Word: czechs
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...Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus delivered both a typically blunt analysis of European Union (EU) affairs as well as a slightly optimistic vision for the future in a speech before students and faculty yesterday at Harvard’s Center for European Studies...
Klaus, who was in office in May 2004 when the Czech Republic achieved EU membership, has quickly become one of the most outspoken critics of the creation of a European super-nation that he believes the EU is facilitating...
Klaus was especially outspoken on the claims that the Czech Republic could not survive and flourish without the EU. He said that such a view could threaten both individual state sovereignty and national pride...
Klaus also said he that he supports the Czech Republic’s membership despite his opposition to many of the EU practices. Klaus’s justification for Czech membership lies in the idea that post-Communist countries need EU acceptance to achieve some modicum of “international recognition” and legitimacy...
...identity, but at what expense do we try to keep it? If not for the constant change and development of cultures and languages, France would never have developed its identity, an identity it is fighting to retain in part with laws to preserve its language. As an American of Czech, Scottish, British, German and Native American heritage, I have found it is unrealistic to become attached to just one of these defined groups, so I have cultivated a larger sense of community tied to all of them. I don't feel less a person for it. I'm saddened...