Try domestic route between Prague and Ostrava, LOT Airlines now offers flights up to 5 times a week. If you need to travel to Warsaw, continue on the same flight or use direct connection to Poland up to twice a week.

At the end of 2020 the first proposal for preliminary technical and economic parameters was posted on the Energy Regulatory Office (“ERO”) website (available for download here), which will be used to calculate the operating subsidies for new and modernized production facilities (the “Proposed Decree”) according to the bill of Act No. 165/2012, on promoted energy sources, currently under discussion (hereinafter the “RES Bill”).

The Antivirus Programme is considered one of the most successful and best performing support programmes that the government introduced during the pandemic. According to statistics published by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs at the end of December, the number of supported companies exceeded 65 thousand and the total amount of provided support amounted to almost CZK 25 billion. However, some employers have ascertained that they will have to refund the aid already received under the programme even though they did not abuse the programme in any way and paid all relevant payments and mandatory premiums within the statutory deadlines.

At the turn of the year, two government measures came into force to help combat the coronavirus crisis and boost household consumption. The measures consisted of a one-time payment to all old-age, disability and survivors’ pensioners and the elimination of super-gross wage and related tax adjustments. This study shows that both of these measures can have a strong impact on household consumption due to their widespread effect. According to our calculations, higher pensions should lead to a temporary increase in household consumption of almost 2%, and in the case of the tax reductions, to a sustainable increase in consumption of up to 3.4%. But given the high degree of uncertainty and the closure of the economy, the current situation might hinder consumer spending in terms of either total expenditure and/or amount spent over time.