Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says he is delighted that the Czech Constitutional Court has determined that the EU’s Lisbon Treaty does not run contrary to the Czech Constitution.

As result of the court’s decision, EU-sceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus will be able to sign off on the treaty, which Løkke Rasmussen says could be enacted across the Union on December 1.

“It is extremely positive that the Constitutional Court has not found that the Lisbon Treaty runs contrary to the Czech Constitution,” Løkke Rasmussen says.

The 15 judges of the Czech Constitutional Court announced their verdict shortly after 9 a.m. this morning in the case of a constitutional petition brought by 17 Czech senators. The Lisbon Treaty can only come into effect after all 27 EU countries have ratified it. The Czech Republic is the last of the 27 European countries to do so.

Britain's Cameron in quandary
The court’s decision, however, puts Britain’s Conservative Party Leader David Cameron in a serious political quandary. He gave a “cast-iron” guarantee in 2007 that he would put the Treaty to referendum in EU-sceptic Britain if, as the polls suggest, he comes to power in the next general election.

Hitherto British EU-sceptics had hoped that President Klaus would be able to delay signing off on the treaty until after a UK election which is due in 2010. Klaus, however, has previously said that he will not further delay signature if the Constitutional Court finds no constitutional problem with the Treaty.

Thus, if the treaty has already been ratified in all EU countries and has come into force as it is now expected to, Cameron's was apparently a barren promise.

The BBC reports today that Cameron has said that he will say “before the end of this week” what his policy is on the Lisbon Treaty following the Czech decision.

"It looks like this treaty is no longer going to be a treaty, it looks like it is going to become part of European law and that is going to create a new situation," the BBC quotes Cameron as saying.