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"I too would like to compliment the French Presidency for its excellent work. Under French leadership the European Union has coped jointly and effectively with the Georgia crisis and is handling the challenging financial and economic crisis in a coordinated and firm way. It has managed to conclude a good and balanced compromise over matters relating to the energy and climate package and has also worked with the Irish Government to find a solution to the problem of Lisbon Treaty ratification in Ireland.
However, the Lisbon Treaty is not yet in the bag. The Czech Republic, which in 14 days takes over the presidency of the Union, has yet to ratify it. Czech Premier Topolánek, whom President Sarkozy has spoken of as a courageous man, has broken a promise made generally and also made personally to President Sarkozy that Prague would ratify the Lisbon Treaty by the end of this year. Prague has failed to ratify and it has enormous problems with ratification. The MPs and senators of the Civic Democratic Party, who are also members of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, reject the Treaty. This will be a major problem for the Czech Presidency. However, I would like once again to thank the French Presidency."@en1
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