During the working lunch in Brussels, dedicated to the Lisbon treaty, Nicolas Sarkozy noted that the leaders were meeting "specific difficulties" with the Czechs, too.

Belgian Foreign Minister Olivier Chastel went even further in his statements and said that the Czechs "do not want to hear the reasons" of the countries striving to the Lisbon agreement.

Vaclav Klaus already said last week that the Lisbon agreement is dead after more than 53% of Irish voters rejected it.

Klaus is known for his Euroscepticism. The ratification of the contract in Prague was terminated in April, after the Senate required the Constitutional Court to impose this.

Earlier today, the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek held a meeting in an attempt to find a solution.

Upon his arrival at the meeting, the supreme representative of the European Union on Foreign and Security Javier Solana said that did not think that the Czech Republic would block the contract.
"I think that the contract will be ratified in the other countries," he added.

Another obstacle to the document could paralyse the contract, as it happened to its predecessor - the EU Constitution, after the voting in referendums in France and Denmark.

European leaders are determined to prove that the Union will not be facing another similar period of standstill just like it was during the two years after the rejection of the constitution.