Lubomír Zaorálek: linking Lisbon and radar treaty scandalous

Conditioning the ratification of the Lisbon treaty by the approval of the treaty on the location of a US radar base on Czech soil is unacceptable, deputy chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Lubomír Zaorálek has said in reaction to Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek’s previous statement. Mr Topolánek said earlier this week that the rejection of the radar agreement might negatively affect the approval of the Lisbon treaty. Speaking in a televised debate on Sunday, Mr Zaorálek, member of the opposition Social Democrats, said it was scandalous to trade one treaty for the other. Senate chairman Přemysl Sobotka, on the other hand, said that linking the two agreements was logical.