President Klaus questions significance of EP elections

President Václav Klaus has questioned the significance of this weekend's European elections. In Paris to promote a new book calling into question the dangers of climate change, Mr. Klaus said the traditionally low voter turnout in European elections was due to the fact that there is no real European community of people. We are talking about the French, Czechs, Germans, Poles, he argued. Mr. Klaus said the lack of interest was revealing and that he personally would be quite happy have to have the deputies elected into national parliaments represent their countries in Brussels. Mr. Klaus, who prefers the label Eurorealist to Eurosceptic, has long fought against the creation of what he says would be an artificial European super-state.