Environment Ministry to get extra money for landscape management

Environment Minister Richard Brabec is to get an additional 250 million crowns for the environment sector in 2016 for landscape management and measures to help fight drought, the ctk news agency reports. The minister requested the extra funds in connection with the problems brought about by the extreme weather conditions this summer. Finance Minister Andrej Babiš, who approved the request in full, said that under the present circumstances, he could not guarantee meeting the set 70 billion crown deficit target for next year. Earlier in the day Babiš agreed to an extra 3.0 billion crowns for the 2016 budget of the Ministry of Interior for expenses connected to the migrant crisis.