Rising prices and shortages of building materials are beginning to be reflected in apartment prices in the Czech Republic, the Czech News Agency reported, citing property developers.

Covid-19: Reproduction number lowest in week

Czech Republic joins condemnation of violence against Georgian LGBT activists

Czech Republic joins condemnation of violence against Georgian LGBT activists

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Karolína Plíšková reaches her first Wimbledon semi-final, Muchová exits in fifth round

Tomas Butta re-inaugurated as patriarch of Czechoslovak Hussite Church

Meteorologists issue heatwave warning

Czech tourist dies in Austrian Alps

Covid-19: reproduction number drops to 1.2

Czechs mark Jan Hus anniversary

Four injured in chemical plant explosion in Lovosice

July 6th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic honouring the memory of reformer priest Jan Hus who was burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church in 1415. A theologian, philosopher and professor at Charles Univer...

Covid vaccination: Czech Republic slightly behind EU average

Plíšková and Muchová through to Wimbledon quarterfinals, Krejčíková exits in fourth round

116 athletes set to represent Czech Republic at Tokyo Olympics

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Covid-19 incidence rate continues to increase

Czechs mark legacy of St. Cyril and Methodius

Basketball: Czech Republic crushes Greece to advance to Tokyo Olympics

July 5th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic, celebrating the legacy of the Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius who came to Great Moravia in 862. As founders of the liturgical Slavonic language and the Glagolitic alphabet, the Byzantine bro...

Prague Pride set for August 2-8, without parade

Czechia misses EU single-use plastics ban deadline

ČSSZ: Nearly every third Czech senior opts for early retirement

Football: Czech team captain Vladimír Darida steps down

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Deloitte: prices of flats in big Czech cities up 19 pct on average

Banat Festival in Czech-Romanian community to resume

Covid cases rise slightly, testing soars ahead of holidays

Over the past decade, big bands have been experiencing something of a Renaissance here in the Czech Republic. One of the new ensembles on the scene is Cotatcha Orchestra, named after its bandleader Jiří Kotača.

90 years ago, a statue of Radegast was unveiled in mountain path along the ridge from Pustevny to Radhošt'. Its creator was the sculptor Albín Polášek.

Football: Czechs lose to Danes 1:2 in Euro quarter-finals

Grant Agency chairman, scientist Jaroslav Koča dies at age 65

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Senate approves amendment to let women to remove -ová suffix from surname

Prague hotel summer booking levels remains weak

Liberec Region and Post Bellum to cooperate on oral history project

Prague’s Liechtenstein Palace opens to the public on Monday

Covid cases rise slightly, 126 total Delta cases recorded

The Czech Ministry of Health has announced a tightening of restrictions amidst an upsurge of new Covid-19 cases. Starting next Friday, Czechs who are not fully vaccinated will have to undergo a test for the coronavirus when returning from abroad, s...

Most Czechs eligible to vote in the October parliamentary elections say that a party’s program will be the deciding factor in how they will cast their ballots, according to a Median survey for Czech Radio. The party leader’s personalities are al...

Pubs and restaurants may soon be obliged to check people’s Covid certificates

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Children over 12 registering for Covid vaccine

Fire in Prague’s Letnany fairgrounds causes extensive damage

More soldiers to help tornado-devastated villages

Rise in Covid numbers following weeks of steady decline

63rd Smetana’s Litomyšl festival gets underway

Vojtěch: Not fully vaccinated must undergo test on return from abroad

With one of the largest concentrations of hot springs in Europe, Karlovy Vary is the largest Czech spa town. For hundreds of years, it has attracted visitors from all over the world, including some very famous figures such as Johan Wolfgang Goethe o...

Hungarian minister presents Babiš with 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine

Prague Public Transport Company has signed a contract with a consortium of companies for the construction of the first section of the planned new “D” line of the Prague metro, serving the southern suburbs of the capital.

The Municipal Library of Prague marks its 130th anniversary on Thursday. The Public General Library of the Royal Capital of Prague, as it was called in the old days, opened to the citizens of Prague on July 1, 1891. Today, it has 44 branches around ...

The last 12 Czech soldiers stationed in Afghanistan as part of a NATO mission to fight the Taliban returned home on Sunday afternoon, thus bringing to an end the longest operational deployment in Czech Army history. In total, some 11,500 Czech soldi...

Online grocers Rohlik now valued at EUR 1 billion

Zeman defends ex-MP investigated by police over sexual misconduct

Living standard of Czech households unchanged since pandemic

Czech Covid reproduction number at highest level since February

Czech fans drop plan to charter plane to Baku for Denmark game

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Czechs must show Covid certificate on entering Croatia

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Tennis: four more Czech women, one man advance to Wimbledon second round

Covid-19: vaccination campaign opens to over-12s

Police evacuate Seznam.cz buildings due to bomb threat

As Europe braces for a wave of the more contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, the Czech Republic is racing against time to inoculate as large a segment of the population as possible before its inevitable spread in the country. The list of no-...

