Articles for tag: Alena Schillerova, ANO

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State, Unions Reach Agreement On Wage Increase

Prague, Aug 31 (CTK) – The Czech cabinet and the trade unions today agreed on an increase in the wages in the public sector as of January 1, 2019, which will raise most employees’ base pay by 5 percent, and further money will raise bonuses, PM Andrej Babis (ANO) and Finance Minister Alena Schillerova (for ...

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State Budget Cuts NGO Funding By Kc586 Million: Babis

Prague, Aug 29 (CTK) – The sum allocated to non-profit organisations in the draft Czech state budget for 2019 has dropped by 586 million crowns compared to the original plan, Czech PM Andrej Babis (ANO) said today.   The cabinet is yet to debate their demands, he added.   However, the total sum for the ...

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Milos Zeman standing on podium with Tomio Okamaru at SPD rally

SPD Rejects ANO’s Kc40 Billion Deficit Draft Budget

Prague, Aug 28 (CTK) – The opposition anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement will not back the latest 2019 state budget draft with a 40-billion crown deficit announced recently by Finance Minister Alena Schillerova (for ANO), which is by 10 billion lower, it said in its statement for CTK today.   The SPD says ...

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Babis And Zeman Discuss Foreign Minister Over Lunch In Lany

Lany,Central Bohemia, Aug 27 (CTK) – Czech PM Andrej Babis (ANO) met President Milos Zeman at a regular working lunch at the presidential chateau in Lany today.   The politicians met shortly after 14:00, Zeman’s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek said on Twitter, adding a photograph on which Zeman hands Babis a box with a pipe.   ...

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Czech Finance Minister Alena Schillerova

Government Should Aim For Balanced Budget: Analysts

Prague, Aug 26 (CTK) – Analysts welcome the intention of Czech Finance Minister Alena Schillerova to reduce the planned deficit of the 2019 state budget, however, with the current economic growth, the government should be attempting a balanced budget, they said.   Analysts warned about a rise in expenditures which could deepen the budget deficit, ...

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Finance Ministers Budget Contains Kc40 billion Deficit

Prague, Aug 26 (CTK) – Finance Minister Alena Schillerova (for ANO) will submit a draft Czech state budget for 2019 with a lower deficit of 40 billion crowns instead of the planned 50 billion, she told public Czech TV in the Questions of Vaclav Moravec debate today.   The government has already approved the higher ...

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Social Democrats Support 10% Pay Raise For Public Sector Salaries

Prague, July 30 (CTK) – The Social Democrats (CSSD) will support the demand of trade unions that salaries in the public sector go up by 10 percent next year, which would cost the state about 4.5 billion crowns, CSSD leader Jan Hamacek told journalists after a meeting of his party’s leadership today.   Hamacek, who ...