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The bill introduces certification of startups and lets investors deduct a cash investment from their tax base, up to five million koruna a year. Certification is to be run by the emerging CzechBusiness agency, with the industry ministry as the appeal and oversight body. Conditions: the company at most eight years old, ten for deep tech, annual net turnover up to 250 million, not a shell subsidiary of an established firm and not traded on a regulated market.

The share of six-year-olds with a deferred start dropped from 24.1 % in September 2021 to 17.7 % in September 2025; last year deferral applied to just under 21 thousand children. Nurseries meanwhile hold fewer than 350 thousand children for the first time since 2012/13, while their teacher numbers grew by 21 % over ten years. Secondary schools, by contrast, had almost 515 thousand pupils last year, the most since 2011/12.