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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9842

18 February 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/czech republic/economy

17/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 16 February, the Czech Ministers Council gave its approval to a 73 billion Czech Crown rescue package (€2.5bn), half of which will be in tax cuts. This anti-crisis measure accounts for almost 2% of GDP and will be submitted to parliament on Wednesday. The Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, however, already acknowledged in a Slovak television interview last week, that the public deficit was already above the 3% GDP ceiling (as opposed to the 1.6%...

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