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Vaclav Klaus' "collateral damage" of international law. (Part 3)

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Czech President has signed the Lisbon and got what he wanted: Again and again he had put for his signature a suspension of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is of course part of the Lisbon Treaty, as a precondition. Was repeated by the media in this context, the word "Benes Decrees" dropped and mentioned the risk of supposedly impending German compensation claims, of course, without explaining the historical background anyway.

Edvard Beneš was the Czechoslovak President, who announced previously approved by the Provisional National Assembly Beneš decrees in March 1946. This expropriated and sold over 3 million German ("Sudentendeutsche") and about half a million Hungarians. Here, some 250,000 German were killed. Two months after the Beneš Decrees the murders were legally declared as impunity ("amnesty law").

Sudetendeutsche 1946

Sudeten Germans in 1946

All this of course was illegal at that time in accordance with international law and the Geneva Conventions. The opinion of the Vienna State law expert Professor Felix Ermacora 1990 (for the Bavarian state government) also qualified the events as genocide, when he saw satisfies the conditions of intent in a state.

Genocide and genocide in civil criminal "murder" notes since the disasters of the 20th century (eg the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the expulsion of Germans after World War 2, ethnic "cleansing" population "transfers" world) the worst crime against the state. Unfortunately such crimes can be difficult so far punished, since there is ultimately all about survival of the fittest and measured almost always double standards and will. (more ...)

Vaclav Klaus signs Lisbon. His insights to the EU came too late. (Part 2)

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Vaclav Klaus staged himself as the last bulwark against Lisbon and sole advocate of freedom and democracy in Europe. Nevertheless, he gave himself: "I was the one who gave the application for EU membership in 1996 and who signed the Accession Treaty of 2002." (Part 1 ...) If he really did not know what was in him "But the agreement within the EU? have many alternatives. One of them [the Lisbon Treaty, Anm.d.Aut.] To be regarded as sakrosant, untouchable, where you can not log in doubt or criticism, is against the very character of Europe. "

Who is Klaus? Born in 1941, Prague is actually an economist, he completed his studies in the 1960s under the socialist regime in Czechoslovakia in Italy and the USA. Then Klaus worked in the academic setting and the Czechoslovak Central Bank. He never stood out as real dissident. He was Czechoslovak Minister of Finance, from 1992-97 he was Czech Prime Minister in 2003 then President in 1989. In particular, three things are connected to Klaus: The separation of Slovakia (1993), which was not without controversy, the introduction of a free market economy and the EU accession of the Czech Republic. Moreover, Klaus is a staunch transatlanticist why he campaigned for the deployment of US missile defense system in the Czech Republic and had no problems with deteriorating relations with Russia. (more ...)

Vaclav Klaus against the Eurocrats (Part 1)

Tuesday, 03 November, 2009.

A few days ago I received a mass mail, in addition to an article by German-Foreign-Policy.com entitled "Defenestration of Prague, numerology Four" contained (no author) and a call by online to encourage the Czech President Vaclav Klaus is the Lisbon Treaty not to sign.

[As I write this, it is quite possible that Klaus, as announced, Lisbon will sign after being agreed at EU level with the tschechischerseits demanded suspension of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.]

Unrestricted sign worth, I thought, for the Lisbon Treaty should be stopped simply because of the reintroduction of the death penalty ... but I made the "mistake" to read the offered GFP background article accurate and me detail with the motives of Mr. Klaus deal why he was at the signing of the Parliament of the Czech already ratified the document still graces.

My enthusiasm was dampened because I came to the conclusion that Klaus has some questionable motives, and he is at all a most dazzling, multi-faceted person. (He is also author the book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles") Despite this still under assessment ambivalence, it's nice to see one of the few European leaders who still such a thing as life experience outside of party politics, personality profile and a very significant debate has - a rare nascent counterpart to the species of the popular party professionals, who, since he came into puberty and the first pimple plagued him from a party event to another talking and before appropriateness is replete therein called only by the . Eurocrats to be outdone.

Eurocrats occur with preference in a pack. In this way, narrowed by many seats in large, soft EU standard seating, and waiting for her prince pensions in their courage Brussels lace forces minimize personal risk.

Hereinafter referred to as document the protocol of an attack (5.12.2008) by three EU Wadenbeißern on the surprised Czech President. Participants of "Hau den Klaus': Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Brian Crowley and Hans-Gert Poettering. The three had agreed that Cohn only grab from left, Crowley then yapping from the right and make Poettering as President of the European Parliament in between every now from above "Dong" should. (more ...)