In connection with the appointment of Jiri Rusnok as the new finance minister on Friday, Prime Minister Milos Zeman spoke in favor of speeding up privatization. The new finance minister also called for accelerated privatization, but said that he first wants to analyze what has gone wrong with some privatization cases. Theses vague comments are unlikely to help equities currently facing privatization, though.
(Ondřej Daťka)