Parliament to meet extraordinarily after MPs fail to agree on agenda

The ruling Civic Democrats have called for deputies to hold an extraordinary meeting after MPs failed on Tuesday to agree upon an agenda for their last gathering for 2008. After two hours of discussion, MPs were still unable to reach a consensus and the proposed agenda was vetoed. With next year’s budget and the future of several foreign military missions still to be debated, the Civic Democrats have called for the Lower House to meet extraordinarily on up to three occasions before the year is out. The first of these meetings is tabled to take place next week. MPs’ failure to agree upon an agenda sparked ire on Tuesday, with the leader of the Greens, Martin Bursík, calling the situation ‘almost inexcusable’ and ‘extremely serious’.