Vaclav Has Some Greek Anxiety

Greece's little problem balancing the checkbook, and impending rescue from fellow EU countries has Vaclav a little uncomfortable.

Klaus told the Prague Daily Monitor:

"Greece's problems would thus lead to further tightening of harmonising and unifying tendencies in the EU. This would be a very bad scenario but this is precisely where the absurd idea that the EU should start to control the budgets of individual member countries, which appeared last week, is heading."

Vaclav has had a history of being skeptical of giving too much power to the EU, especially concerning economic policies.

"The state budget is a very political instruments, governments are falling because of it. Separating the state budget from politics, entrusting it to quasi-experts in the EU, would mean the end of the world for me," Klaus told the Prague Daily Monitor, bringing in just a bit of melodrama.

While Vaclav's reservations are justified, we do sometimes tire of hearing his paranoid bitching about the impending European Union metaphorphais into the "United States of Europe". Honestly, if he doesn't cool it on the mega-government takeover conspiracy rhetoric, someone is going to need to get him a hoodie, some aviators, and a shack in Montana.

Vaclav Shows His Sensitive Side

Vaclav made the trip to Poland to express his condolences over buddy and former fellow Lisbon Treaty maveric, Polish President Lech Kaczynski.

Vaclav told the Czech new source Ceske Noviny:

"The feeling of the loss is intensifying rather than diminishing as the days pass...I think that I and a crushing majority of us are more and more realizing what happened, with what context and how unfortunate it is."

We advice Vaclav to make a trip over to the Irish Republic, where he can nurse his sorrows in the opened arms of fellow Euroskeptics and a hefty pint of Guinness.

Chillin' With the Russians

The President of Russian, Dmitry Medvedev is set to chat with Vaclav this Thursday, according the Russian news service, Rianovosti. Sergei Prikhodko, Mr. Medvedev's aide, told Rianovosti:

"During our meeting in Prague we will discuss stepping up trade and cultural relations, strengthening regional and international ties and the issues faced by Russia-EU and Russia-NATO relations."

This is all going down on the same day that Barack Obama is set to meet with the Russian President in Prague to discuss a reduction in nuclear arms.


Sounds like a party!!! We love that Russia is willing to kick it European powers as well as the US.