HE'S AGAINST THE LISBON TREATY AND NOT KEEN ON THE EURO...MEET THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE EU.

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[Daily Mail-Thursday, January 1, 2009]

HE does not favour the Lisbon treaty, he's no fan of the euro and he has even likened the European Union to the Soviet Union.

So interesting times could be ahead when Vaclav Klaus takes over the rotating PRESIDENCY of the EU today.

The Czech president looks certain to use his tenure as an opportunity to publicise views which will enrage other EU leaders.

A bespectacled economist who came to prominence after Czechoslovak uprising against COMMUNISM a generation ago, he is a confirmed EUROSCEPTIC.

He has enthusiastically challenged European and International Policy on everything from CLIMATE CHANGE to relations with Russia.

The 67 -year-old compares bank bailouts  to old SOCIALISM, accuses the LISBON TREATY of contradicting CZECH SOVEREIGNTY and calls environmental issues a luxury.  This has led to numerous clashes with Mirek Topolanek, his pro- EU prime minister, and the next six months are unlikely to match the pro-EU rhetoric of FRENCH president Nicolas Sarkosy from whom he is taking the reins of office.

'It's pretty uncomfortable to hold the EU presidency when you've got a EUROSCEPTIC leader,' admitted a spokesman for the EUROPEAN POLICY CENTRE in BRUSSELS yesterday.

Mr Klaus, whose Czech office is largely ceremonial; even refuses to fly the EU FLAG at his PRAGUE CASTLE office, something Mr Sarkosy described earlier this month as 'hurtful' to EU colleagues.

The combative Czech quickly countered, saying the Frenchman's leadership -and what he called

A REFUSAL TO HEED CRITICISM - 'hurts the EUROPEAN UNION and hurts EUROPE'.

Mr Klaus built his political career in the early 1990s as a finance minister promoting rapid free-market reforms, founding and leading a conservative Civic Democratic party modelled partly on the Tories.

Pictures of Margaret Thatcher featured prominently in his publicity material.

He became prime minister in 1992 and held office for five years. He became Czech president in 2003, after Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

As president, Klaus has had less executive power but felt freer to air his opinions, especially TOWARDS THE EU.

He recently refused to join Western condemnation of Russian policy over Georgia and he challenges

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY.

HIS book disputing that man-made climate change is happening is entitled

'Blue Planet in Green Chains.'

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[A very apt statement by a courageous man who is a absolute gem to his people and country and a stark reminder of the shortage of such men in our once FREE PARLIAMENT.   In days past someone would have conveniently arranged an accident to deliver themselves from such a man. It must be most galling to the members of the old school many of whom are still in place though endeavour to keep out of the spotlight unless they are the front runners in the race for a NEW WORLD ORDER such as Gorbachev who it is stated is still the head of the KGB and whenever he is interviewed he speaks the truth about being a COMMUNIST of the old school but the Media and the majority of Western politicians are unable to comprehend his outspoken manner and decide that he is a good man after all - they are called 'useful idiots' and we have a fair number among our MEP's who will at the EUROPEAN ELECTION this year still state that they can change the EU from within. If anyone can find and exploit the fault lines of the EU it is Mr Klaus but whether one man can shake the foundations of the monster sufficient for it to fall he will have done a great deal for mankind and in particular EUROPE and for those freedom-loving people within our Island home.

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