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Many global fi lm epics were ried by CBT need not necessarily be consistent with fi lmed in the Czech Republic, for instance The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the standpoint of the Publisher. MK ČR E 6379, ISSN Wanted, or the Bond movie Casino Royale. Smaller producers aimed at European 1211-2208 „Podávání novinových zásilek povoleno or Asian co-productions will also profi t. The impact for services such as transport, Českou poštou, s. p., odštěpný závod Přeprava, č. j. hotels, or catering will also be signifi cant. According to the Audiovisual Producers’ 3468/95, ze dne 24/10/1995“ Association materials, each crown spent during fi lming will return another crown Cover photo: www.sxc.hu into related services. 3 | INTRODUCTION Questions of the Month for Petr Nečas, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Your objective and task was to in all the areas of expenditures – manda- form a pro-reform government com- tory expenditures, capital expenditures, posed of members of three right-wing operating expenditures, government parties (Věci veřejné, ODS and TOP 09). employee wages, subsidies to building What structural reforms do you con- saving schemes, contributions to politi- sider as crucial for the Czech Republic? cal parties and salaries of constitutional The fundamental structural reforms in- officials. The specific parameters of the clude primarily a pension reform and re- different cuts are contained in the Coali- form of the health service. Without these tion Treaty. principal reforms we can reduce the in- dividual budget defi cits, but this will not In a crisis, the rule for companies states guarantee their long-term sustainability. The that they can save for a while, but then reforms will ensure stable public budgets have to find new sources of revenue. for decades ahead. Do you have an idea of how to start growth in the State revenues? You have said that your target for the State revenues can be raised either by 2011 State Budget deficit is approxi- raising taxes, which the government mately CZK 135 billion (EUR 5.4 billion), coalition refuses to do, or by increasing which is 3.6% of GDP. You plan the economic growth. In this area we have Petr Nečas public budgets deficit for next year at prepared a number of measures, parti- 4.6%, which is two-tenths lower than in cularly in support of the business sector, the Convergence Programme. How do which is the only sector to create sus- you want to achieve this? tainable jobs. These measures include, Our plan provides for the gradual reduc- for example, the abolition of Road Tax on tion of budget deficits with two basic passenger cars, allowances on social pay- landmarks – by 2013, at the latest, we ments for socially endangered groups of want to attain below 3% in public budget employees, and VAT returns on unpaid deficit, and by the year 2016 we want to invoices. For details, I refer again to the achieve balanced public budgets. As to Coalition Treaty. Besides reducing unem- changes for next year, they will consist ployment and cutting the budget deficit, mainly of cuts, due to a lack of time, and a fundamental motive for our measures not of reforms that will be effective only is to increase the competitiveness of the from 2012. Next year, we are planning cuts Czech economy. Arrival of the new Czech government at its seat in Prague on 13 July 2010. Photo: Office Photocombo Photo: of the Government archives; | 4 ECONOMIC POLICY Back to Growth As in most of the EU countries, the Czech economy experienced a strong recession in 2009. GDP declined by 4.1% over the year, but economic indicators showed a turn for the better from the third quarter. In the quarter-on-quarter comparison, GDP began a continual rise of 0.5%, which continued at the beginning of 2010. The drive of the restored economic growth was the export- oriented industry, which initially benefi ted from the car scrappage incentive introduced in several EU countries. The Czech economy thus returned to the trend of growth, which will not be rapid at fi rst, but will most likely be higher in com- parison with the “old” EU countries. Of the 27 EU countries, the Czech Repub- lic has the highest Gross Domestic Prod- FAVOURABLE RESULT DUE TO uct.