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Competitiveness: Roaming charges ban. What are the pluses? What will follow?
At the end of October 2015, the European Parliament greenlighted the Single Telecoms Market regulation. The originally over-ambitious plan was reduced to regulation of roaming and net neutrality. Several authorities, including the European Commission, still need to issue implementing acts that wou...
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Google+OECD: Health at a Glance 2015: CR good at access to care, needs to improve public health, prevention programmes
OECD's Health at a Glance 2015 report, published on 4 November, shows that overall health expenditure continues to grow slowly in many OECD countries in line with GDP growth...Read the press release. The report says that the Czech Republic spends much less on health and is achieving good results ...
Good Governance: TOL.org: Propaganda wars in Czech schools
A project designed (by the People in Need NGO) to make high school students familiar with how Russian propaganda works is being tried in a several Czech schools. Students also learn more about the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the impact of pro-Russian media in th...
Politics: CTK: Czech Deputy ForMin talks to Syrian ForMin in Damascus. Potential peace treaty could be signed in Prague (updated)
"The Czech Republic participates in building balance of forces in Syria that would make it possible to find a political solution [to the situation in the country] and end violence and the driving of Syrian inhabitants from the country," Irena Valentova, spokeswoman for the Czech ministry, told CTK...
Competitiveness: Brno-Munich flight launched. Investors, scientists are welcome.
New flight connecting southern Moravia with Bavaria and other destinations in Europe and overseas was launched on 16 November 2015. We asked director of Brno airport Tomáš Plaček, regional governor of the South Moravian region Michal Hašek and mayor of the City of Brno Petr Vokřál to comment on pote...
Strategic Directions for Czech Economic Policy
- Transition to High-Tech Manufacturing and Exports
- The City Campus as Idea Factory
- Government Programs and Processes That Drive Innovation
- Government as a Competitive Advantage, including Digitization
Advocacy Priorities for 2023
Technology, People, Infrastructure
Actions Recommended in Areas:
1. Establishing Policy Objectives for Research.
2. Research Investment and Cooperation. Big Bets (Key Technology Projects).
3. Establishing Databases for Tracking Public Policy Outcomes.
4. Public Procurement as an Innovation Tool.
5. Immigration of STEM Talents.
6. Digitization of Immigration.
7. Adult Reskilling and Upskilling.
8. Digitization of Land Use.
9. Infrastructure Development, including Technology Parks.
Read the documents in English and Czech.
Policy pipeline
In Policy Pipeline policy developments in the Czech Republic and abroad are monitored to bring better understanding of current topics and trends.
