Ian Willoughby

Workers at Czech carmaker Škoda Auto are set to push for double-digit pay rises. But just 10 percent would be “embarrassing”, says a union leader.

Almost five decades after recording her trademark song, the soon to retire Marta Kubišová gets a little help from some friends on a new version.

Friends recall writer Petr Šabach, whose stories became the basis for some of the best-loved Czech films of recent years and who died at the weekend.

When Hana Marritz’s father became a marked man following the Communist takeover, her family had to make an arduous escape across the Iron Curtain.

Pay growth has been faster in the public than private sector and unions are now turning to securing further increases for workers in the latter area.

As a restored version of Miloš Forman’s 1964 classic Black Peter enters cinemas, the head of the digitalisation team shares details about the process.

The Czech PM says the European Commission president’s demand for food equality across Europe is “a good signal” and “the result of our endeavours”.