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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The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.
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Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
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As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
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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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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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Nonsense. I would like to say, quite formally and clearly, that my government would never allow something like this.
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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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It's an awful thing and I take it very seriously,
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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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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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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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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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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.