President Klaus makes fresh anti-euro statements

Czech president Václav Klaus has called the euro “no great success” and has said that the common European currency could soon face a “serious crisis” in a comment piece for the Financial Times on Thursday. Mr Klaus added that growth in the eurozone was slower than in the United States and the European Union as a whole, and said therefore that it was “uncertain” whether the single European currency should be celebrated. President Klaus has long been an outspoken critic of the euro. In April, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek advised against a hasty adoption of the euro in the Czech Republic. His government has refused to set a target date for it.