Czech foreign minister Jan Lipavský said he would ask EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels today to consider if the EU should offer its support to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty after it US terminated its funding for the station.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday targeting Voice of America’s parent US Agency for Global Media in his latest sweeping cuts to the federal government.
The cuts included a federal grant agreement for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, formed in the Cold War to reach the former Soviet bloc, being terminated.
RFE/RL President and CEO Stephen Capus said on Saturday that “the cancellation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s grant agreement would be a massive gift to America’s enemies.”
Lipavský brought up the issue of RFE/FL, which is based in Prague, during his arrival at the foreign affairs council in Brussels.
Photo: Jan Lipavský, Czech Minister for Foreign Affairs