Word: klaus
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...brewing. No one can tell if it will be a Category 1 or a Category 5 storm or when it will hit. Katrina taught us you can survive the initial catastrophe and perish in the aftermath. "We are seeing the unfolding of a pandemic in slow motion," Dr. Klaus Stohr of WHO told a group of business leaders at Deutsche Bank in New York City last month. "We can reduce the damage, but we cannot avoid...
...Klaus also challenged the idea that the growth and unification of the EU would benefit member states, since he argued that it would only decrease members’ autonomy...
...commented that debate, and consequently progress, is nearly impossible in Europe since it is “difficult to have a free discussion” and since contrary voices are “hardly hear-able.” Furthermore, Klaus reiterated that the EU currently creates the “wretched effect” of groups of member states blindly following the actions of one state, an effect that he said is even further lessening the democracy of each individual member state...
When asked by an audience member to voice his opinion on the pending admission of Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Turkey into the EU, he stated that he supports their admission. Klaus used the blackboard to demonstrate his logic, drawing a graph indicating that the more member states that join, the shallower their integration will...
...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...