Municipalities in Brdy receive financial aid

Municipalities in the Brdy area south-west of Prague, the site selected for the US tracking radar, have received a financial injection from the government, the first of an estimated 1,2 billion crowns. The money is to boost the region’s infrastructure and Prime Minister Topolánek has promised to make it available whether or not the planned US military base is built there. However the inhabitants of some forty towns and villages in the vicinity remain vehemently opposed to the radar base. The locals fear not only environmental damage but also the possibility that the tracking radar would make the country a target for attacks by America's enemies. Many people claim that a radar in their vicinity would drastically lower the value of their property.