Ian Willoughby

Work is set to begin on a memorial to WWII resistance hero Josef Mašín and what are known as Czechoslovakia’s “three resistances”.

US firm Novavax is developing a vaccine against Covid-19 at a plant near Prague. The vaccine is set to go into trial production in October ahead of full production in 2021.

The European Commission vice-president for transparency and values, Věra Jourová, on whether social networks like Facebook should fact-check political speech – and more.

The Czech government is likely to extend a programme aimed at supporting companies hit by the coronavirus crisis either by two months or until the end of the year.

Just days after they were announced, the goverment has scaled back some new rules pertaining to the wearing of face masks in public. The opposition is crying foul.

In an honour for Czech RAF legend Josef František, the Hawker Hurricane plane in which he met his death near the end of the Battle of Britain has been renamed after him.

In this interview, marriage equality campaigner Adéla Horáková says her community fears the mistreatment of LGBT people seen elsewhere in the region may also come here.

On Tuesday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will lay a wreath in Plzeň – three months after Covid-19 curtailed events marking the 75th anniversary of liberation.

Movie star Anna Geislerová has recently won plaudits for her role as Václav Havel’s wife Olga in the biopic Havel. Here she discusses playing Olga Havlová and far more.

New figures show how hard the Covid-19 lockdown hit Czech tourism. In the second quarter visitors were down 83 percent nationally – and no less than 94 percent in Prague.