On 20 February 2026, representatives of the Czech Government presented the Economic Strategy Czech Republic: A Country for the Future 2.0 (“Strategy”) at the Ministry of Industry and Trade („MPO“). The aim of the Strategy is for public funds to stimulate as much private investment as possible and contribute to long-term prosperity. The Strategy assumes that economic growth will be driven by Czech companies. The state’s task will be to create stable conditions for them, remove unnecessary obstacles and ensure competitive energy prices. (“Strategy”). The Strategy is available at this link.

• Education and labor market: Improve the quality of the Czech education system and its connection with the business sector, simplify the admission of qualified foreign workers to the Czech labor market, and strengthen retraining.
• Innovation: Support research linked to practice by increasing public and private investment in R&D&I, improve the research evaluation system with regard to the type of research organization, and focus specifically on digitalization and artificial intelligence through government mandates.
• Investment: Switch from a system of direct subsidies to a system of indirect incentives, based on tax breaks and depreciation, especially for companies that invest in research and innovation, increase added value, and reinvest their profits in the Czech Republic.
• Energy: Ensure fair electricity prices that will be in line with those of neighboring countries and will not reduce the competitiveness of Czech industry, while maintaining energy self-sufficiency through investments in new energy sources.
• Transport: Complete the backbone highway and railway network, develop waterways with neighboring countries.
• Capital environment: Create incentive tools to activate domestic capital and improve the functioning of the capital market.

Business environment: Reduce bureaucracy, digitize the state, ensure tax stability, and simplify the regulatory environment.

In order to ensure the consistent implementation of all 160 measures in the Strategy, a special Delivery team was created at the MPO. This executive body coordinates the implementation across all departments, the control of schedule fulfillment and methodically leads the managers of individual tasks. “Thanks to the Delivery team, we are sure that he will not just stick to his promises, but that every measure will be completed within clear deadlines,” Minister Karel Havlíček said.