Miloslav Kala

The Czech Republic has adopted the so-called program financing approach. Unfortunately, it has done so in a bureaucratic and inefficient manner. But this is exactly what needs to be cleared up if we want to start getting somewhere, writes Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) vice chairman Milosalv Kala.

Businessmen are like gamblers who threaten the economy. “The competition for customers has turned into one of gaining rent from the state, if possible without doing a thing. Competition has changed into an attempt to gain a monopolistic or dominant position, if possible forever. And then never compete with anybody again,” writes Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) vice president Miloslav Kala in part four of our anti-corruption series.

According to various sources, the extent of losses resulting from corruption in the Czech Republic is estimated at between Kč 30 billion and Kč 60 billion; some even claim that it equals the entire public budgets deficit. In Part 2 of Czech Position’s anti-corruption handbook series, Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) vice-president Miloslav Kala posits a correlation between the scale of corruption and economic mismanagement.