The paper presents a shortened version of Finance Minister Jiri Rusnok’s addresses to the lower house of the Czech Parliament in which he sketched the main macroeconomic, political and financial assumptions of the government’s 2002 state budget proposal. As the government’s proposal was...

The paper presents a shortened version of Finance Minister Bohuslav Sobotka's addresses to the lower house of the Czech Parliament in which he sketched the main macroeconomic, political and financial assumptions of the government's 2003 state budget proposal.

Finance Minister Pavel Mertlík outlined the principles of 2001 state budget. First he analysed the macroeconomic conditions that influence the state budget ? expected inflation rate, GDP growth the rate of unemployment. Further affecting the state budget arithmetic are the exchange rate of the...