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Václav Klaus is 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 the newly-independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998.

Klaus was the principal co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party , a Czech free-market Eurosceptic political party. His presidency was marked by numerous controversies over his strong views on a number of issues, from global warming denial to euroscepticism, and a wide-ranging amnesty declared in his last months of office, triggering his indictment by the Czech Senate on charges of high treason. His political views are often described as "Klausism".

✵ 19. June 1941
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Famous Václav Klaus Quotes

“Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.”

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(2007) HARDtalk with Vaclav Klaus, BBC News, November 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEQmJBINYj4,

“You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.”

Václav Klaus

The Sierra Staff Strikes Back, With Some Help From The SPLC https://archive.is/20120529155704/www.vdare.com/walker/sierra_media_war.htm
Czech warns Europe of 'dream world' woes http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/nov/24/20031124-110833-1781r/

“We must say openly that the present economic system of the EU is a system of a suppressed market, a system of a permanently strengthening centrally controlled economy. Although history has more than clearly proven that this is a dead end, we find ourselves walking the same path once again. This results in a constant rise in both the extent of government masterminding and constraining of spontaneity of the market processes. In recent months, this trend has been further reinforced by incorrect interpretation of the causes of the present economic and financial crisis, as if it was caused by free market, while in reality it is just the contrary – caused by political manipulation of the market. It is again necessary to point out to the historical experience of our part of Europe and to the lessons we learned from it.”

Václav Klaus

Speech in the European Parliament, on EU http://klaus.cz/klaus2/asp/clanek.asp?id=88EY96UW9zlp

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