Czech Art Attack Provokes EU

Czech sculpture provokes EU despots: Entropa. They don't like it up 'em.

Here's a link to the Czech's own EU2009 website with a link to the catalogue.

Klaus in the Lion's Den

The EU's new President for the next six months, Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, looks set to stir things up and make himself even more unpopular amongst the colleagues in Brussels.

In an article in FT.com, entitled 'Do not tie the markets - free them' he says:

As regards the EU's "constitutional" stalemate, the Czech government will - hopefully - not lead Europe to an ever-closer union, to a Europe of regions (instead of states), to a centralised, supranational Europe or to an increasingly controlled and regulated Europe masterminded from above. It will keep stressing its EU presidency slogan "Europe without barriers", which means the advocacy of further liberalisation, removing trade barriers and getting rid of protectionism.

Our historical experience gives us a clear instruction: we always need more of markets and less of government intervention. We also know that government failure is more costly than market failure.

That certainly won't go down well with the autocrats in charge.

I look forward to seeing what smears, lies, innuendos and attacks Klaus is going to be subjected to over the next six months.

Triumphant Sarkozy Rides Grauniad's EU Elephant

So, whoever writes the editorial in today's Guardian thinks Sarkozy has done a great job of being the EU's President for the past however long it is these prickfaces get the job.

Apparently Sarko and the EU showed themselves to be important diplomatically over the Russia-Georgia spat:

Few believe Mr Sarkozy's claim to have talked Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, out of going all the way to Tbilisi, but at the time, the dialogue between the two men was the only game in town, and the means by which the Russian columns withdrew, albeit partially. European diplomacy, so easy to dismiss, stuttered back to life.

"Stuttered back to life" - really? Sure it wasn't just the Russians saying "Fuck off, you tossers, while we finish what we came for"?

And it was Sarko who saved the world from financial doom - not Gordon Brown:

Mr Sarkozy knocked together heads both in and out of the eurozone, and showed that the EU was capable of taking collective decisions when it mattered.

Collective decisions that came after the crisis had happened and after many countries had already acted on their own initiative. Collective decisions which are useless, it should also be said.

But here's the juicy bit:

And the Irish government kept the Lisbon treaty alive by agreeing to a second referendum next year.

The Irish kept it alive? Sorry, but I thought they had a free vote which technically should have killed it stone dead (for the second time). Which it should have done if the EU were a democratic institution and not the unelected dictatorship it actually is.

The writer continues this soviet-style applause by insulting the Czech Republic (wonder why? check this out) :

What if two major international crises had happened during the presidency of a smaller member nation, like the Czech Republic, which takes over for the next six months?

The answer is: fuck all, the same as really happened under Sarkozy.

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