Projections show that by 2070, the European Union will have 292 million people of working age, compared to 333 million in 2016. This trend would mean a significant decline in the workforce for the EU member states. This is one of the reasons why the European Parliament approved a revised draft of the 2009 Blue Card Directive, which should facilitate labour mobility between member states. The European Council adopted the directive on 7 October this year.

The rising prices of construction materials and energy, the increasing cost of land for new construction, a lack of crucial components to ensure continuous production and workforce shortages are all afflicting the industrial sector in the Czech Republic. One solution in regard to the availability of industrial real estate would seem to be the optimising of operations and more frequent investment by many companies into the automation of routine activities.

This autumn, the European industrial developer CTP officially opened two more buildings in Brno for young local and expatriate professionals and young families. Both buildings can accommodate more than two hundred individuals and are follow-ups to the successfully established Domeq I, which the company launched in Brno about four years ago. Due to their larger rooms, the two new buildings are designed to be more for individual residential living rather than co-living, as was the case for Domeq I.  CTP continued this residential project in response to the current high demand in the housing market that is not just seen in Brno, but the whole country

In the just-ended parliamentary term, the Czech Chamber of Deputies did not approve the bill on a digital service tax. Hence the bill would have to go through the entire legislative process again should the new government want to introduce a digital tax. However, this does not seem likely given the agreement reached on new international taxation rules at the G20 level, since it also includes a commitment by participants not to apply or introduce new digital taxes.