UPI interview with Czech president: "I am convinced you cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state. "

Then what are the United States?

You've got to hand it to him: Klaus is, if anything, an independent thinker with his own, somewhat uncommon, worldview. Later he says the perception of European "smiles" and dismissal of the war on terror is "is more a reflection of American anti-Europeanism than European anti-Americanism." Then he says the biggest threat to Europe is not terrorism but rather "the trap of a new form of collectivism." Link via Prague Monitor.