Jiří Pehe on the Czechs' know-it-all attitude in crisis

Czech politicians from President Václav Klaus to cabinet members are behaving like useless know-it-alls in the crisis, publicist Jiří Pehe comments in the left-leaning daily Právo: "Our politicians may stress that the collapse of the euro or the EU crisis could have terrible consequences for us. At the same time, however, we Czechs refuse to actively search for solutions. But belated wiseacring helps no one in the crisis. What would be of help to the Czechs' spiritual hygiene however would be if it were written once in history books that we not only talked but also offered to help. The know-it-all complex only intensifies the syndrome of a small people that is convinced of its uniqueness on the one hand, but which regularly succumbs to larger powers on the other. Nevertheless part of our society is clearly pleased by Klaus's attitude that he 'knew it all along'."

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