Foreign minister: Czech Republic likely to ratify Lisbon Treaty

The Czech Parliament will most likely ratify the Lisbon Treaty on the future arrangement of the EU, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said after a meeting of ten EU foreign ministers in Paris on Tuesday. If the treaty is ratified by the end of the year, the Czech Republic will be the first country to take up the rotating EU presidency in line with the new model. Migration and the role of new EU institutions, as outlined in the Lisbon Treaty, were also on the agenda of the talks.