Czech President: "Climate change is a myth"

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, sounds like an interesting guy.

The European Union's new figurehead believes that climate change is a dangerous myth and has compared the [European] union to a Communist state...

The Czechs are also one of just three EU states not to have passed the controversial Lisbon treaty, which has enraged Mr Sarkozy after his drive to revive the document. Mr Klaus continues to lead Czech opposition to a treaty he likens to Communist centralism...

Last month Klaus described the EU presidency as “insignificant”. He likens Europe today with the continent which carved up Czechoslovakia under the 1938 Munich Agreement. At other times he has warned that the EU is as big a danger as the former Soviet Union...

He expressed surprise when Al Gore... won the Nobel peace prize. “The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct,” Klaus declared. “It rather seems that Gore’s doubting of the basic cornerstones of the current civilization does not contribute to peace...”

Klaus has reversed Havel's policy of avoiding many countries like China. His first major visit was to Russia and in 2006 he hosted Vladimir Putin in a style which was described by some pundits as "borderline-sycophancy" including using the Russian language to converse with him… Klaus has tried to cultivate friendly relationships with Russia and regularly defends it...