(Grumpy) Uncle Vaclav
My attitude towards Vaclav Klaus has been always rather negative. However, I have changed my mind recently. In spite of this that I definitely do not agree with his opinions on global warming and the environment, I must approve of his “EU activities”.
Latest confrontations of the Czech President with the organs of the Union made me feel like the European Union is a kind of a “yes club”. Is not the Union’s motto: “United in diversity”? I am under the impression that the diversity is not about race, sex or religion only. It could appeal to ideas and opinions as well. Why must everybody agree on everything that the Union suggest? Are not different views a way how to trigger a mutual dialogue and how to make people think?
It is undisputable that Vaclav Klaus’s opinions on the environment are weird. One cannot just disapprove of what one can see. There are scientific proofs that the Earth is getting warmer and warmer as well as that the Maldives are sinking. I think it would be naïve and totally irresponsible to say that the nature itself is to blame. Of course, these are the results of industrial activities.
If there are no other reasons to save this little blue planet, there is still one economic one. A basic theory of economics can teach you that an economist is an egoist. If there are no resources left in the future, there will be no production because there will be nothing to produce from. If there is nothing to produce, there will be no profits. This may be one good reason even for an absolute egoist to save something from this planet.
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Actually, I don't think that the EU doesn't respect different ideas or deviations of what the author calls as the "YES club". The forms of integration have been discussed during the whole history of the EU: discussion about the currency, about CAP, about the Maastricht treaty etc. etc. He is not right, that there is no discussion about the direction of the EU development, about the deeper and deeper integration: the whole discussion about the EU constitution was one of the most prominent and most evident examples. And it hapenned after a consensus emerged, that something "like a constitution" could be valuable for the members of the EU, not because of some "need for deeper integration" that is, according to Vaclav Klaus, inherited to all steps that the EU does. VK's criticism is simply misleading and faulty.
Moreover, it depends on, who is criticising. Vaclav Klaus is rather to much against everything that is connected with the EU that his ideas are not taken as constructive.
He has been doing that consistently for many years. For his neverending and destructive criticism he was asked whether it is really the Czech Republic who would like to join the EU - because his rhetorics feels like the EU would like to join the Czech Republic. This story is today more than ten years ago - as far as I know it hapenned in 1996 on the World Economic Forum in Davos, in times when VK started officially the accession process of the Czech Republic into the EU.
Currently Vaclav Klaus is perceived as a capricious oldy by an important part of the public. So he's ideas shouldn't be perceived as relevant: he's a president of an EU member state, but his position are rather weird in the Czech context, too.
Klaus is correct in his attitude to the eu, it is a yes mans club, and the ordinary citizen, i.e. not a political class member, has been entirely disenfranchised by the ever more corrupt and democratically deficient manner in which the eu operates. The level of integration has never been discussed with the people who matter, us the citizens of 27 previously free nations, but only by those who directly benefit from it. If the constitution is valuable, why is it that despite the only 3 countries that allowed their citizens a vote, are being ignored by those who didn't dare to and they intend to implement it against the wishes of the people.
Klaus is also correct about Global warming, scientific evidence shows that the earth was cooling in the mid 90's and has continued to do so, these fluctuations are natural, and nothing man made could cause this problem, it is simply another method of screwing more money out of ordinary citizens to line the pockets of the political class.
je suis daccord!! :)
la vie change chaque seconde ouiiiii:)
parfois faut faire attention
et pourquoi ne pas refaire ca une fois encore
faut surtout respecter ses idees
seulement ceux qui vivent ca peuvent savoir combien c difficile
lavenir est prometteur dans ce domaine :)
c pas si difficile que ca non?!!
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