Václav Klaus: Cap Ferrat, Tito Tettamanti and a Stagnating and Dedemocratizing Europe

English Pages, 6. 9. 2025

It’s great to be in Cap Ferrat. The beauty of this place remains unchanged in spite of all the dramatic events in the world since 2016, when I was privileged to be here for the first and only time. 

It is also encouraging to see our host, Tito Tettamanti, in such a good shape. While all of us are getting older, he remains the same. Not just physically. His mind is as sharp, as we have known it for decades. The small book he sent me as 2025 New Year’s greetings “Confessioni di un conservatore” proves this quite persuasively. Even my poor Italian made it possible for me to appreciate it.

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Notes for Karpacz 2025: Should We – and Eventually Can We – Do Anything with Climate?

English Pages, 4. 9. 2025

I have been engaged in the climate debate already for at least two decades. I belong among the veterans of this debate. I have written dozens of articles, made speeches all over the world (on all continents) and published three books on this topic. One of them has been translated into 18 languages. Rather than summarizing their main message myself, let me use a formulation made by the highly esteemed British author Paul Johnson, who famously said that the belief in man-made global warming (now euphemistically called climate change) is “a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science”. 

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Notes for the Presentation of the Book “In Defence of Normalcy” at the Economic Forum in Karpacz

English Pages, 2. 9. 2025

I would like to thank the representatives of the Karpacz Economic Forum for organizing the presentation of this book of mine here. Most of my books are, of course, written in Czech. For this occasion, I chose to present my English collection of articles and speeches, which was published in Prague in the spring of 2025. These texts were written in English over the past three years. The included speeches were delivered at conferences in 10 European countries, from Portugal to Turkey, from Budapest to Vienna. 

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Václav Klaus in Karpacz: What Future for Europe?

English Pages, 2. 9. 2025

Many thanks for the invitation to the Karpacz Economic Forum 2025. This Forum is undoubtedly the largest conference of its kind in our region, that is, in Central Europe. To my great regret, we don’t have anything similar in my country, in the Czech Republic. There are several reasons for this, but the most important one is that Poland has a foreign policy and is, therefore, able to have its own views and political stances. 

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The Vaclav Klaus Institute Statement on the USA - Russia Talks

English Pages, 11. 8. 2025

We Call on the Government of the Czech Republic: Do Not Take Part in Attempts to Undermine the Chance for Peace Represented by the Upcoming Russia–U.S. Summit in Alaska

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Ed Feulner Has Died

English Pages, 22. 7. 2025

On Friday, July 18, one of the most prominent American conservatives, Ed Feulner, founder and for decades president of the famous Heritage Foundation, passed away at the age of 83.

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Interview with Václav Klaus and Glenn Diesen: Europe in Decline

English Pages, 14. 7. 2025

President Václav Klaus participated in an online interview with Prof. Glenn Diesen on July 10, 2025. 

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Václav Klaus for the Budapest Global Dialogue: Positively Towards a New Geopolitical Reality

English Pages, 17. 6. 2025

Many thanks for the invitation to participate in the Budapest Global Dialogue conference and to share a panel with distinguished and internationally respected political leaders. I am always glad to be in Hungary, in a country that plays a unique and irreplaceable role in Europe now. And – what is quite visible – whose role is visibly increasing.

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The War in Ukraine as a Prelude to a Multipolar World

English Pages, 7. 6. 2025

Let me, more or less, continue my speech here several days ago. I discussed recent changes in the world and mentioned the Ukraine war as one of the most tragic, most inexcusable and most indefensible events of our time. My main point in this context is that it did not fall unexpectedly from the sky. It was a long time in the making and the world – the international institutions, governments, and all of us – failed to prevent it. This is my – probably debatable – starting point.

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Václav Klaus from the Hillsdale College Cruise: Recent Changes in the World, in Europe, and in the U.S. as Seen from Prague

English Pages, 29. 5. 2025

Let me begin by greeting all of you and by expressing my hope that you’re enjoying the cruise as much as I am. My personal attitude toward being at sea is very simple. I have spent my entire life in the Czech Republic, in a land-locked country located in the very heart of Europe, and because of that, any opportunity to be at sea is something special and extraordinary for me. For the first decades of my life – more than half of it – I lived in the semi-closed communist country. Traveling abroad, let alone to the sea, was a rare privilege. That is why I feel obliged to enjoy the sea whenever there is a chance.

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