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Jan Fischer, the Czech Republic’s prime minister, has told EU leaders he fully expecst his country to back the EU’s Lisbon Treaty by the end of this year.

But Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, who some describe as a Eurosceptic, is openly hostile to the tretay and will not sign it before a legal challenge in the Czech Constitutioanl Court is heard.

The Lisbon Treaty cannot take effect unless all 27 EU countries ratify it. All but the Czech Republic and Poland have done so.

Jonah Hull reports.

Irish voters have backed a European Union treaty aimed at streamlining the future workings of the 27-member body.

The result takes the EU a step closer to having a president for the first time – the leading candidate for which appears to be Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister.

Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from Dublin on why Irish voters changed their minds and backed a treaty they had previously rejected.

One of Britain’s top selling female artists talks about her new album.

Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, joins the show to discuss the controversial decision to emit Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, to the talks of the EU-Africa summit.

80 Europaen and African leaders sign pact promoting free trade and democracy.