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The Czech Republic's Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus is a 68-year-old married euroskeptic who holds the future of the EU in his hands but last year he was caught in the company of a pretty flight attendant. She was his third.
But most Czechs seemed to approve. “A mistress is generally considered a sign of a real man,” pronounced Dnes (Today), the nation’s biggest newspaper. “Czechs have just shrugged their liberal shoulders,” said Lidove Noviny, the populist daily.
Klaus is lapping up attention as statesmen plead for his signature on the Lisbon Treaty. “His narcissistic personality loves being at the centre of attention and power,” a Czech politician told The Times last week, “and Czechs have a tendency to admire him because of their own lack of self-confidence.”
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