The re-election of anti-mass migration Eurosceptic Miloš Zeman to the Czech presidency has caused panic in Brussels, with a referendum on the Slavic country’s EU membership possibly on the cards.
Czech President Miloš Zeman “won on a platform of fierce opposition to radical Islam and the EU’s plans to impose compulsory migrant quotas on member-states.”
Now with the possibility of a “Czexit” or “Czechout” referendum, complications are mounting for the Europe Union, not only because of countries wanting to leave it, but also due to its suicidal immigration policies, which have led to chaos, deep party divisions, a grim economic outlook, crime surges, no-go zones, jihad attacks and thousands of jihadists that Europe has lost track of.
The Visegrad group (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) has stood against EU quotas. Right before Christmas, Hungarian leader Viktor Orban said that “his country would form an ‘insurmountable roadblock’ against EU attempts to trigger Article 7. Orban said, ‘if one attacks Poland, it attacks all of Central Europe.'”
Article 7 is deemed to be “EU’s ultimate ‘nuclear option’” against countries “that have fallen out of line with the bloc.”
Ironically, the article of the 2007 Lisbon Treaty is intended to “uphold the EU’s core values of freedom, democracy and the rule of law,” which the EU has overwhelmingly violated in its policy of indiscriminate immigration.
“Brussels on the Brink: Freshly Re-elected Czech President May Call EU Referendum”, by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, January 29, 2018:
The reelection of anti-mass migration Eurosceptic Miloš Zeman to the Czech presidency has caused panic in Brussels, with a referendum on the Slavic country’s EU membership possibly on the cards.
President Zeman won on a platform of fierce opposition to radical Islam and the EU’s plans to impose compulsory migrant quotas on member-states, as well as the bloc’s sanctions on Russia — which he sees as harming European exporters for no appreciable benefit.
The 73-year-old defeated challenger Jiří Drahoš, a left-liberal academic, in every single electoral district outside the cosmopolitan capital and its environs in the first round of the elections — but figures in Brussels hoped the so-called ‘centrist’ candidates asking their voters to swing behind Drahoš in round two would oust the populist incumbent.
However, the veteran Zeman was able to see off the former President of the Czech Academy of Sciences after besting him in a series of head-to-head debates, despite the media — with whom he has an even more stormy relationship than U.S. President Donald Trump — constantly bombarding him with now-familiar accusations of being a Russian puppet.
Zeman’s long-standing opposition to mass migration stood him in good stead compared to his opponent, who voiced half-hearted opposition to the EU’s quotas but suggested he would be open to migrants in “limited” numbers. Polls suggest as many as three-quarters of Czechs are opposed to taking migrants from Muslim-majority countries.
This victory, following big wins for conservatives, nationalists, and populists in Austria and in the Czech parliamentary elections last year, alongside the rise of the AfD in Germany and the erosion of globalist-in-chief Angela Merkel’s electoral authority, has set the EU elite on edge.
While officially in support of the Czech Republic continuing its membership of the European Union, Zeman did put his weight behind offering the people a Brexit-style referendum during his election campaign. With the bloc’s approval ratings in the country at an all-time low, this presents Brussels with a real risk of a ‘Czexit’ or ‘Czechout’, before the United Kingdom’s departure is even official.
“Brexit is a decision that must be respected,” Zeman said on the campaign trail, suggesting that the Czech people should be allowed a vote on their future as well.
Drahoš’s position had been quite different, with the challenger warning that such a vote could be “very dangerous”, and that the Czech Republic did not have a tradition of allowing its citizens a direct say in politics, like nearby Switzerland…..
StellaSaidSo says
NOT TIRED OF WINNING!
Matt says
Czexit has a nice ring to it.
jura says
I am a Czech. Allow me to describe political situation. Zeman and former president Vaclav Klaus are last Czech politicians in classical sense, both coming from the 1990s. They stand with ideas and they defend them. Zeman is a social democat in clasical meaning, Klaus is a conservative. Problem is: there are no successors. Other Czech politicians are not defending any ideas. Both Zeman and Klaus are over 70 years of age. Thus in 5 years after Zeman ends his second term, Czechs will have to solve a problem whom to elect as the head of the state. No good choice in sight.
RichardL says
both of them are statesmen and statesmen have goals that go beyond their lifespan. I guess that both have seen this and are raising successors.
Compare this to Germany. I thought after Kohl it cannot get worse. Schroeder managed just that. After Schroeder I thought it cannot get worse. Merkel taught me that I was wrong again. Now I find myself thinking the same thing again: it cannot get worse than Merkel. I bet I am wrong again, unimaginable as it is.
Your country is in a great position: no Mohammedans to speak off, intact national identity, good leadership and booming economy.
jura says
Czech Republic has hits own long term imigration policy. It is aimed to Slovaks (practically viewed as Czechs), and Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians (very liitle language barrier, similar mentality). One curiosity are Vietnamese – they were gastarbeiter in communist Czechoslovakia or in eastern Germany. At the beginning of 1990s Vietnamese were expelled en masse ftom eastern Germany and Czechoslovakia gave them right to stay and work. They are known here for high appreciation of education and hardworking.
eduardo odraude says
Yes, immigration often is a good thing. The problem is when immigration includes a global totalitarian movement (Islam) that corrodes and eventually destroys freedom and democracy. Europe should not give up freedom.
Rule of thumb: Until a majority of Muslim-majority nations permit real freedom of religion and freedom of speech, Muslim immigration to non-Muslim nations should be stopped.
