Try as they might to talk about other pressing issues, EU leaders kept bumping into the elephant in the room – the Lisbon Treaty.

Last year’s German triumph in clinching the reform treaty after some eight years of institutional wrangling now looks like a pyrrhic victory.

The Irish No vote on Lisbon dominated the Brussels summit, with new cracks appearing just when EU leaders thought they had papered them over.

In a surprise announcement after the talks, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said full British ratification would have to wait until a court ruling on a Euro-sceptic millionaire’s demand for a referendum on Lisbon.

The summit conclusions meanwhile noted – in a footnote – that ratification in the Czech Republic would not be complete until the country’s constitutional court made a ruling on the treaty.

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