Gdansk to name street after Vaclav Havel

The northern Polish city of Gdansk has announced that it will name one of its streets after the late Czech president Vaclav Havel. City mayor Pawel Adamowicz said Mr. Havel was the “Czech Lech Walesa” and was greatly loved and honoured in Poland. The decision to rename the street, as of Friday- the day of Mr. Havel’s funeral, is said to have been unanimous. In Prague there is an initiative to rename the city’s main international airport after the country’s first post-communist president.