President Václav Klaus has sent his ideas on the environment and climate change to the U.S. House of Representatives, spokesman Petr Hájek told the Czech News Agency March 20. Klaus was invited to contribute to a March 21 hearing in U.S. Congress on the topic. In recent interviews, Klaus has said humans have no discernible impact on the environment and that global warming is a myth.

The Czech Republic needs to improve its track record on treatment of its Romany citizens, a report from the United Nations has said. The March 15 paper by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination criticizes the relocation of Romany families in Moravia, the “racial segregation” of children in special schools, and the lack of compensation for Romany women who underwent forced sterilization. Czechs need an anti-discrimination law as soon as possible, the report said.

Police President Vladislav Husák may not receive the lustration certificate he needs to keep his job because of his girlfriend’s secret-police past, daily Lidové noviny wrote March 20. Jitka Mitisková worked for the communist secret police (StB), the paper said. Husák is also currently being investigated for allegations that he tipped off Social Democratic (ČSSD) politicians involved in a biofuel scandal last spring.