Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has announced plans to urge EU foreign ministers in Brussels to consider supporting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) following the termination of its U.S. funding.
“We have to start with the political readiness to do something, so I will ask for that today,” Lipavsky said before a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting funding for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America and RFE/RL. The move ended federal grants to RFE/RL, originally established during the Cold War to broadcast to the Soviet bloc.
On Saturday, RFE/RL President and CEO Stephen Capus said that the cancellation of REF/RL’s grant agreement would be a “massive gift to America’s enemies.”
