A quote from The Irish Independent, 18 June 2008

Plans for the controversial visit of Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday descended into chaos last night. Senior politicians said they had never seen such "shoddy" preparations for what was being regarded as a critical meeting on the Lisbon Treaty. Such is the poor level of organisation, that the entire affair has been dubbed a "French farce". […]

There are deepening fears that the event will fail to address the concerns of the majority of Irish people who voted 'No' in last month's referendum. Those fears come on the back of growing anger over what Mr Sarkozy said earlier this week, when he told party members that Ireland would have to hold a second vote.

A quote from Mirek Topolanek, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, in a letter to The Economist, 17 July 2008

In April the [Czech] Senate submitted the [Lisbon] treaty to the constitutional court for review and the various committees of the Chamber of Deputies suspended further proceedings on the document pending the result of that review. The treaty’s ratification process has therefore been suspended in both chambers. […] I consider this approach to be entirely legitimate and responsible.

A quote from The Daily Express, 18 July 2008

Under a cloak of secrecy, the [British] Government finally ratified the Lisbon Treaty earlier this week and committed the country to a new deluge of European meddling. In a sign of the Prime Minister’s personal embarrassment over the betrayal, the historic step was only made public yesterday – 24 hours after the covert ceremony had taken place.