Former Czech MEP Libor Rouček to receive Charles IV Prize

Former MEP and Vice-Chairman of the Social Democrat’s Libor Rouček will receive the Charles IV Prize at the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Regensburg this May, the Czech News Agency reports citing the German weekly Sudetendeutsche Zeitung. The prize will also be handed over to German politician Christian Schmidt. It is the first time that the award is being handed over to both a Czech and a German in the same year.

Mr Rouček is a regular visitor at the annual Landsmanschaft meetings of the German community that once lived in the Sudetenland region of Czechia.