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New government to reduce number of civil servants.
(From Czech News Agency)
PRAGUE, Aug 1 (CTK) - The new government is planning annually to reduce the number of civil service employees by two percent and the operational costs by five percent, Milan Simonovsky (Christian Democrat, KDU-CSL) said on Czech Television's Questions of Vaclav Moravec discussion programme today.
Simonovsky is expected to become transport minister and deputy premier in Prime Minister Stanislav Gross's government.
At the beginning of the talks on the formation of the new cabinet, Gross promised to try and reduce the number of ministries. However, he has finally formed a cabinet which will have 18 ministers, one more than the outgoing government of Vladimir Spidla.
Simonovsky said today that certain offices and ministries could still cease to exist either in the course of this election term or at its close. He said that the Information Technologies (IT) Ministry could, for instance, again merge with the Transport Ministry at the end of the election term, and the Local Development Ministry could be closed as its tasks are being more and more taken over by the regions.
The coalition politicians will be drafting the new government's policy statement in the next three weeks in which the promises from the coalition agreement should be turned into concrete steps.
According to Simonovsky, housing loans for newly-wed couples will also be discussed. Gross told the daily Mlada fronta Dnes that their amount should be about 200,000 crowns.
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