Another little gem to paint in the picture of the background processes that are being developed by the Czech Gov to enable cross-border development of the Cinovec deposit:
https://www.senat.cz/zpravodajstvi/zprava.php?id=3644
Additinal to the above highlighted section:
"Peter Tschentscher, with whom they discussed how the council works, communication towards the public and possibilities for cross-border cooperation. The delegation also met with representatives of think tanks operating in Germany, with whom they discussed the most important topics of Czech-German relations, including the new industrial policy" - (bolded text, my edit)
It conveniently happens to be that the 1 out 5 those "most important topics" of Czech Government is development of vertically integrated battery supply chain (as is currently stated by the current Gov as part of the "Economic Restart Campaign"). The cinovec deposit lays across the German/Czech border and requires a new industrial policy to allow Germany and Czech to cooperate on the mining and ore processing of the deposit.
Everything is falling into place, bit by bit.
(20min delay)