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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.

A strict new foreigners’ law went into effect in August of this year despite protests from human rights organizations, NGOs working with migrants and the Czech Chamber of Commerce who all argue that it is extremely unfriendly to foreigners from non-EU member states. Now a Czech senator has decided to challenge the law in the Constitutional Court on the argument that it violates the country’s international commitments as well as its own constitution.

Czech video-blogger Karel Kovář was one of three young Europeans selected to hold a live interview with EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday.

The Czech Union of Private Practitioners is ringing alarm bells. According to their data, the Czech Republic will lack around 800 medical specialists and general practitioners by the year 2020. The union says a deepening divide between salaries in hospitals and outpatient care is largely to blame.

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.

An international team of scientists including Czech biologist Milan Řezáč of the Crop Research Institute has just published surprising findings about the ground spider in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

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”.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday paid his first official visit to the Czech Republic since taking office.

Plans to revamp Prague’s Wenceslas Square have received final approval after 12 years of debate.

The Czech Republic is resisting mounting pressure for it to take in more migrants in line with the EU’s redistribution mechanism. In a letter to the EU commissioner for migrants Dimitris Avramopulos, Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said the country was pulling its weight in other ways.