On Wednesday 8th October new Minister of Regional Development Karla Šlechtová was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka. Minister Šlechtová assumed its post after Věra Jourová who was nominated as the new Czech commissioner to the European Commision. Earlier that day Karla Šlechtová received her appointment to the post from the hands of President Miloš Zeman. Minister Šlechtová’s previous involvement both at the Ministry and at the Office of the Government was in the area of the structural fundsand in creation of programming documents for the period of 2014-2020. Aside from assuring the flow of European money to the Czech Republic her other strategic tasks are in reviving the construction sector and fight against social exclusion and in assuring money for these programs.

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