Ian Willoughby

For three decades, Glen Emery, a pioneering bar and club owner in the "Wild East" days of the early 1990s, has been one of the best-known foreigners in Prague.

Clown Doctors recently marked 20 years of visiting Czech hospitals. Over that period the organisation says it has spent nearly three million hours cheering up patients.

Fewer new offices have been built in the Czech Republic in 2021 than in the previous five years, with Covid and uncertainty regarding the future causing developers to wait.

A new LGBT+ community centre has just opened on Železná St. in central Prague. The centre, which is open year-round, is run by Prague Pride.

Cash-strapped pubs and restaurants have put off renovation projects indefinitely. Now, however, some of the country’s top breweries are helping hostelries fund facelifts.

The Czech Republic could in future play a role in NATO’s Rapid Response Force. That is if the country’s new defence minister has her way.

A decree on compulsory vaccinations will be amended before it takes effect, while the new health minister says he prefers appealing to the public over state directives.

Jan Urban was close to Václav Havel, who died 10 years ago on Saturday, before and during the Velvet Revolution and has many vivid memories of that period.

An independent group of experts believe Omicron is spreading by community transmission in the Czech Republic – and may have already infected hundreds.

While Czech inflation was at 3.4 percent in July, experts say it will reach at least 7 percent at the start of 2022. What is the reason for this? And how bad can it get?