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MagazineCzech Republic needs qualified foreign workers
As you may already have heard on Radio Prague, the Czech Republic needs an
influx of qualified foreign workers. A country with an aging population
and a declining birth rate needs new blood and the government is taking
steps to smooth the way. In 2004 the Czech Republic will join the European
Union but as one of ten newcomers it is unlikely to attract many work
candidates from the well-to-do EU states. On the other hand, as a new EU
member it will be much more attractive to qualified workers from the East.
Rather than letting that process take its natural course, the Czech
government has launched a project which should enable it to give
preference treatment to those candidates who would best meet the country's
needs: ie. people with a secondary school or university education,
preferably couples with children and -most important of all people who
would be willing to settle in this country permanently. A working
knowledge of Czech is considered a bonus though not a condition. In the
first phase of the project the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry has
invited candidates from three countries - Bulgaria, Croatia and Kazachstan
to file their applications. Michal Meduna is head of the Labour Ministry's
Department for Migration :
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Current AffairsCzech Republic needs qualified foreign workers
The Labour and Social Affairs Ministry has launched a project aimed at
attracting foreign workers to the Czech Republic on a permanent basis.
Foreigners who wish to settle here with their families should - in theory
- find it easier to do so. A country with an aging population and a
declining birth rate needs new blood - and the government is taking steps
to ease the way.
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Current AffairsCzech government plans to lure skilled workers from the East
The Czech Cabinet is launching a long term project which should address the
negative demographic trend in the Czech Republic - an aging population and
a low birth rate. According to statistics, the Czech Republic, whose
current population is just over ten million, will lack a total of 420,000
skilled labourers in twenty years' time.
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The Czech government plans to top up direct subsidies its farmers will get
from the European Union. Year-on-year CPI grows for first time this year.
Czech industrial output slowed beyond analysts' expectations in May to its
weakest pace in nine months. Unemployment increases to 9.5 percent. GDP
calculation methodology is to be revised. Government approves new
bookkeeping regulations. Telecoms company Ceske Radiokomunikace will sell
its 40-percent stake in phone operator Contactel for a symbolic one crown.
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Press ReviewPress Review
All of today's papers unanimously lead with yesterday's vote of the lower house approving a hike in the value-added tax from five to twenty-two
percent as of January next year. MLADA FRONTA DNES reports that this move
will increase monthly expenses for every Czech family by several hundred
crowns. The rise in VAT will increase the prices of certain services, such
as using both mobiles phones and land lines, or the services of lawyers,
tax consultants and real-estate agencies.
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Current AffairsOstrava braced for huge demonstration as economic decline continues
The city of Ostrava - capital of the country's northeast Moravia-Silesia
region - was bracing itself for a huge demonstration on Thursday, as union
members arrived to protest at crippling unemployment and continuing
economic decline. The region - once known as the steel heart of
Czechoslovakia - employed tens of thousands of people in heavy industry
before 1989. Today, the industrial giants are on their knees, and the
people of Ostrava say they've been left on the scrapheap. The figures seem
to back that up: more than 100,000 people are now out of work, in a region
of 1.2 million. Petr Vanek is the head of the governor's office of the
Moravia-Silesia region.
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A government's proposed fiscal reform - too radical or too mild? The
unemployment rate drops below 10 percent for the first time this year. The
Czech industry records the quickest output growth in six months. The
Plzensky Prazdroj brewery is to double the production of its famous
premium brand Pilsner Urquell.
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Current AffairsCzech unemployment rate falls below 10 per cent
The Czech unemployment rate has fallen below ten per cent for the first
time this year, but analysts predict that such good news is unlikely to
continue. In the coming months unemployment is expected to rise again, and
the huge difference between the jobless rates in the more and less
prosperous parts of the Czech Republic remains a problem.
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In this weeks economics report: Czech foreign trade deficit increases.
Czech Republic likely to cut corporate income tax, increase sin taxes.
National Property Fund dismisses one-third of staff ahead planned closure
in 2006. Selection of adviser for Unipetrol sale commenced. Tractor
producer Zetor back in black. And many more.
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