Hopeful coalition environmental experts mull green import tax

In related news, environmental experts from the three Czech political parties are considering imposing an environmental import tax on goods that burden the environment. The negotiator for the Public Affairs party, Vít Bárta, told the Czech news agency ČTK his counterparts had accepted the proposal. The parties also said they were not planning to remove coal-mining limits imposed in the early 1990s on brown coal deposits in northern Bohemia.