Increasingly Sophisticated Technology and the Dangerous Dreams and Utopias of Our Times - Notes for the Microsoft conference in Prague

English Pages, 1. 2. 2005

Ladies and Gentlemen, Distinguished Guests,

thank you for inviting me to be here with you tonight and for giving me the opportunity to express my views on some of your topics. If I understand it correctly the topic of your important conference, which we are privileged to have here, in Prague, is “The Role of Information Technologies and of the Knowledge Economy in Public Administration”.

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President’s address delivered at the state dinner held for the President of Malta

English Pages, 18. 1. 2005

Distinguished President, Madame Fenech-Adami, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a great honour for me to welcome you at the Prague Castle on the occasion of your official visit to the Czech Republic. I truly appreciate your visit to our country and firmly believe it will further enhance our mutual relations and understanding.

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The Descartes Prizes 2004 - Opening speech by Václav Klaus

English Pages, 2. 12. 2004

Ladies and gentlemen,

it is a real pleasure for me to address this ceremonial gathering on the occasion of awarding the Descartes prize for excellence in scientific research and the Descartes prize for excellence in scientific communication.

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Integration or Unification of Europe: Notes for the Berlin Speech

English Pages, 20. 11. 2004

1. Europe, or to put it in a more proper way, the European Union, is – for most of us – our current main concern and preoccupation. It is so because it increasingly influences and determinates our lives, because it more and more constitutes the basic institutional framework for our existence, because it forces us to look more and more at what is going on in Brussels, and because it requires us to get rid of our old loyalties and to accept new ones.

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Notes for Fraser Institute Student Seminar: Moving to a Market Economy and the Difficulties of such a Transition

English Pages, 14. 11. 2004

I try to be consistent in my views. I looked, therefore, at the speech I gave here on the occasion of getting an honorary doctorate degree in February 1997.

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Czech Republic’s Transition, European Problems and the Fraser Institute

English Pages, 11. 11. 2004

I am really honored to be celebrating, together with the Fraser Institute, its 30th anniversary and to receive the Founders Award. I say that not as a conventional courtesy, it reflects my actual feelings.

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Czech Republic and the EU: The Marriage of Convenience, Not of Love

English Pages, 9. 11. 2004

When I was last time here, in San Francisco, six years ago, my country was still in the first decade of its post-communist era. We were still deeply involved in our, so-called transformation process. It is, therefore, not surprising that the title of the speech I delivered here then was “The Political Economy of Transition: The Czech Lesson”.

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Address delivered by President Václav Klaus to the members of Diplomatic Corps on the occasion of the Czech National Day

English Pages, 28. 10. 2004

Today – on the 28th of October when we celebrate the Czech National Day – we commemorate the founding of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, a founding of a country that was free and democratic.

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Problems of Reestablishing Freedom and Democracy in the EUropean Context

English Pages, 20. 10. 2004

It is a great honour, and pleasure, to be here to speak to you today and to receive such an important and valuable award from your University. I say that not as a conventional courtesy, it reflects my actual feelings.

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European Problems and Their Non-Solutions

English Pages, 20. 10. 2004

When discussing Europe now, at the beginning of the 21th century, I must confess that I am more and more nervous. Both because of what the discussion contains and because of what it is missing.

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