Vaclav Klaus calls on Europe’s democrats to resist further integration

Former Czech president Vaclav Klaus has slammed a declaration by Green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit urging young Europeans to hoist integration to a new level. In a petition published on his web page, Mr. Klaus warns that Europe’s radicals “both red and green” such as Mr. Cohn-Bendit are pushing for the final transformation of the EU, originally an international organisation, into a European super-state, designed to destroy the historical European states together with the concept of democracy that is indivisibly and inseparably associated with them. He warns against the creation of a European "melting-pot of nations" in the style of the old Soviet Union and calls on Europe’s democrats to wake up before it is too late.