Besides the subsidies, Čunek's departure is also due to arbitration

Liberec - The blockage of drawing European subsidies and the billion-dollar arbitration that threatens the Czech Republic due to a dispute among developers in Liberec are, according to the online newspaper Aktuálně.cz, also reasons for the departure of KDU-ČSL chairman Jiří Čunek from the government. A source close to the ODS leadership, who wished to remain unnamed, confirmed to the newspaper that the Christian Democratic chairman played a key role in the developers' case but was unable to effectively prevent the dispute. Čunek denies the connection between his departure and the arbitration.
    In the center of the hundred-thousand Liberec, two shopping centers are rising opposite each other. While the Forum shopping center, developed by the Dutch company Multi Development, will welcome its first customers in a month, the site of the future Gallery Liberec, managed by the German ECE Projektmanagement, is currently just a huge hole in the ground. Multi Development has appealed against the original zoning decision of the competing ECE, and the Czech authorities have gradually blocked the entire construction. The Czech Republic now faces arbitration in which ECE is demanding one billion crowns for the foiled investment.
    Multi Development sought participation in the building proceedings, as it attempted to halt the construction of the competing shopping gallery. However, after the Liberec Region definitively ruled that Multi Development had no right to enter the proceedings, the matter was taken over by the Ministry for Regional Development. Its officials decided otherwise. However, the appeals committee of the same ministry then sided with the Liberec Region.
    According to the server, the outgoing minister Čunek initially did not follow the committee's recommendations. The dispute had to be reviewed again by the appeals committee to reaffirm its previous conclusion. Only last December did Čunek then decide in favor of ECE. However, the German developer had already lost patience in November and initiated arbitration with the Czech Republic. According to a statement from the ministry, which is available to ČTK, neither the ministry nor the minister interfered with the builder's rights. This was done by the City Hall of Liberec, the statement says.