The Czech government approved on Tuesday the financial framework for the development of the towns and villages of the Brdy region, the planned site of the U.S. radar base, within which they are to receive 1.25 billion crowns (about 70 million U.S. dollars).
The towns and villages will be given new infrastructure, even in the case that the U.S. does not eventually build the radar base, the Czech news agency CTK reported.
Under the final proposal of the Brdy commission, the towns and villages in the Plzen, part of the former military area, are to be granted investments worth 600 million crowns (about 33.6 million dollars), while Central Bohemian towns and villages are to receive investments worth 400 million crowns (about 22.4 million dollars).
Another 250 million crowns (about 14 million dollars) are to be invested in the local roads.
According to Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Fuksa, the Brdy commission wants to submit a detailed budget to the government by the end of January with the relevant sums and schedules of individual investments.
"There are some projects that can be implemented within a year, but there is also the reconstruction and building of the sewage system that may last two to three years," Fuksa said earlier.
Washington initiated the plan to deploy an anti-missile radar base in the Czech Republic and a missile interceptor base in Poland earlier this year.
The Czech government, headed by the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), advocates the plan, while the opposition Social Democrats and the Communists (KSCM) demand a referendum be held on the issue.
A recent opinion poll showed that most of the Czechs oppose the establishment of the base, which is to be built on the Brdy military grounds some 90 kilometers southwest of Prague.
Source: Xinhua
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