Czech Call to help the European Union in free Europe after Trump’s discounts

The Czech Republic is paid to support the European Union to preserve the Radio of Europe/RFE/RL after the Trump administration reduced funding for the global broadcaster.

Foreign Minister Jean -Leipvski said RFE/RL, based in Prague, “is one of the few reliable sources in dictatorships such as Iran, Belarus and Afghanistan.”

In Eastern Europe, the US government’s portfolio reached millions of listeners during the Cold War, which helped spread democratic values ​​while the Communist authorities tightly control the local media.

Elon Musk, who is responsible for reducing costs under Donald Trump, rejected RFE/RL as “extremists leave crazy people talking to themselves while burning $ 1 billion of US taxpayer money.”

But the president of RFE/RL and CEO of Stephen Capus said that the dismantling of the broadcaster’s agreement “would be a huge gift for the enemies of America.”

He added: “The Iranian Ayatollah, the Chinese Communist leaders, and the wearing in Moscow and Mings will celebrate the death of RFE/RL after 75 years.”

The independent committee replied that Mr. Kabous’s interest in protecting journalists (CPJ), which complained that thousands of journalists will cut American financing – and that some work in the countries under control “is in great danger.”

RFE/RL says it reaches a weekly audience of approximately 50 million people in 23 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Afghanistan and the former Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

“How to keep it partial at least.”

RFE/RL, Radio Free Asia and Voice of America (VOA) have relied for decades on USA’s funding for World Media (USAGM).

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday to reduce his funding after Musk supplied them to X, saying “closed them.”

This step contradicts the media policies of the authorities in Russia, China and Iran, who have poured financing in state broadcasters to confront the influence of Western liberalism around the world.

Most Voa employees have been placed full -time on an administrative vacation and the broadcaster’s contractors, who dominate non -English language services.