Czech president Klaus gets booed at / Na Vaclava Klause se bucelo

The Czech president Vaclav Klaus strongly criticized the EU during his speech an the European Parliament last Thursday. His fearless speech was greeted by an applause of many but also by disapproving boos by other members of the EP (see the 1st YouTube video bellow) . Believe it or not, but some of these oposers even demonstratively left the room! Why did people have such a passionate response? The main points of his speech are given bellow:

• “The EU is a revolutionary experiment which tries to improve the decision making in Europe by having its significant part transferred from individual states to European institutions”.

• “The current economic system of the EU suppresses competitive market and constantly strengthens the centralized economy”

• “The EU creates a great distance (and not just geographical distance) between the people and the political representatives of the EU; this distance is much greater than the one existing in the EU countries themselves”

• As far as the just-approved Lisbon treaty goes: “I am afraid that the attempts to speed up the process  of integration together with shifting the decisions of the lives of the EU citizens on the EU level may threaten all of the good things that have been achieved in Europe in the past 50 years”

According to the Ceske Noviny poll, 63% of the voters agree with Vaclav Klaus’ speech, whereas 33% think his word were provoking, hurting the Czech Republic’s image. What do you think?

If you would like to  review the  politics behind the Czech EU presidency and about the Lisbon treaty I found a user-friendly video on YouTube that will give you some kind of an understanding about these issues. Just click the play button bellow (2nd video):

CZ: President Vaclav Klaus ve ctvrtek na pude Evropskeho parlamentu  tvrde kitizoval soucasny stav Evropske unie. Jeho nebojacny proslov byl odmenen zcasti vasnivym potleskem a zcasti znechucenym bucenim (video dole). Cast nespokojenych europoslancu behem Klausova projevu na protest dokonce i opustila samotnou jednaci mistnost. Nize je uvedena osnova tech nejdulezitejsich bodu presidentova proslovu (jestlize mate zajem si precist cely projev, kliknete zde):

1. “EU je v podstate revolucnim experimentem, ktera se snazi udelat rozhodovani v Evrope lepsi tim, ze se jeho vyznamna cast presune z jednotlivych statu do celoevropskych instituci”

2. “Soucasny ekonomicky system unie potlacuje trh a nepretrzite posiluje centralni rizeni ekonomiky”

3. “Mezi obcany a predstaviteli unie je navic vzdalenost, a to nejenom v zemepisnem slova smyslu, ktera je v podstate vetsi, nez je tomu uvnitr jednotlivych clenskych zemi”

4. Klaus take kritizuje ve stredu schvalenou Lisabonskou smlouvu: “Obavam se, ze pokusy integraci dale urychlovat a prohlubovat a rozhodovani o podminkach zivota obcanu clenskych zemi ve stale vetsi mire posouvat na evropskou uroven, mohou svymi dusledky ohrozit vsechno pozitivni, co bylo za posledni pulstoleti v Evrope dosazeno,” doplnil.

Podle ankety Ceskych novin 63% ctenaru s Klausovym proslovem souhlasi, zatimco 33% si mysli, ze jeho vystopeni bylo po vsech strankach provokativni a Ceske republice uskodilo. Co si myslite vy?

Czech president gets booed at:

Overview of the Czech EU presidency:

Source:

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/eu/parlament/zpravy/klaus-v-ep-tvrde-kritizoval-eu-nekteri-europoslanci-odesli/361289