Economy and Market

As part of the re-codification of private law, early next year, there will also be changes to the discipline of commercial enterprises. The new Law on commercial corporations seeks to reflect the developments at European level, based on the experience gained in foreign countries...

Unemployment Unemployment level keeps steady at around 7.0%, which is the lowest level of the last few years. Some factors helped reaching this figure, not all of them of structural nature, such as seasonal jobs. Good hope comes from pick up in industrial production...

There is the iconic banana image of the Velvet Underground, the tongue of the Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga naked and the apple of the Beatles. Twenty-five kilometres away from Prague, inside a sound-proof room for testing the quality of sound, there is a wall...

The exciting, brilliant story of Meopta Examine this precious adventure through a lense. Watch it from close up. Put the past of a country and a trademark together, by focussing through glass filters, the lenses of Meopta. Eighty years after its foundation in Přerov,...

The particular moment affecting the hospitality industry in the Czech capital: luxury facilities are searching for new owners, while low-cost chains are moving in with their “budget hotels” Crowne Plaza, Kempinski, President, and the Four Seasons are only a few of the luxury hotels...

The Czech energy company has ended up at the centre of a dispute worth millions with the Albanian government and also risks in Bulgaria. Once again the decision on the biggest project in recent years has been postponed. We will have to wait until...

In Ostrava and its surroundings, the crisis in the coal sector threatens the jobs of thousands of miners. The fear of a shocking domino effect in the coming months could bring down the Moravian-Silesian region, one already beset by serious economic and social problems...

Unemployment Thanks to new seasonal openings, and a new computational methodology, the unemployment rate has fallen to 8% or 7.4%, depending on the source: in any case, a very acceptable level. Unfortunately, salaries are not growing and in several cases are decreasing, therefore depressing...

Would it help when lawyers reflect on it? Under its judgment, the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic ruled on 25 April 2013 that Regulation No. 484/2000 Sb. issued by the Ministry of Justice, so-called “Predicative Regulation” would be cancelled. The justification for such...

“Economy is more human than you would think”, explains the young Czech scholar, also author of the bestseller Economics of Good and Evil A tall, large guy, with messy long, curly red hair, he can be spotted going round Prague on a bicycle, in...