President Lech Kaczynski to visit Prague

Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski is scheduled to meet with President Václav Klaus in Prague on Thursday for talks expected to focus largely on the Lisbon Treaty. Polish officials have dismissed reports that President Kaczynski is coming to Prague to try and soften President Klaus’s position on the treaty, at the instigation of France which currently holds the rotating EU presidency. Although President Kaczynski refused to sign the treaty when it was rejected by Irish voters in June he changed his mind following a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. President Klaus remains firmly opposed to it, claiming that after Ireland’s rejection the Lisbon treaty is dead and efforts to revive it are a waste of time.