PM Nečas, ex-president Klaus attend Margaret Thatcher’s funeral

Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas and ex-president Václav Klaus attended the funeral of the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in London on Wednesday. Mr Klaus told the daily Mladá fronta Dnes that Mrs. Thatcher’s policies to a large extent inspired his government’s reforms in the 1990s including the deregulation, liberalization and privatization of the state-run economy. The former Czech president, who said the late Baroness Thatcher was “his heroine”, also appreciated her pragmatic approach to the European Union.