Selected speeches and interviews
1/26/2013, Santiago de Chile -
EU-CELAC summit speech: Economic growth is the best promoter of social and environmental goals
President Piñera, dear colleagues, Thank you for the invitation to attend this important gathering and for its perfect organization. Just the weather...
11/5/2012, Vientiane, Laos -
ASEM speech: The lasting crisis in Europe and the continuing growth in Asia: Why is it so?
Mr Chairman, dear colleagues, I would like to thank the organizers of the summit for giving many of us the possibility to for the first time visit...
10/28/2012, Prague Castle -
President's address on the Czech National Day
Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, we have gathered here in these historical premises again to commemorate that the modern Czech state is one...
10/28/2012, Prague Castle -
Address to the Members of the Diplomatic Corps on the Occasion of the Czech National Day
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me and for my wife to welcome you here at the Prague Castle on the occasion of the...
9/26/2012, New York -
Address of the President of the Czech Republic at the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly
Mr. Chairman, I would like to congratulate you on your election to serve as the highest representative of the 67th session of the United Nations...
6/10/2012, Los Angeles -
Global Governance and its European Variant
Many thanks for giving me a chance to come again to this very beautiful but also (as seen from Prague) very remote part of the world. Nevertheless, I...
5/22/2012, Chicago -
Notes for the Heartland Institute Conference Speech
Many thanks for the invitation and for giving me the opportunity to address this distinguished audience. I am not for the first time in Chicago. It is...
4/21/2012, Fez, Morocco -
How Regimes Collapse and How to Go Back to Liberty? (Notes for Fez)
Mr. Rector, members of the Mont Pelerin Society, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank you for the invitation. Being here...
4/2/2012, Cercle de l’Union interalliée, Paris -
Introductory Remarks to the Presentation of the Book „Sauver les démocraties en Europe“
Many thanks for the publication of this collection of my recent texts and speeches about Europe here in France and in French language. This book may, hopefully, give – at least to interested and concerned readers – the direct contact with my views, not with their very often intentional and calculated caricature in the media.
2/16/2012, Adana, Turkey -
Speech of the President at Çukurova University in Turkey
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Students, Thank you for the invitation to visit your university and for the possibility to address this audience....
