treaty.
However, if the Czech parliament decided not to ratify Croatia’s accession treaty over the opt-out which has nothing to do with it, Croatia’s EU accession would be blocked.
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