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In Business News this week: more gloom from the number crunchers; a silver lining from the central bank; charges stack up against local banks; EU funds spark gas storage scramble; and a bid for a scrap law for old furniture.

In Business News this week, Škoda Auto looks to Saturday working; foreign workers’ visa freeze; Prague airport privatisation problems; Czech agriculture’s new master; hiring and firing dismissal overhaul still on course; and the developing taste for non-alcoholic beer.

In Business News this week: few get on board for the Czech Airlines sale; a cloudy future for key government measures; more developments around Orco; business index gives a glimmer of hope; and Time Warner tunes into TV Nova.

In Business News this week, the Finance Ministry cuts growth hopes; good news for new homebuyers; Orco takes a plunge; the inside dealer still on the outside; Moravia Energo’s multi-billion bill; and the Fabia scores big time in Germany.

In Business News this week, more gloomy macro-economic figures and predictions of job losses; the Ministry of Finance’s menu for recovery; a powerful silver lining for ČEZ; good and bad news for the richest Czech; and proof that the economy really is in a hole.

In Business News this week, car producers rev up at the Geneva auto show; a major arms contract is finally sealed; the government’s anti-crisis programme drives on; the mobile phone market slows; but the only way is up for power giant ČEZ.

In Business News this week: an extraordinary media intervention by the national bank; Škoda Auto steps up a gear; Green Cards look less rosy; another high speed rail link is mooted; a new contender is linked to Czech Airlines’ sale; and farmland disappears fast from the map.

In Business News this week: the government presents its anti-crisis plan hot on the heels of a shares and currency meltdown; the home loans market shows deeper signs of suffering; a potential rival to ČEZ shapes up; and the energy giant seeks to change its image.

In Business News this week: the labour minister unveils plans to make it easier to sack workers; the Czech EU presidency organizes a summit on unemployment in Prague; Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek says he will not raise tax on cigarettes and alcohol; supermarket chain Billa starts to sell its customers package holidays, and the country’s oldest tour operator posts its biggest profits ever.

In this week’s business news: the Czech central bank predicts a recession; the country’s trade surplus plunged by a quarter in 2008; government unveils plans to boost the economy; Škoda car maker profits from German car subsidies; and Russia’s Aeroflot eyes Czech Airlines.