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Czech citizens can travel freely across almost the whole of Europe without border checks as of today, as the Czech Republic, along with another eight EU newcomers, joined the Schengen area at midnight.
After the entry into NATO in 1999 and into the EU in 2004, this is another significant international event in the Czech Republic’s [...]

The Czech Republic is a net recipient from the EU contributing Kc94bn to the EU budget between 2004 and the first half of 2006 and receiving Kc112.3bn, the Local Development Ministry said at a news conference today referring to data of the Finance Ministry.
“For the time being the surplus is not very big,” Deputy Local [...]

Czech state debt rose by Kc40.2bn in Jan-Sept this year to Kc842.7bn, and from July it decreased by Kc13.4bn, the Finance Ministry has thus confirmed today its state debt data of the beginning of October.
Per capita debt tops Kc84,000. State debt increased by more than Kc111bn last year.
State debt is the debt of the Czech [...]

The Prague-Ruzyne airport has cleared a record 12 million passengers to date this year, half a million more than in the full of last year and 7.3 percent more than in the same period of last year, the airport said in a press release today.
“We expect passenger numbers to get close to 12.5 million by [...]

Czech ministers and representatives of the European Commission today signed nine operational programmes enabling the Czech Republic to draw EUR14bn (around Kc365bn) from EU funds in the years to come.
The amount makes up around half of the sum the Czech Republic can draw from EU funds in 2007-2013. The operational programmes include the Transport programme, [...]

Czech building output grew by 3.5 percent year-on-year in October after a 1.8 drop in September, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) said.
Adjusted for workdays, construction output rose by 2 percent in October. Month-on-month, seasonally adjusted building output added a real 0.9 percent.
The value of building projects permitted in October grew by 9.9 percent year-on-year to [...]

Czech November inflation was 1.1 percentage point higher than the Czech National Bank had forecast, CNB section head Tomas Holub told CTK.
Like in October, the reason were faster-than-expected food prices.
In October, inflation was 0.2 percentage points above the CNB target, and in the preceding months lower than the target.
Motor fuel prices were also higher in [...]

Prague - The Czech crown this morning broke through the Kc26.00/EUR level for the first time ever and at one point traded at Kc25.97/EUR, following the publication of November inflation data, the highest figure in the last six years, Patria Online server said.
The unit also gained to the dollar, to Kc17.72/$.
The inflation figure was much [...]

The Czech Senate almost unanimously approved an amendment to the law on the budget’s tax allocation, according to which municipalities will get additional 4.6 billion crowns from tax revenues next year.
The bill, which will be advantageous mainly for smaller towns and villages, is yet to be signed by President Vaclav Klaus into law.
Finance Minister Miroslav [...]

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