Klaus praises US president’s ‘unexpectedly Czech’ speech

In the same interview, President Václav Klaus reacted to Sunday’s speech by US President Barack Obama at Prague Castle, praising it for being ‘unexpectedly Czech’. Mr Klaus said that the American President did not tie his speech to the EU-US Summit which took place later on Sunday in Prague’s Congress Centre, which, Mr Klaus said, was a good thing. In the course of his meeting with President Barack Obama at Prague Castle before the latter’s address, Mr Klaus said that the two men spent around three minutes discussing climate change. The Czech president is an outspoken climate-change denier, while Mr Obama dedicated a part of his speech on Sunday to laying out plans to fight global warming.