Czech President Vaclav Klaus said that those concerned about global warming are advocating the same thing that the communists did — state control.
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Czech President Vaclav Klaus said that those concerned about global warming are advocating the same thing that the communists did — state control.
Politicians don’t like to get egg on their faces, but one Czech politician is having a particularly difficult time avoiding that. Jiri Paroubek of the Social Democrat Party has raised the ire of his opponents to the point that he is routinely pelted with eggs — hundreds of eggs.
Two weeks ago, someone threw an egg [...]
In the strongest language of any European leader, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek attacked the Obama financial plan. Toopolanek said the enormous sale of bonds to finance the American spending “will undermine the stability of the global financial market.”
Topolanek told the European Parliament that the massive deficit spending and protectionist “Buy American” attitude combine as [...]
Irish voters recently rejected the Lisbon European Union Treaty. This treaty was a redrafting of the Constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters three years ago.
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former French President and drafter of the EU Constitution, has suggested that the Irish will have to vote again until they get it right. “There is no [...]
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
— Ernest Benn