Environment minister to sit on National Security Council

The environment minister, Pavel Drobil, will be among new members of the Czech National Security Council, the body designed to coordinate responses and necessary steps during periods of national crisis. The prime minister’s proposal for the council’s new membership is to be discussed by the government as the next cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Other members will include the ministers of defence and interior as well as Finance Minister Miloslav Kalousek, Health Minister Leoš Heger and Transport Minister Vít Barta. On Wednesday, the cabinet will also discuss the new membership of parliament’s security and defence committee.