Right-wing senators to file another complaint against Lisbon treaty

A group of right-wing senators have announced they will file a new constitutional complaint against the Lisbon treaty on September 29th. Senator Jiri Oberfalzer of the Civic Democrats said the group was petitioning the Constitutional Court to assess the treaty’s compliance with the Czech constitutional order. The complaint is likely to further delay the treaty’s ratification. Parts of the treaty came under the court’s scrutiny last year following a similar complaint by senators, but the court then ruled that the respective passages were in line with the Czech Constitution.