Ian Willoughby

Companies in the Czech Republic are relatively cool on purchasing environmentally friendly cars, suggests a new survey cited by the Czech News Agency.

The super gross wage is to be abolished, with most employees set to pay 15 percent income tax from 2021. A study says this will be of virtually no benefit to the worst off.

Czech sculptor Krištof Kintera, known for thought-provoking, witty works that frequently have a kinetic energy, gets his biggest ever UK exhibition this week.

Jiří Burian enjoyed success as an indie musician. But he has found considerably more as Kapitán Demo, when he dons an inflatable suit to become a larger than life rapper.

A street in the UK town of Ipswich has been officially named Ivan Blatný Close in honour of the great Czech poet, who spent many years in local mental institutions.

Czechs come below the European average when it comes to frequency of online purchases, a continent-wide survey suggests.

Inflation in the Czech Republic remains high and the rate for 2020 may well be the highest recorded since 2008, with analysts saying it could be above 3 percent.

Bohdan Sláma’s film Shadow Country opens a thorny subject in the country’s modern history – massacres of ethnic Germans at the end of WWII.

Following a startling rise in the number of new Covid cases Czechs will now be required to wear face masks inside buildings throughout the country.

The great Czech director Jiří Menzel, known for the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains and other much loved titles, has died at the age of 82.