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. — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter. — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming". — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when you worry about whether a well-meaning gesture could produce complications. We have no problems with countries like Madagascar or Bolivia, for example. But Germany is our neighbor and we have a shared past. Besides, Germany is powerful and… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own)… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic. — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of 'human rightism.' We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share
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 one variable - human-induced CO2 - is impossible to accept. Elementary rationality and my decades-long experience with econometric modelling and statistical testing of scientific hypotheses tell me that it is impossible to make… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share
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