C’est la liberté qui est en danger. Le climat va bien.

So says Czech President Vaclav Klaus, one of the very few genuine thinkers in European politics. I commend his August speech (H/T Brussels Journal) to the Aix-en-Provence Summer University, in which he also very accurately characterises the thinking of the Eurocultist elite as including;

- economic (or social) views based on the concept of the so called social market economy (which is the opposite of the market economy);

- views on freedom, democracy and society based on collectivism, social partnership and corporatism, not on classical parliamentary democracy;

- views on European integration, which favour unification and supranationalism;

- views on foreign policy and international relations based on internationalism, cosmopolitism, abstract universalism, multiculturalism and on denationalization.

As well as what he terms 'an irrational attempt to fight the climate'.

Klaus has seen Eastern Europe emerge from one totalitarianism only to risk becoming enveloped by another - one without the gulags, but no less threatening to personal liberty for all that.

Hear him well.