Vaclav Klaus
Vaclav Klaus
Václav Klausis a Czech economist and politician who served as the second President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. He also served as the second and last Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, from July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, and as the first Prime Minister of an independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 June 1941
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I share with my colleagues a broad consensus on what needs to be done, although there are issues where I want to move faster than they.
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In my opinion, this gives Icelanders all the benefits ensuing from it, but they have no costs connected with EU membership,
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I had been in Austria that day, giving lectures attacking government economic policy. You see, the regime already could not control its critics.
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But the Civic Forum has put me in a very visible position, and I expect that I will be in the parliament after the June elections.
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It's an awful thing and I take it very seriously,
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Nonsense. I would like to say, quite formally and clearly, that my government would never allow something like this.
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Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.