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Article: Czech leader's treaty demand could revive postwar tension
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- The Irish Times
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- October 14, 2009
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Vaclav Klaus wants an exemption from part of a rights charter in
the Lisbon Treaty, writes DANIEL McLAUGHLIN
PRESIDENT VACLAV Klaus's latest objection to the Lisbon Treaty
touches on one of the most sensitive chapters of modern Czech
history.
The staunch eurosceptic is demanding an exemption for the Czech
Republic from part of a rights charter that will become binding when
the treaty comes into force - something that can only happen when he
adds his long-awaited signature to the document.
Klaus fears that ratifying the treaty in its current form will
expose his country to claims for property that was taken from three
million ethnic Germans who were expelled from Czechoslovakia after
the ...