The Telegraph says so. He told a Czech newspaper: "The train carrying the treaty is going so fast and it's so far that it can't be stopped or returned, no matter how much some of us would want that." Earlier in the week it had appeared – according to The Times – that Klaus would […]
Despite all the speculation the Czech president sounds resigned with this latest quote (our emphasis): “The people of Britain should have been doing something really much earlier and not just now, too late, saying something and waiting for my decision.” The FT writes: "With the EU piling on the pressure and threatening to strip the […]
The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, may face impeachment if he does not sign the Lisbon Treaty according to The Economist's Charlemagne. "Well-informed types in Prague suggest the most effective pressure on him is the threat of being impeached for failing to perform his duties as president. Meanwhile, as first announced last week, […]
The Czech President was speaking in New York at a conference of climate change sceptics. Talking about existing methods of energy generation he said: "If someone wilfully abandons the existing technologies before new and far better ones are invented, he will only block economic growth." Mr Klaus also used his visit to America to warn […]
Key extract from the New York Times: "While even many of the world’s most ardent free marketeers acknowledged the need for the recent coordinated bailout of European banks, Mr. Klaus lambasted it as irresponsible protectionism. He blamed too much — rather than too little — regulation for the crisis. A fervent critic of the environmental […]