PRAGUE (Reuters) - The new Czech centre-right government will freeze the pay of state workers and reduce previously announced pay hikes for others as it seeks to cut the budget gap amid a spike in inflation, ministers said on Wednesday.
The government, appointed earlier this month, has pledged to cut the 2022 central government deficit below 300 billion crowns ($13.66 billion), versus 380 billion envisaged by the previous cabinet.
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