Culture minister reported to be planning to sack National Library head

The minister of culture, Václav Jehlička, is planning to sack the head of the National Library, Vlastimil Ježek, the Czech News Agency reported. The move is believed to be connected with a dispute over a planned new national library building. Mr Ježek refused to abrogate the international competition for the new library building last year, saying such a move could lead to an arbitration dispute. A design by renowned Czech-born architect Jan Kaplický was originally chosen as the winner in the competition and was to have stood on Prague’s Letná plain, but the project lost the backing of City Hall, in a dispute over land and funds.