Václav Klaus, Opening lecture at the conference „Qualified Autonomy and Federalism versus Secession in the EU and its Member States“, Esterházy palace, Eisenstadt, Austria, February 26, 2014. "The split was indeed inevitable, but we – on both sides – understood very rapidly one important thing. We felt obliged not to let chaos, anarchy, dangerous spontaneous processes with their unexpected and unknown dynamics, the growing hostility among initially friendly people develop." "Our experience, however, suggests that it is administratively and even economically relatively easy to dismantle a monetary union. I am sorry the EU doesn´t want to hear it"