Europe leaders incensed by David Cameron's letter
Sarkozy, Merkel and Zapatero criticise Tories for attempt to delay treaty
Conservative leader David Cameron Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
Leaders of three of the most powerful countries in Europe have strongly criticised David Cameron at the EU summit over Conservative plans to scupper the Lisbon treaty.
Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and José Luiz Rodríguez Zapatero are understood to have privately criticised the Tory leader after he sent a handwritten letter to the Czech president Vaclav Klaus, who is refusing to sign the treaty. The letter was seen as an attempt to influence the Czech Republic, the only country not to have ratified the treaty.
Well yes, but that letter was sent several weeks ago. The Tories have done nothing in the last few days to influence the ratification by Klaus of the Treaty. Would it not be better for the Guardian to be reporting the latest news, namely that Klaus has said that he will sign and that Sarkozy expects the Treaty of Lisbon to be in force on 1 December, than to keep banging on with stale facts to justify the class struggle in the UK?
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