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In this week’s Business News: sharp hike in VAT floated; electricity bills seen rising by as much as 17 percent; Škoda Auto outlines ‘green’ plans; first half beer demand dips; and betting company announces stock exchange debut.

In this week’s Business News: confidence slips for second month in row; retail rental prices flat or declining; Tesco to temp internet shoppers in Prague; PSE gets international upgrade; and Škoda Auto unveils 10 year production plan.

In this week’s Business News: Škoda Auto to remain in luxury range; government turns off funding for solar power; central bank fines major high street bank for misleading customers; steelmakers see slow recovery; and work time increases for employees.

In this week’s Business News: Czech economic growth on steady course; ministries scramble against solar power impact; telecoms giant under shadow of competition office suspicion; landlords look to double rents; and beer “museum” seeks to showcase small brewers.

In this week’s business news: Google seeks to seduce Czech searchers; Czech company seeks expansion in tractor’s home town; central bank sees rising number of problem loans; institutions put spotlight on financial illiteracy; and Prague scores well as business location.

In the week’s Business News: the only way is up for interest rates; ministry retreats from promise to ease burden of health and insurance payments; revolutionary media concept comes a cropper; coal and coke giant turns around fortunes; and hole in finances threatens tunnel builder.

In Business News this week: end of the road for many Czech truckers; Tatra pins hopes on facelifts; Prague pushes for changes in EU deficit rules; Finance Ministry retreats from tax perk attack; and a Czech cheese provokes French farmers.

In this week’s Business News: rating agency boosts credit risk outlook; top end tourism outperforms in second quarter; lower grain harvest predicted; ČEZ faces Slovak nuclear headache; and North Korea offers innovative cure for debt problem.

In Business News this week: The Czech National Bank raises its estimate of Czech economic growth in 2010, the central bank leaves interest rates unchanged and amidst planned lay-offs in the public sector, Škoda Auto makes the single biggest recruitment of employees since the beginning of the crisis.

In this week’s Business News: a big win for Budweiser - the Czech one, that is; the new labour minister wants to toughen up on non-EU workers; the state forestry company sees big profits for the first half of 2010; ČEZ finally wants done with its Chvaletice power plant; and the antimonopoly office owes interest to Shell for imposing illegitimate fines.