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The dust has yet to settle in Europe following the election of Donald Trump as the next US president. Two EU member states boycotted emergency EU talks on how to approach the US president-elect over the weekend. The Czech Republic, which attended the summit, stressed the need to establish communication with the new US administration as soon as possible.

Former Czechoslovak diplomat Vladimír Vochoč, who helped hundreds of Jews escape from Vichy, France during the Holocaust, has been recognised as “Righteous among the Nations”, the highest Israeli tribute to non-Jews who saved the lives of Jews during the Second World War. Mr Vochoč is the 116th Czech to receive the tribute, sponsored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.

The country’s president has agreed with planned changes in the Sobotka government: on Sunday the prime minister presented him with the names of two ministers who will depart the cabinet by the end of November and the names of their successors. Due to depart are the minister for human rights, Jiří Dienstbier and Health Minister Svatopluk Němeček.

November 11th, or St. Martin’s Day, has always been associated with the first snow reflected in the popular saying “St. Martin arrives on a white horse”. In recent years the day has come to be known for something else altogether: young wine from the year’s harvest goes on sale in shops and at open air markets around the country to light up the autumn gloom with some summer sun.

The Czech women’s tennis team are looking to continue a winning run in the prestigious Fed Cup. Last year, the team clinched their fourth title in five years in front of home fans; this weekend, they hope to continue their streak by defeating the French squad in Strasbourg.

The Czech Republic has not covered itself in glory in the past for its use and supervision of European funds. Programmes worth hundreds of millions of crowns were stopped in their tracks by Brussels following fraud fears and flawed supervision. Now though there are signs that the worst problems have been addressed.

A documentary screened on Czech Television earlier this week included unprecedented candid interviews with members of Prague’s criminal underground. But while it focuses on the notorious Berdych gang, Helena’s Law also explores the unlikely friendship that developed between the group’s leader and the policewoman who put them in jail.

Czech leaders have congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election, saying they are looking forward to continued cooperation between Prague and Washington. But how does the Czech foreign policy community view Mr. Trump’s suggestion on the campaign trail that the US might not necessarily honour NATO’s key Article 5 and come to the defence of another member if it were attacked? I put that question to Petr Kratochvíl, head of Prague’s Institute of International Relations.

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections, in which the Republican nominee defeated Hillary Clinton, has stunned political leaders all around the world. In the Czech Republic, as elsewhere, politicians have mostly reacted with uncertainty about what his victory will mean for the international community, but they also highlighted the fact that the democratic process was respected.

Czech Culture Minister Daniel Herman has indicated significant progress made in negotiations aimed at removing a pig farm from the site of a former Romany concentration camp. The presence of the farm at Lety, south Bohemia, has plagued several administrations and elicited sharp criticism from the European Commission.