The Czech Republic wants to suspend its missions abroad except in Afghanistan
(BRUXELLES2) Rigor has sounded! Czech Interior Minister Radek John announced several measures last week to save 8,3 billion crowns. On the menu, freezing the salaries of police officers and firefighters, reducing the bill paid to telecom operators for telephone tapping... and police missions abroad will also be abolished. The Ministry of the Interior is one of the four ministries most affected by the budget cuts decided by the new Czech government. For his part, his Defense colleague, Alexandr Vondra, proposed to reduce the number of Czech soldiers engaged in Kosovo. Believing that the Czech military presence in Kosovo has become "useless", he suggested leaving only about fifty people there out of the 500 currently there. On the other hand, the Czech contingent in Afghanistan (530 people) could be reinforced by a few dozen men.
(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)
Now that the Czech Republic is in the euro zone it's good to see that it pays attention to its budget 😉
On the other hand, at the beginning of the month, the Czechs still sent contingents of men to join NATO for a mission in Afghanistan…