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India with its population of around 1.4 billion and growth rate for 2016 of just over 7.0 percent is clearly an appetising market for anyone. But it’s sheer size, reputation for bureaucratic obstacles, and the time and expense of opening markets also makes it a daunting challenge for most exporters.

Czech law students from Prague’s Charles University excelled in this year’s FDI Moot contest beating their American counterparts from Harvard and Russia’s prestigious Lomonosov University. The Czechs say improvisation helped them win.

The proposed incoming minister of energy and trade has outlined his priorities. These include energy, ‘smart’ households, dealing with the country’s industrial waste legacy, fast internet and telecom charges.

Prague’s sole European agency, an offshoot of the Galileo navigation system, has brought 1 billion crowns worth of benefits to the Czech capital during its short stay. But major questions are still circling the economic viability of the whole project.

One of the biggest and most successful recent Czech starts up is reported to be heading for a sale with an impressive price tag of at least 10 billion crowns. Some say the offer for flight search company Kiwi.com could climb as high as 15 billion crowns.

While interest rates can be expected to rise in the Czech Republic in 2018, this will be part of a gradual and long-term process of development, the governor of the Czech National Bank, Jiří Rusnok, said at a gathering of leading Czech exporters on Tuesday.

Sauna sellers are experiencing something of a boom in the Czech Republic. In addition to the large number of public saunas, the number of families that are installing one in their home is going up.

New figures show Czech wages rising across the board. And it appears that many in traditionally low earning jobs are seeing proportionately bigger wage increases.

Bohemia Sekt, the Czech producer of bubbly that should lubricate the festive season, are preparing for the big test.

Direct sales in the Czech Republic have been thriving, despite door to door sales being prohibited in some municipalities, the daily Hospodářské noviny reported. The upturn in business has been mainly driven mainly by the good economic situation in the country.