President Václav Klaus was thinking about resigning due to Czech Republic’s ratification of Lisbon treaty

President Václav Klaus says he thought about stepping down due to the Czech Republic’s ratification of the Lisbon treaty. In a discussion with students of the Prague faculty of law on Monday, he said the reason he decided against this step was that the elementary turning point in the direction that the European Union was going came as early as 1993 with the signature of the Maastricht treaty. Mr. Klaus is one of the most vehement opponents of the Lisbon treaty and the Czech Republic was the last of the 27 EU member states to complete ratification after an opt-out was granted in October.