Former president Vaclav Havel is the greatest euro-optimist on the
Czech political scene today while his successor Vaclav Klaus is the
most euro-sceptic; this according to a poll of public perceptions by
the STEM agency. Asked to name a pro-European politician, aside from
Havel, respondents named three high-profile Social Democrat party
members: former prime minister Stanislav Gross, the current man in the
job, Jiri Paroubek, and ex-premier Vladimir Spidla, now a European
Commissioner. Apart from Klaus, the poll found that people consider
Civic Democrat leader Mirek Topolanek and Communist party head Miroslav
Gerbenicek the most euro-sceptic Czech politicians.