Václav Klaus

President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013

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Born 1941
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Mečiar: The Lust For P…
2017

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Updated 2026-06-09

He drove the Czech Republic through its birth as an independent nation, then spent a decade as president denying climate science and fighting the European Union hard enough to face treason charges on his way out.

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Václav Klaus worked as a bank clerk under Communism until the regime fell in November 1989, when he became Minister of Finance in the transitional government. He co-founded the Civic Democratic Party in 1991 and became prime minister in 1992, navigating Czechoslovakia's dissolution that January and serving as the first prime minister of the independent Czech Republic until 1998. His government collapsed in 1997; after a stint as president of the Chamber of Deputies, he won the presidency in February 2003. His two terms were defined by confrontation: vocal climate change denial, fierce Euroscep…

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Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

— (2007)

Václav Klaus

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You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

— The Sierra Staff Strikes Back, With Some Help From The SPLC

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We must say openly that the present economic system of the EU is a system of a suppressed market, a system of a permanently strengthening centrally controlled economy.

— Speech in the European Parliament, on EU

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