The Czech parliament's lower house called on the government on 17 December to ignore EU rules on labelling goods from Israeli settlements, joining Hungary in breaking ranks over the divisive regulations. The Czech Assembly said new EU guidelines which require the labelling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank were "motivated by a political positioning versus the State of Israel", Reuters reported... 

At its session on 14 December, the Government passed the Plan of legislative works for 2016, a summary of implementation works for 2016 and a plan of implementation works for 2016 and following years. Plan of non-legislative works for the first half and the second half of 2016.

The UN's 2015 Human Development Index looks at gender inequality, maternal mortality ratio, adolescent birth rate, share of seats in parliament, population with at least some secondary education. and labour force participation rate, among others. The Czech Republic ended up 28th in global ranking, with average annual growth rate 0.4% in 2010-2015 and international student mobility reaching 6.5% of total tertiary enrolment in 2013... 

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