Petříček to run for chairmanship of Social Democrats

Havlíček to propose reopening Czech shops from Monday

Government approves special law on pandemics

One dies, one injured in Krkonoše avalanche

News; Czech government manages to extend state of emergency after joint request from regional governors; Political scientist: Visegrad should be seen as a mechanism to build ad hoc, issue-based coalitions

The state of emergency in the Czech Republic, which grants the government extraordinary powers to enact lockdown rules, will continue until the end of February. The government was able to extend the current system after a joint request from all of t...

Police drop investigation into alleged kidnapping of PM’s son

First legal action taken against new state of emergency

Hundreds of thousands of Czechs fail to report a change in permanent residency years after moving elsewhere to study, work or even raise a family. This leads to problems determining the proper current and future capacities of kindergartens, schools ...

The statue of T. G. Masaryk, just outside Prague Castle, on a freezing cold morning in the capital city.

Karolína Muchová reaches last eight in Melbourne for first time

Sunday new Covid cases higher than previous week

Babiš: Trials of school Covid testing to start this week

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The Visegrad Four, a loose alliance of Central European states comprising the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary is celebrating 30 years since its founding in the historic town of Visegrad on February 15, 1991. What led to its creation sho...

Poll by Kantar CZ suggests ANO losing political dominance

Covid restrictions remain in place after government declares new state of emergency

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Smutná places third in Jizera Fifty

Czech economists: Pandemic cost 350 billion crowns and 80,000 jobs

Senate chair: Reinstating state of emergency is unconstitutional

Germany closes border with Czech Republic over virus mutations

Covid epidemic worsening; risk index at 77

Government declares new state of emergency

Architect, builder, politician and the greatest Czech philanthropist Josef Hlávka was born on February 15, 1939.The foundation he established in support of education, science and art is active to this day.

One of the most popular Czech bands of all time, Lucie, first performed 35 years ago as part of the ZK ROH Motorlet music contest. Since then the four rockers have created several bestselling hits which are not just played on radios, but also but Cz...

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Czech company helps restore ancient archaeological treasures: Citadel in Erbil, Choli Minaret and Shrine of Prophet Nahum

Valentine’s Day expenditures soaring

Czech research team wins European Citizen's Award for respirator prototype

Number of Covid cases continues to grow

Antibody self-testing kit to appear on the market soon

Germany to close its border with Czech Republic at midnight Saturday

PM negotiating with governors on country’s pandemic strategy after state of emergency expires

The Czech company Gema Art has helped to rescue and restore cultural heritage sites at home and abroad. Among the larger projects, which it has undertaken in the Czech Republic are restoration work at the Municipal House in Prague, the Cathedral of ...

State of emergency to end on February 14

South Moravian Crisis Staff asks regional governor to request new state of emergency

Chamber of Commerce: Most companies preparing to re-open under strict rules

Ipsos: PM Babiš’s ANO polling at 27 pct, opposition coalitions at 23, 22 pct

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Australian Open: Vondroušová beats Cîrstea to reach round 16

Despite the pandemic, Czechs are busy preparing for the summer holidays. Travel agencies have already sold thousands of tickets to warm destinations such as Greece, Egypt, Spain and Turkey. Aware of the situation, providers have accustomed their tra...

Lower house refuses to extend state of emergency raising fears of a set-back in the fight against Covid-19; Brno archaeologists reveal early Slavs used Germanic runes prior to Glagolitic script; Looking back at 30 years of the Visegrad Group

Archeologists at the Masaryk University in Brno have announced a groundbreaking discovery. The researchers have found a fragment of an inscribed bone which proves that the oldest writing system used by the ancient Slavs were Germanic runes, not the ...

This coming Monday, the partnership between the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, known as the Visegrád Group will celebrate 30 years of existence. The V4, as the group is commonly referred to, reached the goals it originally set out ac...

Czechia authorises temporary use of Bamlanivimab for Covid-19 patients

Analysts: food prices drove unexpected January rise in inflation

Friday morning coldest this winter, as low as -30 degrees Celsius

Czechia has second highest Covid-19 infection rate in EU

The Czech lower house on Thursday rejected a government proposal to extend the state of emergency beyond February 14, despite the worsening coronavirus epidemic in some regions. The decision will effectively end the validity of the restrictions in p...

President’s chancellor accused of damaging EU's financial interests

Germany to reinstate border controls with Czech Republic

Large segment of Czechs disregard recommended COVID-19 precautions; Brno launches pilot project to house seniors alongside kindergartens; Interview with Czech anthropologist Zdenka Sokolíčková who is studying how local people perceive the effec...

Despite recommendations, 46 percent of Czechs with coronavirus symptoms choose to venture outside their homes, a new survey initiated by the World Health Organisation in Europe indicates. Close to a half believe that the pandemic is largely a media ...

Brno, the second-largest Czech city, has launched a pilot project to bring seniors and kindergarten children together in one building. Studies show similar initiatives have greatly improved the mental health and physical wellbeing of the elderly, wh...

Many people in the Czech Republic have become accustomed to working from home due to the coronavirus situation. With many offices empty, some companies have become subletting space – and offering lower rents and other incentives, Hospodářské no...

