Billions to be invested in Czech radar base area

In related news some 1.2 billion crowns (62 million US dollars) may be invested in the infrastructure of the Czech Brdy area, the site planned for the US radar base. Ivan Fuksa, deputy finance minister and chairman of the government commission for the development of Brdy made the statement on Thursday. According to Mr Fuksa, the Finance Ministry has allotted 200-250 million crowns towards the project and the rest may be financed from European funds and subsidies of individual ministries. The government commission widened its list of towns and villages that are to be covered by the projects to more than twenty. All are situated within a 10-kilometre radius of the planned site. The project involves the development of infrastructure and transport accessibility of the region around the military zone.