EU Commission head, Czech PM meet in Prague to discuss EU economic stimulus package

Early 1990s Prague, when everything seemed possible, has attained almost mythical status. Travel writer and journalist Mark Baker had been regularly visiting Czechoslovakia even prior to the fall of communism – and delivers illuminating reflection...

Biochemist: Czech Republic close to achieving herd immunity

Investigace.cz: Governments used Israeli technology to spy on journalists

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Krejčíková wins Prague Open, picks up third title this season

Tram parade marks 130 years since first tram rode through Prague

Although once considered the best Czech soul singer, Michal Prokop chose to enter politics during the 1990s where he served for 10 years. Now, after years of silence he has restarted his signing career and has just released a new album - Mohlo by to...

Last two of seven escaped bison return to their enclosure in Tábor Zoo

Many Czechs requalifying post pandemic

Member of Czech logistics team to Olympics tests positive for Covid-19

Several regions dealing with local floods after hours of torrential rain

July 18, 1891 was one of the most important days not only in the history of Prague’s public transport, but also in the history of railway transport and Czech technical engineering in general.

Russia blocks Radio Prague International’s website on its territory

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Meteorologists issue severe storm warning

Krejčíková to play Martincová at all-Czech Prague Open final

Covid numbers slightly declining

Czech Republic in talks with potential battery cell factory investors

Russia blocks website of human rights organization for cooperating with Czech NGO

Daniel Herman awarded Charles IV Prize at Sudeten German Landsmannschaft conference

Roughly CZK 170 billion have been allocated by the state to support businesses since the coronavirus pandemic hit the Czech Republic in March 2020. The subsidies have now been cut, but the Czech hospitality sector is still struggling.

One of the major obstacles in the use of 3D printing in the construction sector are the sharp edges on most buildings, at least in this part of the world. Scientists from Liberec are now developing a construction robot that should be able to deal wi...

After being closed for nearly two decades, the historic carousel in Prague’s Letná park is now set to be restored and reopened, the Czech Technical Museum, which administers the building, has announced. Its director Karel Ksandr hopes that if all...

EC ready to approve Czech Republic’s National Recovery Plan

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Covid data indicate a new rise in coronavirus epidemic

Pirate Party suing PM

EC urging Prague to introduce reliable system to identify and prevent conflict of interest

EC Vice-President Frans Timmermans holds Green Deal talks with Czech officials

Nestled in a shallow valley between the green hills of the Slavkov and Upper Palpatine Forests, Mariánské Lázně is the second-largest Bohemian spa town. Like Františkovy Lázně and Karlovy Vary, the town combines a laid-back spa atmosphere wit...

Finance Ministry selects Jiří Pos to become chairman of the board at Prague Airport

Justice minister files disciplinary action against former prosecutor general

Priorities of Czech EU presidency discussed at roundtable

Czech PM to meet with Frans Timmermans to discuss European Commission's electro mobility plan

The Olomouc-based Bikesharing company Nextbike has expanded to over twenty cities in the Czech Republic. The company currently operates nearly 5,200 shared bicycles and electric bikes, which is an increase by 170 percent on the previous year.

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Czech Radio: Issuing certificates to people inoculated in third countries plagued by complications

Czechs most concerned about coronavirus, according to survey

Despite the sound of gunfire, explosions and ground army vehicles, the military ground of Libavá has become something of a sanctuary for rare species of birds. Since 2016, when the area partly reopened to the public, ornithologists have been closel...

NortonLifeLock in talks to buy Avast, WSJ reports

Prague will host a two day multi-genre festival of music, theatre performances and slam poetry starting Friday titled "Art belongs to the streets". It will be the first such event after the long months of coronavirus lockdown.  I asked the festival...

Prague metro to operate until midnight from Thursday

New building act places heritage sites in danger, warns Czech head of ICOMOS

Culture Ministry interested in buying writer Bohumil Hrabal’s home in Kersko

Digitally restored version of Vojtěch Jasný’s The Cassandra Cat screened at Cannes

Euro 2020: Patrick Schick’s stunning effort named Goal of the Tournament

West Ham’s Souček wins Golden Ball for Czech player of year for second time

The former holiday home of famous Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal in Kersko, east of Prague, is now on sale for the price of CZK 11.9 million.

Foreigners with long-term residency will have to insure themselves exclusively with the state health insurance company VZP for a period of five years, according to a bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, which will now be sent to the pr...

Patrick Van Damme, Belgian professor in tropical agronomy, has recently been appointed to head the Faculty of Tropical Agri-Sciences , becoming the first foreign dean in the history of the University of Life Sciences. I met with Mr van Damme to disc...

Bookmakers: Czechs will bring seven or eight medals from Tokyo

Temperature swings, heavy storms and flash floods have become a regular feature of the Czech summer. In late June, the country moreover experienced an unseen event in human memory-a tornado that ripped through seven villages leaving a trail of devas...

Deputies approve legislation requiring foreigners to be insured with state insurer VZP

Restored tomb of Czech painter Josef Šíma unveiled in Paris

Last snowfield in Giant Mountains has melted

Covid-19: number of new cases exceed 300

Lower house approves bill increasing child benefits

Parliament approves new building act

The Czech Health Ministry is planning to end the availability of taking free preventative coronavirus tests from September 1, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch announced. From September, only indicative tests requested by a patient’s GP or hygiene sta...

