Malostransky notebook: the government and Don Corleone – offers that cannot be refused
“I will make him an offer he cannot refuse,” used to say Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. The offers and well-meaning advice now being made to the Statistics and Energy Authority by Don Petr Fiala and Don Jozef Sikel are of the same kind. Industry Minister Jozef Síkela has copied the recipe of Prime Minister Fiala, who, after the dismal figures on the Czech Republic’s energy price comparison with the EU, met with the President of the Czech Statistical Office and convinced him to use a different methodology. Now, after the announced high increase in the regulated component of the electricity price, Síkela also met repeatedly with the chairman of the Energy Regulatory Office, Stanislav Trávníček, and urged him to put the brakes on the price.
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