10 years of the German-Czech Future Fund

A party marking the tenth anniversary of the founding of the German-Czech Future Fund was celebrated yesterday in the Czech capital Prague. The fund came into being as a result of the Declaration on Mutual Relations and their Future Development signed between Berlin and Prague in 1997. Wolfgang Jung, German news agency dpa's former Prague correspondent, praises the fund in a commentary piece for Lidove Noviny as "a framework for developing an authentic cooperation. The fund has given Germany the opportunity to play a partner role at an international level. The Czech side has demonstrated that it is in a position to solve the questions and conflicts of the past without simply sweeping them under the carpet. ... The significance of the fund goes beyond this: it focuses on investments in projects aimed at helping the citizens of the two countries to improve their knowledge and understanding of each other."

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