The fate of the Lisbon Treaty is now in the hands of Czech President Vaclav Klaus. Photo: Petr Novák, Wikipedia

Now that the Irish have ratified the Lisbon Treaty, and with Poland expected to follow suit, all eyes are on one man – President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, the BBC reports.

The Czech parliament has approved the treaty, but Klaus, a harsh critic of the European Union, has so far refused to sign it. Czech ratification is currently on hold pending a new legal challenge to Lisbon. But the president has given the first hint that his battle against Lisbon may finally be lost.

“The Irish had the last chance to say something about Lisbon,” Klaus said on Friday. ”Because after today’s Irish referendum there will never be another referendum in Europe.”

What about a potential referendum in Britain that the Tory leader David Cameron has been talking about? “I’m afraid that the people of Britain should have done something much earlier,” Klaus told the BBC. Now, he said, it was “too late”.

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