Šichtařová: Defying EU – Is It Possible?

“Compared to China, we consume 30 percent less energy and our glass has 90 percent less CO2 emissions. But manufacturers from China are able to bring glass under our production costs to Europe,” said Miroslav Zoula, director of the Czech AGC glass plant in Řetenice. The costs are driven up by taxes that even European competitors do not know. How to save a 135 -year -long production of flat glass in Teplice?

So clearly that our competitiveness goes down sharply, and not only with China, but in general we cannot be measured with Asia! We’ve been talking about this for maybe five years, an interview of what to talk. And the reasons are still the same: crazy and increasingly crazy European regulations, which disproportionately more expensive production – from emission allowances to energy, to the amount of taxation, to regulation of employment. You ask how to change it and how to save production. After all, there is a simple answer: to break down the crazy regulation and thus become competitive again! But it is easy to say, but almost impossible within the European Union. If we are part of the EU, it is basically impossible for us to get rid of these green, tax, ESG regulations. Rather, it is impossible without opposing the EU.

Automakers and parts manufacturers turned to Usulu von der Leyen. They require a re -evaluation of the goal to stop the production of cars with internal combustion engines by 2035, because they are not realistic. How serious is it when the manufacturers have already dared to speak?

The automakers are already flowing into the shoes. Until now, the decarbonization goals have been so crazy and unrealistic and at the same time still seemingly so far away that car makers still had to rely on the fact that it would “somehow change”. But now there are only 10 years left, and automakers are beginning to understand that absolute electromobility is impossible. It just can’t be technically. (I could explain to you now why it is not possible, but we would not fit in our space, because it is not a completely trivial explanation; that’s why I wrote the whole book with my co -author.) Or, at best, they fall into huge losses and become fully dependent on the subsidies provided by the states to survive at all, in the worst case they will disappear. So now they are fighting for survival.

The paradoxical thing is that they were the great multinational corporations that unleashed the hunts for ESG, including electric vehicles, because they thought they would make a lot of profits. And now the revolution has begun to eat its own children, and the corporations themselves, the creator of this monstrous ideology, suddenly found that they were turning against them. And that is just hope. When the protagonists ESG themselves begin to find out that they have unleashed themselves against themselves, they have high motivation to stop what they initiated.

In cars for cars, European manufacturers are almost entirely dependent on production from Asia. Is it true that when we go to the exclusive production of electric vehicles, will we hand over the automotive industry to China, Japan and Korea?

Yes. The world coughs on us, the world laughs at us what self -destruction we do. When we continue self -destruction, the world will continue to produce cars and we will limit our mobility, because – as I said – a full transition to electromobility and renewable sources is not possible physically.

The modern F-35 fighter, which ordered the Czech Republic in the number of 24 pieces and CZK 150 billion, defeated the French Rafale fighter in the NATO Air Force Air Force. He has been in the armies for 24 years and has undergone the first years in 1986. Did we buy badly?

I’m not a fighter expert. But it is a public secret that at a time when (if) these manned machines will be delivered to us, they will be obsolete. Despite the fact that if we need to “tune” anything on them, we cannot do it without the manufacturer’s participation. Above our airy space, we do not slowly turn at full speed. In short, these machines – if they are used today – have a smash primarily as part of a wider integration into NATO structures. But for the defenses of our country in a situation where we had to rely on ourselves hypothetically, they would be a bit useless. I can imagine much better use of this money. And I mean for the army’s purposes.

These days we receive the first ordered combat vehicles CV 90. A total of 207 out of 246 pieces are assembled by the Czech GBC company. Why didn’t we act anyway at the purchase of fighters?

We do a lot of thin years. I don’t know. Of course, all sorts of nasty explanations are offered, but I can’t say anything with certainty. They are just speculation.

Since the beginning of Fial’s government, approximately 200,000 tradesmen have decreased in the Czech Republic. Why?

That’s clear. Speaking of a decline in competitiveness, we are not just about international competitiveness, but we mean something like “inner competitiveness”, where small tradesmen and small companies are unable to compete with large corporations. If you are obliged to fill in nonsensical bureaucratic and ideological regulations and you are a small tradesman, you often have to employ one workforce, and you can no longer afford it. In addition, secondary insolvency increases. In short, the environment is set to help large and liquidate the smallest.