Zaorálek: Agreement contradicts Lisbon Treaty

In related news, Social Democrat deputy chairman Lubomír Zaorálek has maintained the planned Czech-US agreement on a tracking radar base in the Czech Republic contradicts the Lisbon Treaty. Mr. Zaorálek said the planned agreement went against the idea of joint European security policy as defined by the stalled reform document. He made the comments earlier this week, maintaining that if the treaty were in force today, member states would have to consult bilateral security treaties together.