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The number of people in Moravian Silesian region who are at risk of losing their housing or living in unsatisfactory conditions has been growing, Czech Radio reported. At the moment, over 4,000 households in Ostrava,north Moravia are threatened by h...

Freshwater fish are in danger of becoming addicted to methamphetamine, Czech scientists have warned in a study published in the prestigious Journal of Experimental Biology. Their research has shown that after spending time in meth contaminated water...

The 2021 Prague European Summit addressing common responses to EU challenges

Czech NGOs collect over 1 billion crowns in aid of tornado-hit villages

Rothschild family heirs take their property claim to the European Court of Human Rights

Supreme State Attorney Igor Stříž: I will not bow to pressure

In an ordinary life, visits to official ministry offices should occur only three times - when you’re born, when you get married, and when you die. In the past decade of living abroad, I’ve lost count of the number of battles I’ve had at the fr...

Monday's coronavirus cases lower than last week

Candidates for Czech European Court of Human Rights judge approved by government

Health minister: Coronavirus tests could stop being free from September 1

Igor Stříž named chief public prosecutor

Health Minister: Mobile teams will be sent out to vaccinate in excluded neighbourhoods

Czech defence minister to share Afghan support plan with government

Graffiti on Charles Bridge removed

Patrick Schick named second best goal scorer at EURO 2021 after Cristiano Ronaldo

Two centres offering Covid-19 vaccination without prior registration opened in Prague on Monday. Their aim is to attract more people to get the jab amidst a growing number of new cases. The vaccine is available to everyone over the age of 16, includ...

 Czechia is a parliamentary republic. The bicameral Parliament, made up of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, constitutes the legislative branch of government. Executive power is shared by the prime minister’s cabinet and the president, whos...

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Czechs spent CZK 3.5 billion on cryptocurrencies in first half of 2021

Czech chemical producer Draslovka Holding to buy CZK 2.23 billion cyanide factory in South Africa

The ruins of Königsmühle or King’s Mill, a dilapidated settlement near the Czech-German border bears testimony of the tumultuous years of the 20th century. Life in the settlement which had only six houses, ended with the expulsion of Sudeten Ger...

Covid reproduction number at its highest since October

One of the Czech Republic’s most iconic landmarks, Charles Bridge in Prague, has been spray-painted with graffiti. The inscription, written in blue paint, stretching almost halfway up the stone railing. Conservationist Jakub Tluchoř is now workin...

Plíšková moves into WTA tennis top 10 after reaching Wimbledon finals

Interval between first and second coronavirus vaccine doses shortened to 21 days

Spain tightens restrictions for travellers from Czech Republic

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Seven bison escape from Tábor zoo during storm

Activity of ticks at highest level

Reproduction number at its highest since January

June 2021 third warmest on record

Youth who spray painted Charles Bridge turns himself over to police

Two walk-in vaccination centres to open in Prague

The first section of the D1 motorway was opened to traffic on 12 July 1971 with a spectacular ribbon cutting ceremony, attended by Communist leaders. The section was only 21 kilometres long, running from Prague to the Central Bohemian town of Miroš...

Czech theatre has a strong tradition of musicals. Even the Czech national anthem originally comes from a musical theatre production. However, the real golden age of Czech musicals began after 1989.

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Karolína Plíšková hopes of winning first Grand Slam dashed by Ashleigh Barty

Lobbyist Roman Janoušek ordered back to jail

Police looking for young couple following damage to Charles Bridge

Czech javelin champion Barbora Špotáková claims her 21st Diamond League victory

Four more Prague metro stations get mobile coverage

Unemployment drops to 3.7 in June

Visegrad group leaders call for inclusion of Western Balkans into Schengen

Chief Hygienist: Delta mutation particularly common among people returning from high-risk states

Bill that envisions cutting benefits for people avoiding fine payments passes through lower-house

More than 50,000 children registered for coronavirus vaccine in Czechia

Recent polls have suggested a new political grouping may make the five-percent threshold to reach the Chamber of Deputies in elections this autumn. The Oath (Přísaha in Czech) have been using similar anti-corruption rhetoric to previous new partie...

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The annual Baroque Festival gets underway on Friday in the Moravian city of Olomouc. Over the course of the next two months, visitors will have a chance to see a wide range of performances from symphonic to chamber and sacred music. One of the highl...

Františkovy Lázně is the smallest and westernmost town of the Bohemian Spa Triangle, which it forms along with Karlovy Vary and Marianské Lázně. But although its population numbers only a little over five thousand residents, the town can certa...

Charles Bridge sprayed with graffiti

Army and veterans commemorate anniversary of Battle of Britain

Slovakia reopens all border crossings with Czechia

Labour Office: Unemployment fell to 3.7 percent in June

Powerful storms leave tens of thousands of households without electricity

Apartment and house prices in the Czech Republic increased by an average of 11.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021, after rising by 8.9 percent in the previous three-month period.

Plíšková: First Grand Slam final in five years shows value of persevering

Unvaccinated must now present negative test at work after foreign trip

Plíšková wins at Wimbledon to reach second Grand Slam final of career