The Ne Zakladnam (No Bases Initiative) campaign in the Czech Republic is in the midst of campaigning against the US missile defence radar site planned by the US in their country. And with considerable success. This March, the Czech government who had already agreed to the new base withdrew the proposal from voting in the Czech parliament, realising that they were likely to lose the vote. A few days later the government fell. A large majority of Czech citizens, mayors and a growing number of politicians is opposed to the planned radar site. We have asked Jana Glivicka and her colleagues of the Ne Zakladnam campaign to share with us their experiences and the next stages in their campaign. This is their blog.
More than two thirds of Czechs, or 68 percent, are opposed to the stationing of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil ... according to a CVVM poll. (...) Two thirds of the polled citizens, or 70 percent, said people should decide about the radar base in a referendum.
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Czech Press Agency (Česká tisková kancelář, ČTK) is the official main Czech press agency, whose reports are usually reproduced by the majority of Czech newspapers and news servers. Some of the CTK's reports are released in English as well.
CVVM is the abbreviation of "the Public Opinion Research Centre" that is a scholarly workplace under the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (SOÚ AV ČR).