Emanuel Šíp

The past 30 years in the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution were undoubtedly a success. Czechia has become a normal market economy with functioning democracy and growing living standard of population, while main external objectives...

About three years ago our magazine brought an article where it was announced that, at the end of the financial crisis, experts again returned to the table the theme of high-speed trains in the Czech Republic. Now we can assess what has happened...

The Czech economy enjoyed a splendid year during 2017. The economy was dynamically growing with both strong exports and households’ demand. It reached the highest growth rate since 2015 (4.4%) but unlike that year in a natural way, without the...

The term of the former Czech government saw a gradual recovery from protracted economic crisis and a remarkable growth of GDP. The overwhelming part of the effect, however, was not attributable to the government’s activities, but to the several...

Since 1 May 2004, the Czech Republic has been member of the European Union. Our country can benefit from a large permeable market and from financial assistance that can be used to heal deep economic wounds caused by decades of Communism. The sum of...

As the Czech economy has overcome a major part of the impact of the financial crisis, expert groups begin again thinking of future. One of the themes that transpired from time to time in discussions of Czech transport professionals and even provoked...

The Czech Act No. 183/2006 Coll., on Town and Country Planning and Building Code, commonly know as the Building Act, constitutes a key legal regulation for preparation and construction of public and private investment projects.

The Bank Board of the Czech National Bank (CNB) decided to use the exchange rate as a monetary policy instrument, and therefore to commence foreign exchange interventions, in November 2013. On this basis, the Board accomplished a depreciation of the...

The end of 2015 holiday season brought about some interesting events concerning Czech transport infrastructure. While activities to utilize as much as possible from the Operation Programme Transport for 2007-2013 get to the final stage, a new space...

After many idle years, making Czechia one of the least engaged countries in Europe and beyond, public-private partnerships (PPP) seem to appear again on the Czech scene.

At the end of every year, at least some people usually take resolves for the year to come. Even if a part of the new year has already passed, it is worth while to shortly sum up what potential resolves for 2015 might be taken.

The Czech State Service Act, No. 218/2002 Coll., aimed at governing the position, service relations and remuneration of state officials had been adopted as early as 2002 but has never come to power so far.

The Czech economy has encountered a considerable decrease in public investment during recent years; only in the sphere of transport infrastructure it was about 25% between 2008 and 2013. Also private sphere considerably reduced its orders.

The House of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic gave the coalition government of the Czech Social Democratic Party, the ANO 2011 Movement and the Christian Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party a vote of confidence.

In the recent months, the return of the idea of a water corridor connecting the Danube, Odra and Elbe rivers through the area of the Czech Republic has awaken a broad interest in the Czech public.