Interior Ministry proposing more aid to Macedonia

The Czech Interior Ministry has proposed stepping up financial aid to Macedonia to help the country deal with the migrant crisis. According to the daily Pravo, the Czech Republic should donate 27 million crowns to cover the cost of new lorries, Czech-made Tatras, for Macedonian border patrol. The Czech Republic has repeatedly sent police officers to help patrol the country’s borders and earlier donated 20 million crowns for Macedonia to buy 25 Skoda Yetti monitoring cars. The Czech government sent aid worth 57.5 million crowns to Macedonia within the Interior Ministry's foreign aid program in the past two years. Apart from Macedonia, Czech aid has also gone to Serbia and Greece.