As Sally McNamara wrote yesterday, only one man stands
in the way of the Eurocrats consolidating their power in Brussels
against the wishes of many Europeans.
The Guardian profiles Klaus, a stalwart for liberty
and limited government:
For a man standing alone between Europe and its future, Vaclav
Klaus is playing hard to get. Last week a trip to Albania, this
week Russia; the Czech president has performed a vanishing act
just when he has the rest of Europe dancing to his tune.
He relishes being at the centre of a showdown. But it appears
he is currently more interested in selling copies of his tract
on global warming denial.
Last week, as a panicky campaign was launched in Berlin, Paris,
Brussels, Stockholm, and Prague to try to force Europe's
biggest renegade into line, Klaus was dining by the Adriatic.
For five days he refused to return phone calls from Fredrik
Reinfeldt, the Swedish prime minister and current EU president
saddled with the Klaus emergency. Jan Fischer, the Czech
Republic's caretaker prime minister, has an even less
enviable task, as mediator between Klaus and the rest of
Europe's leaders. But Klaus won't give him the time of day.
Fischer admitted he had managed to get him briefly on the
phone, but not to arrange a meeting.
If that wasn't enough to drive the usual suspects into near
hysteria, Klaus also has campaigned against the global
warming alarmists who are prepared to wreck the global economy in
order to stop warming that so far is proving to be decidedly
modest--even nonexistent over the past decade. In short,
Klaus is not just un-PC. He is un-PC squared.
Perhaps we can draft Klaus to run here when he finishes his
term as president of the Czech Republic. (Never mind
that inconvenient constitutional language about the U.S.
president being born in America!)
