Czech Greens agree on successor to education minister

Leading members of the Czech Green Party met in Brno on Sunday to find a successor to Education Minister Dana Kuchtova, who resigned last week. The party's leadership supported the nomination of Dusan Luzny, Ms. Kuchtova's former deputy at the Education Ministry. The leader of the Green Party, Martin Bursik stipulated, however, that further negotiations in the party leadership and deputy group will be needed before any final decision is made. Mr Bursik said the new minister has to convince the deputies and prime minister that he can deal with the problems left over by former minister Kuchtova, mainly with the botched application for the EU funds for research and educational programmes.