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Air traffic over the Czech Republic, which is one of the densest in Europe, has dropped for the first time in a decade, the Czech news Agency reported on Friday. The number of take-offs, landings and flyovers in 2018 dropped by 0.6 percent on the previous year to 906, 666 airplanes.

Over 20 percent of Czech employees changed their job over the past six months, and more than a fifth are considering finding new employment or are actively searching for it, according to a global survey Workmonitor carried out by the recruitment agency Randstad. The survey also suggests that 65 percent of Czech employees are happy with their current employer.

Since June 2016, when the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, the number of British nationals living and working in the Czech Republic has been steadily growing. According to data released by the Czech Labour Office and the Ministry of Interior, the number of British employees in the Czech Republic has risen by more than a third. There has also been a 55 percent increase in the number of British nationals who filed for permanent residence in this country.

Diplomats from North Korea planned to smuggle military materials and drones from the Czech Republic via Africa and China to Pyongyang, Deník N reported on Monday.

Prague City Council has approved a proposal to join other big European cities in calling on the EU executive arm to better and more uniformly regulate short-term accommodation platforms targeting tourists, such as Airbnb.

The lower house of parliament has approved a new legislation amendment, which would make it easier for district authorities to remove aging car wrecks abandoned in the streets of Czech towns and cities.

The Czech Republic’s minister of finance, Alena Schillerová, says she does not fear retaliation from the United States over the Prague government’s planned digital tax, which is aimed at boosting the state coffers by taxing advertising by global internet giants such as Google and Facebook.

Over 80 percent of Czech companies with ten or more employees provide their staff with mobile phones, tablets or laptops with access to the internet, according to a new survey carried out by the Statistical Office of the European Communities, the Eurostat.

The Czech economy is increasingly dependent on foreign labour. According to figures released by the Czech Statistics Office foreign workers made up 13 percent of the labour force last year. In 2010 it was just 6 percent. In the course of the past decade their number has more than doubled.

Some 22 million tourists visited the Czech Republic last year, a slight rise in a long-term growth trend, according to preliminary data compiled by the state agency CzechTourism. While foreign visitors are welcome, simply increasing their number each year is no longer the main goal.