Czechia’s second quarter GDP growth below EU average

The Czech Republic’s GDP growth in the second quarter of 2021 was below the EU average, the Czech Statistics Agency reports. While in the EU GDP grew in the second quarter by 1.9 percent (13.2 percent year-on-year), in Czechia growth for the same period was estimated at 1 percent (8.2 percent year-on-year).

Nevertheless, while all EU member states registered year-on-year growth in the second quarter, statisticians highlighted that GDP growth is still behind pre-Covid rates.