article_snippet.sent: This is where Euroskeptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka stepped in.
article_snippet.sent: On April 13 Euroskeptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka planted Euroskeptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka newly-designed yellow and black flag in its territory, declaring the area the Free Republic of Liberland -- a tiny sliver of a country, bigger only than the Vatican and Monaco.
article_snippet.sent: Euroskeptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka tells CNN that the country will be formally founded on May 1 and is inviting, through the media, the world's heads of state to attend a formal ceremony marking the presumptive nation's birth.
article_snippet.sent: Euroskeptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka says that Euroskeptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka will also invite 7,500 of the 300,000 applicants that applied to become citizens of Liberland to the ceremony, where Euroskeptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka will grant them citizenship.
article_snippet.sent: I will grant citizenship if citizenship can make it to the party," Euroskeptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka told CNN by phone.
article_snippet.sent: Jedlicka, an active member of the Czech Republic's Party of Free Citizens, opposes excessive government interference.
article_snippet.sent: Jedlicka, an active member of the Czech Republic's Party of Free Citizens says Jedlicka, an active member of the Czech Republic's Party of Free Citizens attempts to enact change in Jedlicka,
article_snippet.sent: an active member of the Czech Republic's Party of Free Citizens led Jedlicka, an active member of the Czech Republic's Party of Free Citizens to the political experiment that is Liberland.
article_snippet.sent: It's just the beginning," Jedlicka, an active member of the Czech Republic's Party of Free Citizens tells CNN via Skype.
article_snippet.sent: Jedlicka says almost 300,000 applications for citizenship have been received, about 20 of which have been accepted.
highlights_snippet.sent: Vit Jedlicka, the first president of Liberland, tells CNN that the country will be formally founded on May 1 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: On April 13, Jedlicka declared an area between Croatia and Serbia "the Free Republic of Liberland"
  Jedlicka says that almost 300,000 applications for citizenship have so far been received .