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The Czech headline unemployment rate in November remained at the level of 5.9 percent, according to the figures released by the country’s Labour Office on Tuesday, unchanged from October. This follows a continuous decline over the previous three months. The latest figure still shows the jobless total at its lowest level since March 2009.

The draft bill on the 2016 state budget is due to go into its third and final reading in the lower house on Wednesday. While the government is confident it has the votes to push it through, opposition parties are preparing to do battle, saying that the draft bill is in violation of the law.

The Czech Republic is currently experiencing something of a boom in garlic production. Over the past five years, the area of garlic fields under cultivation has multiplied nearly ten times.

The Czech government has approved a bill on consumer loans aimed at protecting borrowers. The amendment significantly limits sanctions for late payments and is seen as a means of combatting extortionate interest rates.

The popular Czech beverage maker Kofola went public on Wednesday, December 2nd, with trading launching on the Prague Stock Exchange. Within a week’s time, the trading of Kofola shares will begin also in Warsaw. With interest rates at record lows and equity funds reporting surplus cash, investor interest on the regulated market is expected to be high.

The number of reported crimes in the Czech Republic involving the theft of metals dropped by over 50 percent between March and November compared to the same period last year. According to the Ministry for the Environment, police recorded just over 3,400 such crimes so far this year, compared with over 8,000 during the same months last year.

If the Paris climate change summit delivers on ambitions goals and targets, then the main burden will fall on energy companies to deliver on them. But is the Czech Republic’s biggest power company, ČEZ, placed to square up to that challenge?

The council at Prague City Hall has voted to ban all gaming bars in the city. More than 200 establishments with gambling machines are to be closed down, while a full ban is to be implemented in Prague 4.

Czech consumers can expect to pay a fraction less for natural gas next year while electricity prices are set to remain more or less the same in 2016, according to announcements made on Thursday by the Energy Regulatory Office.

The second-biggest car maker in the Czech Republic, Hyundai, finds itself in the spotlight after its largest dealership in the country, Hyundai-Fischer CZ, launched legal action against the auto producer’s local boss, whom it accuses of corrupt practices.