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
although broad colleagues consensus faster issues move needs share
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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a political farce which the leftists are playing against the right.
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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.
believes hospitals means work
By no means can the hospitals work the way they used to work. If someone believes that they can, I think he or she is very wrong,
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it is such a delicate part of Czech history that it cannot be done without consensus on it in the Czech Republic.
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This week, we created a Board for the Temporary Administration of State Property that will look into selling government-owned assets.
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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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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.