Oh yes, I know where your heart lies - you are so very close to me!
There are often two sides of a coin and I have to tell you that at least here, in CR, instead of doing something good, some people have built their careers, political or whatever, on chasing the grants from EU in a dirty way...but I don´t want to spill the poison here.
Spolí used to be part of the Biosphere reserve and the environmental protection was provided by the UNESCO. Now the borderline of the reserve has been changed and shifted and our village is outside it - why, I don´t understand fully but there was a "good reason" from two political groups that fight (still fight!) over the Trebon peat spa and needed "more space".
Now our village council fight for every suitable support but we are a very tiny village and we can´t reach the EU support, only from the Region...
Bureaucracy here is the main reason for lots of failures and CR has been criticised from EU for unefficient dealing with projects and for losing massive amounts of money. So ...what is rotten is our internal situation.