The Eurocrats can smell victory in the water as the blood of the Irish electorate reaches their shark-like noses and there is a sense that they have almost got their way with the unloved EU Constitution. President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic has already said that he accepts the result in Oreland but that it doesn’t make any difference to his opposition and delay whilst waiting for the Czech courts to rule on the matter.

But already the feeling is that one final push and its all done – a feeling given fresh impetus by David Cameron retreating into some bizarre combination of a political hedgehog crossed with a jellyfish on the eve of the Tory conference. For the Polish paper Rzeczpospolita has reported that the Czech Republic might receive an influential post in the new European Commission in exchange for the completion of the ratification of the Constitution by President Vaclav Klaus’s signature.

The daily reminds that supporters of Eurosceptical Klaus, senators mainly from the right-wing Civic Democratic Party (ODS), filed a complaint against the Constitution with the Czech Constitutional Court. However, even if the court rules that the EU reform treaty was not at variance with the constitution, it would “not be certain how Klaus would behave”.

“I am fully convinced that if Klaus were prepared to sell his signature for a significant commissioner post, for instance for energy or transport, Czechs would get it,” analyst Piotr Maciej Kaczynski, form the Brussels-seated Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), told Rzeczpospolita. No surprises there…after all, horsetrading in smoke-and-gluten-free rooms is typical EU fodder.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski has repeatedly said that he will sign the Lisbon treaty after the Irish yes, but Klaus said previously he would wait for the Constitutional Court’s decision on the new complaint.

The Nice treaty stipulates the lowering of the number of EU commissioners from the current 27. Czech and European politicians are quite open that the commissioner for the Czech Republic is the one who is in line to pack up his desk and leave if they don’t start behaving like good little Europeans.

And the beat goes on….