Constitutional Court rejects anti-motorway appeal in Moravia

The Czech Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal by the environmental group Nebojsa to prevent the construction of a motorway that runs between Pohořelice and Mikulov in southern Moravia. The road, was approved by the Environment Ministry back in 2005, and will take the existing R52 motorway from Brno all the way to the Austrian border. The latest ruling follows on from other court rulings by the Prague City Court and the Supreme Administrative Court, which also rejected the motion to prevent the construction of the motorway. Despite the ruling, the final route of the motorway has yet to be finalized, but environmentalists have claimed that certain proposed routes will damage sensitive ecosystems in the Pálava region.