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The Czech Republic insists on EU support to keep Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) after the Trump administration reduced funding for the global operator.
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavski said RFE/RL, based in Prague, “is one of the few credible sources in dictatorships such as Iran, Belarus and Afghanistan.”
In Eastern Europe, the outcome, funded by the US government, reached millions of listeners during the Cold War, helping to spread democratic values, while the communist authorities tightly controlled local media.
Elon Musk, responsible for reducing the cost of Donald Trump, rejected RFE/RL, as “Radical left crazy people who talk to themselves as they dumped $ 1 billion/year of US taxpayer money.”
But RFE/RL President and CEO Stephen Kapus said the enchantment of the Gra Grates Agreement “will be a huge gift for America’s enemies.”
“The Iranian Ayatol, the Chinese Communist leaders and the autocrats in Moscow and Minsk will celebrate the death of RFE/RL in 75 years,” he added.
The concern of G -N -Kapus was voiced by the Independent Journalist Protection Committee (CPJ), who complained that thousands of journalists would be affected by a reduction in US funding – and that some censored countries are already “in serious danger”.
RFE/RL says it reaches a weekly audience of nearly 50 million people in 23 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Afghanistan and a former council in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
The Czech Republic of the Czech Republic said he would discuss with colleagues from EU external officials, “how at least partially maintain their broadcast.”
RFE/RL, Radio Free Asia and Voice of America (VOA) have been relying on funding from the US Global Media Agency (Usagm) for decades.
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday to reduce his funding after Musk despised them on X, saying he “close them”.
This move contrasts with the media policies of the authorities in Russia, China and Iran, who have poured funding in their state television operators to oppose the impact of Western liberalism around the world.
The majority of the full-time VOA employees have been released on administrative leave and the contractors of the television operator who dominate the non-English language have been released, AFP News Agency reports.
