Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said April 10 that the government has no money to move the controversial pig farm in Lety, south Bohemia, that is on the site of a World War II internment camp for Roma, or Gypsies. Instead, the government would support the construction of a memorial near the farm, he told reporters. The cost of moving the farm is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of crowns. The previous government had promised to move the farm.

Minister Džamila Stehlíková said April 9 that the government will present its Roma integration policy in June. Stehlíková, who is in charge of minority issues, said the initiative will focus on problems related to housing, education and employment. Meanwhile, Roma activists announced that they plan to file a criminal complaint against Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek because of his recent inflammatory statements about the Roma. They are alleging that his comments have fomented hatred against them.

Foreign Affairs Minister Karel Schwarzenberg announced April 5 that the first round of talks about the U.S. request to station a radar base here will begin May 11. Schwarzenberg said Parliament has received all the technical details about the radar, but Communist Party Deputy Václav Exner said the government does not have sufficient information about the radar’s installation.