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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) of Romania on Wednesday hailed the signing of the law on the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon by Czech President Vaclav Klaus, which makes room for the completion of the process of ratification of the document.

After the submission of the ratification instrument, the Czech Republic will become the 27th member state that will end the procedures of adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon, according to which the European Union will function.

The Treaty of Lisbon will allow a more efficient and transparent functioning of the European Union and will ensure a strengthened profile at international level, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.
President Vaclav Klaus on Tuesday signed the Treaty of Lisbon, ending therefore the ratification process by the Czech Republic of the document designed to turn the European Union into a more united and stronger global player.

Klaus, a convinced euroskeptic announced he signed the Treaty of Lisbon at the Castle of Prague a few hours later after the Constitutional Court decided the document did not infringe the state’s fundamental law.
The Czech President Vaclav Klaus was the last EU leader who hadn’t signed the Treaty of Lisbon. Although ratified by both chambers of the Parliament in Prague, the Constitution had not allowed Klaus to sign the document until the Constitutional Court decided regarding the complaint recently filed by a number of 17 senators close to the president, who claimed the treaty undermined the national sovereignty.