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Nasdaq: Czech President Klaus Says EU Election Pointless
PARIS (AFP)—President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said Tuesday that this weekend’s E.U. parliamentary elections would be a waste of time.
In Paris to promote a new book calling into question the dangers of climate change, the eurosceptic Klaus said: “I’m afraid that people living in Europe don’t feel the importance of the European elections.”
Asked what politicians might do to interest voters in the upcoming June 4-7 poll, which will elect representatives from the E.U.’s 27 member states to the European Parliament, Klaus said it would be useless to try.
“I don’t see any way, because there’s not a real European community of people, and they are not Europeans: they are French, Czechs, Germans, Poles,” he said.
“My understanding is that there’s no way how to create an artificially European ‘demos’, so I have no suggestion,” he said, using the Greek term for a national political community.
“For me the European elections are not necessary. I would be quite happy to send parliamentarians elected into national parliaments represent their countries in Brussels.”
Supporters of the European Parliament fear the poll will be marked by low voter turnouts, after campaigning in most of the member states failed to catch the public interest.
Tip: Gates of Vienna.
