Education Ministry redrafts programme for EU funds

The Education Ministry redrafted its application for drawing money from EU funds over the weekend. The Minister of Education Dana Kuchtova of the Green Party has recently been facing calls to resign over her failure to obtain EU funds of around 60 billion crowns (30 billion US dollars) for research and educational programmes.

Chairman of the Green Party Martin Bursik admitted on Sunday that the minister may resign in the coming days. He said Ms Kuchtova would remain in the office if she convinced him that the problems preventing the use of the funds could be rectified. The European Commission is to decide on the programme by the 12th of October.