Occupation: Former President Of The Czech Republic Birth: June 19, 1941
This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which repre….
Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be w….
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human ….
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining..
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or to a small proportion of….
"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming"..
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was publishe….
Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom..
What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time..
EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter..
And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name th….
You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state..
EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is ver….
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a relig….
Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime to….
But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry are the ones who are trying t….
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 ….
Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talki….
Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Rep….
The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes and….
I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own) and the ability of man t….