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The Club for Old Prague and neighbours at Hradčany in Prague have filed a complaint with the zoning commission against the refurbishment of a historical building to become the Václav Havel Library. The contested modifications to the 16th century building include primarily the scope of the cellar under the courtyard, which they say is overdesigned, superfluous and could endanger the stability of even the surrounding buildings. Neighbours are also concerned that the construction could open underground water sources.

Oldřich Černý is executive director of the Forum 2000 Foundation, which every year invites some of the world’s leading thinkers to a conference in Prague. Forum 2000 was cofounded by Václav Havel, with whom Mr. Černý was closely involved for many years. Indeed, he organised what was to be the former president’s final public appearance, a meeting with the Dalai Lama, a week before his death last month.

After the death of the late Czech president Václav Havel, thousands of people laid down wreaths and lit candles at impromptu memorial sites across the country. Now, two artists have decided to recycle those candles for an unusual memorial – a wax heart. Dozens of volunteers are currently working on the “A heart for Havel” initiative at a Prague cultural center.

Two Czech artists - Roman Švejda and Lukas Gavlovský - are creating a heart-shaped wax sculpture in honour of the late president Vaclav Havel. The sculpture is being made from the thousands of candles that people lit in Vaclav Havel’s memory on the city’s main square. The sculpture is being made at the Trafačka cultural centre and many people have voluntarily turned up to help the artists. A heart is considered to be symbolic of the late president since he often added a small heart to his signature to illustrate his life-long motto "Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred."

A requiem mass for the former Czech president Vaclav Havel was celebrated in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Friday. The mass, celebrated by Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, was attended by around a hundred guests among them foreign diplomats from the United States, Canada and Europe. The late president’s widow Dagmar Havlova was unable to attend for work reasons. Mr. Havel died in his sleep at his country cottage on December 18th at the age of 75.

A month after the death of former Czech president Václav Havel, an elementary school in the Central Bohemian town of Poděbrady has been renamed after the late president. In a public ceremony, the school’s new name was unveiled on Wednesday. Václav Havel had studied in Poděbrady and lived nearby the school that now carries his name. It is the first school in the country to be named after Mr. Havel, who died on December 18, 2011 at the age of 75.

According to a Czech member of the European Parliament, it is also likely that one of the parliament’s buildings will be named after Mr. Havel. A petition to rename Prague’s international Ruzyně airport after the late president has received over 80,000 signatures to date.

The Czech National Bank has dismissed proposal to issue 10,000 crown bill with the portrait of Václav Havel. The bank said in a statement on Monday that the suggestions were not grounded in the law, the common practice or the needs of the currency system, adding that significant personalities, events and anniversaries are honoured by commemorative coins.

The idea to issue a new, 10,000 crown bill, which would be of the highest nominal value of all Czech banknotes, came from the Czech Numismatics Association. Other proposals of how to best honour the late Václav Havel include naming Prague’s Ruzyně airport or a leading Czech theatre after him.

Czechs would like one of the country’s leading theatres, rather than Prague airport, to be named after the late president Václav Havel, according to an online poll by the Sanep agency released on Sunday. Nearly 24 percent of those polled said they preferred a theatre to bear the name of Václav Havel, compared to the less than 20 percent who want Prague’s Ruzyně airport to be named after him. Over 18 percent of the people who took part in the survey would like to rename one of Prague’s prominent streets in Václav Havel’s honour, while just over 20 percent would not rename anything.

The former Czech president, dissident and playwright Václav Havel died on December 18, 2011, aged 75. The authorities have not yet decided how to honour his memory although many proposals have been put up for debate.

In this edition of Screen Czech: just what is it that Czechs like in their movies? That and other questions will be answered by Briana Cechova, the head of the Czech National Film Archive. And, a look back on the one of the Czech Republic’s most famous film directors.

Renaming Prague’s Ruzyně airport after the late ex-president Václav Havel would cost between 10 and 15 million crowns, the Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek has said. In an interview for Hospodářské noviny the finance minister stressed that if the majority of state representatives as well as the public agreed with the renaming of the airport, he the government, as the airport’s majority stakeholder, would back the move. Film producer Fero Fenič is the author of the initiative to rename the capital’s international airport after Mr Havel. Some 80,000 people have signed the petition. The government has postponed a decision on the matter until spring and has announced that the move is pending consent by Mr Havel’s family.