Overview
- Czech deputies, who passed a resolution Thursday, urged organizers to cancel the 76th Sudetendeutscher Tag.
- The motion carries no legal force but passed 73–0 with four abstentions after much of the opposition boycotted the vote.
- Organizers said the gathering will go ahead in Brno on May 22–25, marking the first time the event takes place in the Czech Republic.
- Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, under pressure from coalition partners, shifted from neutrality and called holding the meeting in Czech territory a bad idea.
- The dispute sits on the legacy of the postwar expulsion of about three million ethnic Germans, even as the Landsmannschaft dropped restitution claims in 2015.