Guy Forester says
Jura, I think the problem is that those that lived under Soviet rule are now getting old, like me, and you can only pass on so much. The experience of actually living under despots created true patriots and statesmen.
The Visegrad countries have come a long way from the impoverished slave states of the Soviet era. A new generation of these countries need to go see what it is like in places run by clans and petty dictators to appreciate what was won by so many hard fought battles and perseverance.
Dubcek! Prague! 1968!
Hungary! Budapest! 1956!
Solidarity! Gdansk! Poland!
Linde Barrera says
To jura- Thank you for your explanation. In my humble opinion, a group must be formed this year in The Czech Republic of young men and women getting out of college and those already working who can intern with Mr. Zeman and Mr. Klaus to learn the ropes and become the next generation of Czech heroes.
jura says
Continuity is the problem. Social democrats lie in ruins, because they became neo social democrats (eucrats), conservatives are raisng a liitle. But one man political parties appeared and suceeded in Parliament elections. But those parties are simply only a part of bussiness plan for the founder(Mr. Babis, Mr. Okamura).
LeftisruiningCanada says
How old are you? 🙂
vlparker says
There is another problem I see. Zeman won, but he won by the skin of his teeth. So it appears that the Czech Republic has a significant percentage of suicidal idiots who will vote for their own destruction just like we have here in the US. Hopefully, this block of countries will hold strong and continue to defy the EU.
EU countries are destroying their own tourism industry with muslim immigration. Eastern Europe could take advantage of that by holding strong. I’ve been to Slovakia to see the villages of my great-grandparents, but I’ve never been to the other three countries. I would love to see Prague and Budapest.
Michael Copeland says
The article of the 2007 Lisbon Treaty is intended to “uphold the EU’s core values of freedom, democracy and the rule of law”.
Freedom? “Freedom” to obey EU diktats – “Europe WILL be diverse….it is its DESTINY” (Timmermans).
Democracy? No-one voted for mass muslim invasion, or was even asked.
Rule of law? Merkel trampled on the law with her unlawful open borders action.
Charades, anyone?
Tom says
We need more politicians of the calibre of Zeman who are willing to stand up and take a principled stand against the Soros minions and open borders policies enacted by weak left wing progressives.
The worm is beginning to turn in Europe and once it does there will be political blood running (metaphorically) in the streets.
Once that pendulum swings to the middle right of centre again, look out all you Islam ass kissers.
StellaSaidSo says
Well said, Tom.
Linde Barrera says
Congratulations, President Milos Zeman! Please do what your Christian conscience tells you: do not hate any Muslims but Czech out of EU as soon as possible.
John Stefan Obeda says
Yes, with God’s needed help we will love the person, but with God’s help we will fight against the evil doctrines that that person may believe in, evil doctrines and ways which are found in the Qur’an, hadiths and sira.
Berengaria says
Cheers for MILOS ZEMAN, Czech Republic has sent the “RIGHT MESSAGE” to the EU & the Atrocious UN. STOP THE MUSLIM INVASION & LEAVE OUR SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES, ALONE.
MFritz says
If Czexit becomes an option, I fully support the Czechs! THIS EU has to end.
We European people will come back together and do business etc. properly, once the corrupt globalists and their lobbyist riff raff have been driven off.
It worked (long) before the EU, it will work again!
StellaSaidSo says
Amen to that, MFritz.
The EU must end if Europe is to be free.
eduardo odraude says
European nations do not need the EU in order to have peace. All that is needed for peace is democracy and laws protecting full freedom of speech. Throughout history, democracies have never or almost never made war on one another. Virtually all wars have been waged between two dictatorships or between a democracy and a dictatorship. Dictatorship is thus the primary cause of war, and liberal democracy the primary solution. (To win major wars, of course, liberal democracies tend to become temporarily somewhat less liberal. But the point I’m making remains true nevertheless.)
Z says
Once again the Czech Republic has protected their people properly
Guy Forester says
Great News!
Now it is time for the younger generations to step up and learn to be true leaders of a free society. But remember, as hackneyed as the saying is: Freedom is not Free.
Eric jones says
Europe needs more leaders that put the interest of the countries citizens first. The EU is a globalist contraption and should dissolve. Czeit, yes. I hope the UK completes its exit out of the EU.
Eric
HugoHackenbush says
“TAKE THAT HANNS BRIX!”
LeftisruiningCanada says
😀
dumbledoresasrmy says
Mr Zeman should get some scholars together who can translate ex-Muslim Sam Solomon’s book “Al HIjra – The Islamic Doctrine of immigration” into Czech; then require *all* Parliamentarians to read it. Heck – invite Mr Solomon to *address Parliament* on the same subject (I am sure that since Mr Solomon, though raised within the dar al Islam, speaks good English, it would be easy enough to provide a suitable interpreter to make this possible), with plenty of time allowed for Q and A afterward.
And place copies of the translated book in every High School library (History section), and University library.
Rev Dr Mark Durie’s bookd “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom” and “Which God?” (which sets out the glaring differences – indeed, antitheses – between the Biblical God, on the one hand, and the Islamic ‘allah’, on the other) should also be translated into Czech, and widely circulated. “Which God?” is a good book to put in seminary libraries – both Catholic and Protestant – and parish churches, because it immunises people very effectively against Muslim dawa and ‘interfaith’ ‘Abrahamic religions’ snake-oil salesmen.
p bay says
They want to be a country, not a province of the EU. Enough muslims will form a govt there and no one wants muslim overlords there again