Lipavský: Expo 2025 head failing to secure sufficient private sector funding

The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, says that the head of the Czech pavilion at Expo 2025, Ondřej Soška, has failed to generate enough money from private firms, Deník N reported on Monday. Mr. Soška won a selection procedure for the commissioner general’s post in 2022 after promising to raise CZK 200 million from the private sector but has not yet obtained half of that amount, the news site said.

Mr. Lipavský said he had repeatedly warned Mr. Soška that the funds secured above the amount approved by the Czech government were insufficient and that he needed to be more active.

The 2025 World Expo will be held in the Japanese city of Osaka from April to October next year.