On 15 April, the EU Commissioner in charge of competition Margrethe Vestager announced that the EU executive sent Google a Statement of Objections, a formal step in the process of antitrust investigations which is, simply put, a charge sheet. The Google investigation was opened in November 2010 and,...

According to the OECD Taxing Wages 2015 report issued on April 14 the Czech Repulic has the 8th highest tax wedge among the 34 OECD member states. The average single worker in the Czech Republic experienced a tax wedge of 42,6% in 2014 (vs. 36% OECD average). Between 2009 and 2014, a single worker...

According to a survey conducted by the Ceske souvislosti server, the Government made personal changes (replacement of employees or elimination of a position) to almost all deputy ministerial positions and almost 60% of directors of sections and directors of departments positions at Ministries and ...

Eurostat published its flash estimates of several macroeconomic indicators for the EU and the eurozone last week. It confirms what analysts have been suggesting for some time now – the EU is in a very sluggish but steady economic recovery. The GDP figures slowly rise. Last week´s indicators include ...