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Václav Klaus

President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013

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Václav Klaus was the President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013, serving during a period of significant political and economic development in the country. His presidency matters because it spanned the early years after the Czech Republic's European Union membership and represented an important chapter in the nation's transition to democracy following the end of communist rule.

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Born: 1941-06-19
Works: 55

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Marxova politická ekonomie a ekonomická teorie
Česko-německá deklarace
Rozum proti kovidové panice
Ekonomické aspekty koronakrize
The current European challenge

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Acting · Prague, Czechoslovakia

Václav Klaus (born 19 June 1941) is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, and then as the first prime minister…

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Zánik Československa v parlamentu — Self2024
Třicet svobodných — Self2019
Mečiar: The Lust For Power2017
Eye Over Prague2010
Oog in Oog — Self2010
What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government — Self1996

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During the Communist era, Klaus worked as a bank clerk and forecaster. After the fall of Communism in November 1989, he became the Minister of Finance in the "government of national unity". In 1991, Klaus was the principal co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). He was prime minister from 1992 to 1998, and from January to February 1993 he held certain powers of the Presidency.