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Czech gov’t debt up 630 billion year on year, mainly due to pandemic

The 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will open in August with Zátopek, David Ondříček’s much-anticipated biopic of the running legend. Meanwhile, among the 12 works in contention for Best Film this year will be thre...

Czech Army confirms last soldiers have withdrawn from Afghanistan

NCOZ: Foreign criminal groups increasingly seek Czech residency

Insurance companies in the Czech Republic estimate the damage caused by a devastating tornado last Thursday at CZK 3.6 billion. Meanwhile, businesses hit by the disaster can apply for special government aid.

Foreign Ministry: Prague cannot recover Russian Embassy land except via sale

Czech authorities warn of uptick in Covid-19 spread

Czech authorities recommend soccer fans stay away from Baku

Russia and Tunisia added to list of Covid travel ban states

120 Delta variant cases recorded in CR to date

Czech Olympic Committee approves 100 nominees for team for Tokyo

Just month ahead of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the Czech Olympic Committee unveiled its official collection for the opening ceremony. The outfit in national colours, with white and blue predominating, was inspired by the UNESCO-listed tradition ...

Governor: Tornado-hit villages require building materials only

Police arrest man suspected of fatal shooting and acid attack after major operation

The Czech Republic offers patients a very high standard of medical care. However the sore point in Czech hospitals is the food – still prepared according to dietary norms from 1955. The Health Ministry is now promising a revolution in hospital foo...

Babiš: Pandemic not over, situation in Prague concerning

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Zátopek to open 55th Karlovy Vary film festival

Czechs agree to establish Belarusian opposition representation in Prague

Tennis: Petra Kvitová knocked out of Wimbledon by Sloane Stephens

Czechs hand Russian Ambassador note demanding Vrbětice explosion compensation

Czech gov’t rejects Euro Parliament resolution on PM Babiš’s conflict of interest

Agricultural Ministry: tornado caused 1.5 bn in damage to southern Moravian farms

Road construction projects in the Czech Republic are facing problems as builders complain that essential materials are increasingly hard to source, Czech Television reported. What’s more, prices are on the rise.

The weekend saw the latest instalment of the Czech Army’s Bahna (Mud) in Brdy military show at its former training ground. It showed off the army’s latest gear as well as recreating operations from the first and second world wars. Pictured are 7...

Czech President Miloš Zeman has made headlines again with another of his controversial comments, this time aimed at the transgender community, women’s rights activists and the #MeToo movement. Critics say his words could impact the mental health ...

Climate activists demonstrate outside Czech National Bank

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Poll: 61 pct of Czechs trust media, only 26 pct believe pandemic-related info

Police accuse suspect, legal entity over Bečva River cyanide poisoning

Summer Shakespeare Festival opens in Prague on Monday

Remember when a doll of the Czech cartoon character Krtek, or Little Mole, left the Earth’s atmosphere on a Space Shuttle mission? The person to thank for that is Indira Feustel, wife of US astronaut Drew Feustel. Indira, who describes herself as ...

PM Babiš: Covid vaccination interval reduced as of July

The Czech Republic have caused the biggest upset so far at the European Football Championship, after knocking the Netherlands out on Sunday evening. Their impressive 2:0 victory in Budapest sets up a game against Denmark for a place in the semi-fina...

Czechs beat Netherlands 2-0 to reach Euro 2020 quarterfinals

Tornado claims sixth victim

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President Zeman slams transgender people, women’s rights activists and Me Too

Climatologist: changes happening faster than anticipated

Coronavirus epidemic slowing, fears of Indian mutation

Czech foreign minister: resetting relations with Russia task for next government

Tornado damage estimates rising by the day

Clean-up work in tornado-hit area continues

The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, commonly known as the Comecon, was headed by the USSR and was meant to deliver prosperity to the whole Eastern Bloc. At its final session on June 28, 1991 an agreement was reached to dissolve it in 90 days...

Sinfonietta, an orchestral composition by Leoš Janáček, written at a time of strong nationalism and an atmosphere of anticipation of the Seventh Sokol Slet is perceived as an ode to Czechoslovakia.

President Zeman thanks nation for coming together in wake of natural disaster

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Hundreds demonstrate against police over man’s death in Teplice

Confidence in president, government and parliament down

Justice minister proposing Igor Stříž as new chief prosecutor

Day of Ground Forces celebrated online

Further easing of coronavirus measures

Plight of tornado ravaged villages sparks wave of solidarity