...deficit into line with European Union fiscal rules.
The vote, in the first out of three required readings, locked in a 70.8 billion crown ($3.70 billion) central government deficit target for the next year.
The reduction from this year's projected 81 billion crown shortfall would slash the overall public sector deficit to 2.95 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), just below the EU's 3 percent threshold and down from this year's 3.6 percent.
[PRAGUE/Reuters/Finance.cz]