Václav Vaclav Klaus SIGNED Europe Czech EU European Union Brexit Economics 1st

Description: Europe: The Shattering of Illusions by Václav (Vaclav) Klaus SIGNED AND DATED (25.9.2013) BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE (without dedication); Bloomsbury Publishing 1st UK ed/1st printing having been translated from the Czech by Ondřej Hejma and with a Foreword by Christopher Booker, 180pp., text sound albeit with slight browning to pages & an old erased pencil price just visible to the top right hand corner of the front free end paper, slight staining to the page extremities at the very top, spine very slightly cocked, very minor rubbing to board corners at the bottom and to the top, bottom & sides of boards, bumping & rubbing to the top & bottom of the spine, the dust jacket is rubbed & creased at the top of the spine & rear with a number of marks & scratches on front & rear. The author is President of the Czech Republic. He hit the headlines most recently by refusing, like David Cameron, to sign up to the deal to bail out the Greek Government. In this new book, President Klaus examines the uneasy Europe of today, without illusions or personal attacks, but with a mercilessly realistic view of the system that Europe has created in the last half century. He examines the benefits of integrating the continent in strictly economic terms and explains the tragic flaw in the original plan to do so. They feared the consequences of nationalism and wanted to work for transcontinental unity. Klaus argues that the present situation is unstable and unsustainable. The President proposes a transformation of both the socio-economic system and the integration model of European unity, turning back to the market economy and a more realistic cooperation between European states. Václav (Vaclav) Klaus (born 19 June 1941) is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second and last Prime Minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, and then as the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998. During the Communist era, Klaus worked as a bank clerk and forecaster. After the fall of Communism in November 1989, he became the Minister of Finance in the "government of national unity". In 1991, Klaus was the principal co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). He was Prime Minister from 1992 to 1997, and from January to February 1993 he held certain powers of the Presidency. His government fell in the autumn of 1997; after the elections in the spring of 1998, he became the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies (1998–2002). After ODS lost the parliamentary elections of 2002, he withdrew from politics briefly, before being elected President of the Czech Republic in February 2003. He was re-elected in 2008 for a second five-year term. His presidency was marked by many controversies over his strong opinions on issues ranging from global warming denial to euroscepticism, and a wide-ranging amnesty declared in his last months of office, triggering his indictment by the Czech Senate on charges of high treason. Klaus left active politics after his second presidential term ended in March 2013 but continues to comment on domestic and foreign policy issues. His political views have been referred to as "Klausism". Will ship by Royal Mail 1st Class Signed for, well packaged. (£5.39/awdry) Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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