President and PM at loggerheads

The Czech President Vaclav Klaus and Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek are engaged in a heated dispute over the prime minister's proposal to compensate anti-fascist Sudeten Germans expelled from the country at the end of World War II despite the fact that they had actively opposed the Nazi regime. President Klaus said the prime minister must be "out of his mind to propose a plan that was irresponsible, imprudent and potentially dangerous". The opposition Civic Democratic Party, which Mr. Klaus founded, has also slammed the prime minister for planning to re-open sensitive WWII issues without first reaching broad political consensus on the matter. A senior party official said the prime minister was behaving like a bull in a china shop.