Presidential candidate Fischer says EU pact is not ideal, but acceptable

The presidential candidate who currently tops the polls with a 24 percent rating, former prime minister Jan Fischer, has told the internet news site lidovky.cz that if he were in office he would sign the EU’s fiscal pact. Asked to state his position on the matter, Mr. Fischer said that while he did not find the treaty in its present form ideal, it was certainly acceptable. The current president Vaclav Klaus is a fierce critic of further EU integration and has made it clear that he will not under any circumstances ratify the treaty.