Green Party MP hints his party could vote against US radar base

Green Party deputy chairman and MP Ondrej Liska has said that the Greens could eventually vote against a US radar base being deployed to the Czech Republic as part of a broader US missile-defence shield. He made the statement at a press conference on Friday in which he stressed that any final decision needed to follow debate within the US, the European Union and NATO. Mr Liska said that even if the Greens did not back the plan in the end, he did not think it would threaten the current ruling coalition led by the Civic Democrats. Earlier this week, British Secretary for Europe Geoff Hoon said that whether or not a radar station was built on Czech territory was entirely up to Prague and Washington.