Address by the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus on the Occasion of His State Visit to Nigeria

English Pages, 7. 12. 2006

Dear Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen,

Allow me to use this special opportunity for expressing my thanks for the invitation to visit your country and for the warm welcome extended to me, my wife and my delegation here

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Notes for The European Colloquia Conference

English Pages, 30. 11. 2006

Thank you for organizing this important gathering here in Prague, thank you for bringing so many famous economists to this country, and thank you for giving me a chance to say a few words here this morning.

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Notes for the Riga NATO summit

English Pages, 29. 11. 2006

1. I would like to thank President Vike-Freiberga and all the organizers of the Riga summit for the excellent preparation and organization of this meeting.

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Europe at the Crossroad: Where to go?

English Pages, 23. 11. 2006

It is a great honor for me to receive the honorary doctorate degree at the University of Athens. I take it as a personal award which reflects my political and academic activities both at home and abroad.

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What is Europeism?

English Pages, 20. 11. 2006

In recent years, both in my country and abroad, I have often spoken and written about Europeism, which I consider to be the dominant ideology of the contemporary Europe. In spite of the existing pluralism of opinions in many particular things, this ideology more or less determines all the important current events in Europe through its exceptional strength, its general acceptance and its dangerous simplicity.

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Notes for the Frankfurt Speech: Free Trade and Freedom

English Pages, 17. 11. 2006

Thank you for the invitation to this important gathering, and especially for giving me such a privileged speaking position.

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Welcome Address for the CEP – FEE – EF Conference “The Future of the European Union”

English Pages, 14. 11. 2006

I am extremely pleased to be here and to see all of you here today. I would also like at the very beginning of this conference to thank all who helped to organize this important gathering.

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The politician I admire

English Pages, 13. 11. 2006

Margaret Thatcher, a remarkable woman, one of the greatest politicians of modern age, celebrated her 80th birthday last year, while being active, giving speeches, writing, and attending one event after the other all around the world.

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The Economic Issues Concerning the EU´s Future

English Pages, 10. 11. 2006

This is not my first visit at your university. I was here 17 years ago, in the spring of 1989, in the moment of already unstoppable meltdown of the communist regime in my country and in other parts of Central and Eastern Europe. The regime was so soft and weak at that time that it allowed me to make a trip to the University of Aarhus, to meet professors and students and to make a speech here.

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The European Union: From unification back to integration

English Pages, 9. 11. 2006

The past 50 years of the European integration process is usually considered to be a success, even if it is very difficult to prove it, to evaluate it analytically, or to measure it. Scientific measurement is very problematic in such complex processes.

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