The present level of digitization in public administration will be woefully inadequate in three to five years according to a survey among its employees conducted by CEEC Research. They are calling for faster progress in the field, with greater coordination and interconnectedness of the system.

Real estate developer RC Europe, founded by Czech investors Miroslav Hartman and Jan Prokop – two former directors of German retailer Lidl – has completed the purchase of a land plot in Miercurea Ciuc, in central Romania, from Israeli company Plaza Centers, Profit.ro has reported.

On the rooftop terrace of the five-star Hotel U Prince, Pavel Baudis surveys the city he's lived in for most of his 59 years. Baudis' baby is Avast, the anti-virus software that sits on more than 400 million computers and smartphones around the world.

The Czech Republic has been rated among the world's top ten most developed countries according to the 2019 Sustainable Development Report, a UN initiative now in its fourth year produced by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) to identify where the world's countries are at in long-term goals for sustainable development (SDGs).

Biotech companies within the PPF Group, controlled by Czech billionaire Petr Kellner, are reporting advances in efforts to extend the lives of cancer patients. The companies Sotio and Cytune Pharma announced on Thursday that they had started the first trial dosing of cancer patients with SO-C101, a superagonist fusion protein of interleukin IL-15. The first human patient began undergoing treatment at the Gustave Roussy Institute in Paris.

The Czech Philharmonic has this week announced that Concertmaster Josef Špaček will step down from the role – effective from the end of the 2019-2020 season. Josef, who was appointed to the Concertmaster position in 2011, aged just 24, has indicated he will leave the ensemble to focus on his solo career.

Seven people, including two Czechs, have been killed in a violent storm that swept across a region of northern Greece on Wednesday night. Gale-force winds, heavy rain and hailstorms lashed Halkidiki, near the city of Thessaloniki.