Czech government envoy for Green Deal threatens to end all funding to NGO

Government envoy for the Green Deal and MP Filip Turek (Motorists’ party) has threatened on Facebook to intervene in state subsidies sought by the environmental organization Hnutí Duha (Friends of the Earth CR) from the Ministry of the Environment.

Ministry spokesperson, Veronika Krejčí, told Czech Radio that the organization’s application had already been approved and the funds allocated.

Turek received backing from his party leader and Foreign Minister Petr Macinka, who wrote that he considers Hnutí Duha, “without much exaggeration,” to be a terrorist organization. Macinka added he would be “deeply disappointed” if the group continued to receive taxpayer funding.