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Constitutional Court head Rychetsky tightlipped on president’s decision to withhold award

Death of terminally ill patient investigated in connection with Covid vaccine

Wednesday brings third highest daily increase of Covid cases in three weeks

EU lists Czech blue poppy in protected geographical indication (PGI) register

Lower house debating extending state of emergency

Three districts under lockdown

Bavaria tightens conditions for Czech cross-border workers

News, Czech film Charlatan on shortlist for Best International Film in Academy Awards, new website celebrates legacy of Sir Nicholas Winton, Prague's Jewish Quarter

The Czech film Charlatan, a biographical drama about a controversial healer in communist-era Czechoslovakia, directed by Agnieszka Holland, has made the shortlist of 15 films in the running for Best International Film in this year’s Academy Award...

Tennis - Australian Open: Kvitová out, Vondroušová qualifies for third round

President Zeman in Poland to mark 30th anniversary of Visegrád Group

PM Babiš: Czechia will not administer Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine before EU approval, but may buy doses

A freshly launched website celebrates the legacy of Sir Nicholas Winton, who in 1939 saved 669 mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia by helping them get to his native UK. The site showcases a wealth of material from the Sir Nicholas Winton Memo...

Poll: Majority favour Constitutional Court move to scrap aspect of proportional voting system

AAA Auto plans to expand used car sales to Western Europe

Ex-Central Bohemia governor David Rath to work as a prison doctor while an inmate

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State of emergency talks continue; school closures, compensation sticking points

Football: Slavia Prague permitted to play Europa League match vs Leicester City at home

Covid-19: new cases exceeds 10,000 per day for first time since mid-January

Blatný: No use of unapproved Sputnik V as long as I am minister

Czech film Charlatan makes Oscars shortlist

Zeman and other V4 presidents mark 30 years of cooperation at Poland summit

ČTU students’ open-source balancing robot, Erasmus+ in the coronavirus era, fascinating book on a Prague Jewish family at the brink of WWII

More snow due in southeast, freezing conditions expected around state

The EU’s Erasmus+ is a popular study abroad programme which gives hundreds of thousands of students every year the opportunity to study, or gain work experience in another EU member state. The programme is also very popular among Czech students, w...

Babiš to discuss vaccinations in Serbia, user of Sputnik V

Czech Republic sending Covid aid to Moldova and Peru

Karolína Plíšková reaches second round at Australian Open

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2020 tourism numbers down by half

Parties begin discussing electoral law changes

Monday Covid numbers up on same day last week

Graduate students at the Czech Technical University in Prague have developed a balancing robot, which they dubbed “SK8O” (Skate-O). Thanks to its relatively low price (50,000 Czech crowns) and open-source design, the device can be built in schoo...

Government approves quarantine payments as stay-home incentive

Ministers seek state of emergency extension to mid-March

Stadiums are currently closed in the Czech Republic. This has led many fans to look for alternative ways in which to follow their team's performances. Bohemians 1905, which boasts one of the most loyal and seemingly innovative fanbases, saw its sup...

News, EU vaccine strategy, Czech Film Critics’ Awards, Jakub Hlávka, a young Czech academic focused on health policy who’s building an impressive career in the US

An unprecedented joint procurement initiative led by Brussels to secure coronavirus vaccines and make them equally available to all 27 EU member states has fallen well short of the mark. To date, just over 3 percent of the bloc’s population of 450...

Director Bohdan Sláma’s Shadow Country (Krajina ve stínu) won the 2020 annual Czech Film Critics’ Awards on Saturday. The black and white film which depicts life in a Czech border village during the most tumultuous period in twentieth century ...

Marked fall in new apartment construction recorded in 2020

Jewish Museum chief slams minister over Covid-WWII comparison

Petra Kvitová advances at Australian Open

The young US-based Czech academic Jakub Hlávka is an expert on health policy, working on government projects focused on the Covid pandemic as well as studying the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease. But as we shall hear, the high-flyer also has exp...

No change in Covid risk index or reproduction number

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Heavy snow causes transport problems

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Czech Senate shows support for Belarus opposition

Risk index at 71, reproduction number increases

Sláma’s Shadow Country wins at Czech Film Critics’ Awards

Czech leaders mull antigen tests at schools

Prague and Central Bohemia leaders against restrictions on movement

Hamáček: Pubs that breach Covid rules could face year’s closure

Global soccer great Josef Masopust, a World Cup runner-up with Czechoslovakia and the first Czech recipient of the Ballon d’Or, was born on 9 February 1931.

Ida Kelarová is a singer, musician and choirmaster, who performs some of the best Romany music to come out of the Czech Republic. On the occasion of Ida’s 65th birthday we are offering you some of the best of Ida Kellarová’s music.

Interview with ballet dancer Miřenka Čechova, history of Rudolfinum concert hall

Insurance-covered Covid testing at firms may start this month

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2020 Czech TV audiences highest in decades

Snow and temperatures as low as -15C due next week

Communists confirm decision to cease supporting state of emergency

Registered Covid deaths in CR pass 17,000 mark