Parliament approves anti-crisis package

The lower house of Parliament on Friday approved an anti-crisis package that includes a scrap incentive to boost car sales, faster tax write-offs and more generous unemployment and child benefits. The car scrap incentive would be either 30,000 or 60,000 crowns for a vehicle older than ten years depending on whether the owner acquired an ordinary car or an environmentally friendly vehicle. The bill is a compromise agreement between the two strongest parties in Parliament, the Civic and Social Democrats, and should have no problems passing through the Senate.