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Czech Railways has launched its own real estate website which should help the firm sell property the state-owned company no longer needs. On offer will be land, family homes, and even former trackside stations, which may be of interest to train lovers and not just. The attraction must be high: online visitors for at least part of Thursday were not able to get through, after the website was down.

The Czech Republic continues to have the highest beer consumption per head in the world. However, the domestic market has stagnated and only an increase in exports prevented Czech breweries from recording a fall in total production in 2014, according to figures just released by the Czech Brewing and Malting Association.

Ostrava is the first city in the Czech Republic to have a regular rail connection to an international airport. The first train arrived at the international Leoš Janáček Airport in Mošnov at 4:30 A.M. on Monday.

A dispute has broken out after a deputy minister of finance, Martin Pros, called on the Czech National Bank to investigate possible manipulation of an important reference rate in domestic banking. The central bank has dismissed the suggestion, while Finance Minister Andrej Babiš has criticised the official’s move.

The Czech Republic has ranked 11th in a list of most attractive countries for retailers in Europe, according to a survey by CBRE, a company focusing on services in commercial real estate. World-wide, the country ranked 17th.

President Miloš Zeman and Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka have stressed the need for the Czech Republic to push ahead with plans for the adoption of the euro. At their meeting on Wednesday they said it was time for the country to adopt a time-frame and proceed in meeting the set convergence criteria. However, Finance Minister Andrej Babiš and central bank governor Miroslav Singer oppose the initiative arguing that in view of the eurozone’s problems the question of euro adoption is premature.

So called biofuels form a small part of ANO leader and finance minister Andrej Babiš’ business empire. But it’s a sector that is heavily under scrutiny as government agreed proposals to extend fuel support come before the lower house of parliament.

A new section of Prague metro’s A-line opened to the public on Monday with champagne, a buffet and a concert by the Tap Tap Orchestra. The four new stations –Bořislavka, Nádraží Veleslavín, Petřiny and Motol – have extended the A-line (the oldest line of the metro) from Dejvice to Motol, the site of the biggest hospital in Prague. The new stretch, which cost approximately 20 billion crowns, will also service passengers heading for Prague’s Václav Havel International Airport.

A report on the Czech Republic’s future demand and sources of coal looks like it could open the way for a deal on the thorny issue of whether current coal mining limits should be relaxed. Abandoning the limits at the Bílina mine is recommended while the case for the same at ČSA is undermined.

Figures from the national statistics office paint a pretty clear picture of foreign ownership of the Czech corporate sector. And while the benefits in terms of higher productivity are clear, the outflow of dividend payments is also spelled out.