Prague suburb fines PM Andrej Babiš for conflict of interest

Covid-19: average age of vaccinated hospital patients is 74

Czech ice hockey head Tomáš Král keeps post despite accusations of being StB collaborator

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Unions: a third of Česká pošta workers to take part in three-day ‘work slowdown’ strike

The reoffending rate in the Czech Republic continues to be one of the highest in the European Union, with up to 70 percent of former convicts returning to jail, sooner or later. According to experts, the most effective solution to the problem is to ...

Transparency International: opposition coalitions running “most transparent” election campaigns

On 1 October 1991 the first edition of The Prague Post hit the newsstands. Though now defunct, the newspaper remains the most significant publication of its kind in the country’s post-communist period. Ahead of the 30-year anniversary, I spoke to ...

Football: Patrik Schick among players picked for World Cup qualifiers

Czech PM receives Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán in Prague

Czech Hockey Association may vote to sack chair over alleged communist-era StB collaboration

Czechia has 713 centenarians, eldest is 109-year-old Prague woman

Tuesday sees highest non-working day Covid cases since May

Czech judge Šimáčková elected to European Court of Human Rights

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Czech Republic gets first payment from EU coronavirus recovery fund

Orban to meet Babiš in constituency where Czech PM is running in elections

Reopening of basilica one of main events on St. Wenceslas Day

Highest new infections number since late May recorded Monday

September 28 is St Wenceslas Day, a state holiday in the Czech Republic, marking the death of the nation's patron saint.

This Tuesday, Prague Zoo marks exactly 90 years since its opening. At the time, the zoo looked more like a construction site and visitors could only see about 30 animal species. Since then, it has developed into one of the world’s leading institut...

Prague Zoo celebrates 90th anniversary of opening

Zeman and Babiš discuss inflation and emissions permits at regular meeting

Czechs and Poles to resume talks on Turow mine Wednesday

Government approves draft state budget for 2022

Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize for 2021 goes to Belorussian opposition activist Maria Kalesnikava

The Czech Republic is currently lacking approximately 14,000 IT professionals, suggests a new survey, conducted by Coding Bootcamp Prague and the recruiting platform Techloop.

The whole of Europe is watching Germany, where the long era of Chancellor Angela Merkel has ended in near deadlock. Several Czech politicians have congratulated the Social Democrats on their narrow win – and are talking up even closer cooperation ...

Scientists from the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) have an unusual, constantly evolving colleague – a humanoid robot named iCub. While not the first such robot at the university’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, iCub is the firs...

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President signs into force bill sidelining China and Russia from Dukovany tender

Euro: Kellner’s widow now richest Czech

Slow, but steady rise in Covid cases throughout September

The ancient walls and cellars of the Lipý water castle in the north Bohemian town of Česká Lípa have been decorated with dozens of glassworks from the workshop of Jiří Pačinek, a renowned master glassmaker.

The jailing of members and associates of the Plastic People of the Universe famously sparked Czechoslovakia’s Charter 77 human rights movement. The underground rock legends’ discography is the subject of a new book, A Consumer Guide to the Plast...

Police investigating murder of Czech woman in Colombia

Vaclav Klaus to remain in hospital

Travel restrictions from France, Spain, Netherlands and Monaco eased

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Retailers struggling with shortage of packaging materials

Coronavirus tests to be covered by health insurance in October

Kantar: ANO losing its edge over rivals ahead of general elections

Rise in Covid cases slow but steady

Government launches new campaign as interest in getting Covid vaccine wanes

Romeo and Juliet, directed by Simon Godwin wins main prize at Golden Prague festival

The 180th anniversary of the birth of Antonín Dvořák coincides with the 1100th anniversary of the death of Ludmila, the first Czech saint.

Senior Nazi Reinhard Heydrich became acting governor of Bohemia and Moravia on a symbolic date, 28th September – St. Wenceslas’ Day – 1941. As soon as he was installed he declared martial law and oversaw mass arrests, executions and deportatio...

France, Spain, Netherlands and Monaco to turn orange on Monday

Government to debate further loosening of coronavirus measures for school-goers

Some foreign students unnecessarily undergoing repeated vaccinations against Covid

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Fridays for Future protest against climate change in Prague

Slight increase in Covid cases, but epidemic still in check

Czech-Polish talks reported to have made progress in resolving Turow mine dispute

Czechs will go to the polls on Octber 8 -9 to elect a new parliament and pave the way for a new government. Who are the leaders looking to become the new PM? Will it be personalities or issues that will decide the upcoming elections? And, given what...

Football: Sparta Prague fined for fans’ racist comments

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Prague was recently voted the most beautiful city in the world and the seventh best city to live in, in a poll by city-dwellers from across the globe. The survey compiled by the lifestyle and culture magazine Time Out was based on a poll rating food...

Czech, Polish officials meet in Prague to discuss dispute over Turów mine near shared border

Prague Castle hosts microbrewery festival this weekend

ÚOHS fines Interior Ministry for purchasing weapons for Police without holding tender

Confidence in Czech economy drops for third straight month

Febiofest main competition award goes to Swedish film ‘Charter’

Tennis: Petra Kvitová, Tereza Martincová enter Ostrava quarterfinals

In a speech at the UN General Assembly, Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek supported the territorial integrity of Ukraine and Georgia and demanded the release of people detained in Belarus. He also called for more international cooperation on a ...

The British journalist, author and analyst Edward Lucas has been covering central and eastern European affairs since 1986, including as a senior editor at The Economist magazine. Czech Radio reporter Petr Dudek recently interviewed him about a range...

An interracial relationship comes with many learning moments. It’s in the moments of sharing takeaway Asian food that I am reminded of our different life experiences.  

Covid reproduction number in Czech Republic falls to 1.0

Kulhánek calls for more cooperation on terrorism and climate change in UN address

Ex-president Klaus readmitted to hospital with high blood pressure

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš visited Hungary’s controversial “anti-migrant” fence on Wednesday, keen to see for himself the latest thermal imaging camera system installed along the country’s borders with Serbia and Croatia. Leading the tour ...

The arrival of cooler weather has launched the heating season in most parts of the Czech Republic. This year, Czechs are bracing for higher heating costs, caused by rising energy prices as well as prices of solid fuels, including coal and firewood. ...

Polish site: PM cancels trip to avoid Babiš

A “singing” linden tree, also known as the Lukas linden, has been voted the Czech Tree of the Year 2021. The majestic tree, which is estimated to be at least 700 years old, grows in the village of Telecí in Eastern Bohemia and will now compete...

Czech Covid numbers stagnant

State attorney accused of slow response to new info in Babiš fraud case

2021 Book World Prague gets underway

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Most successful Czech rower ever Synek retires

Viktor Orbán calls on Czechia to deploy soldiers, police on Hungarian border with Serbia

Anti-communist fighter Lubor Šušlík dies at 92

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Torah stolen by Nazis for post-Holocaust ‘Jewish museum’ back in use in Prague

58th Golden Prague International Television Festival starts Wednesday

Czech president released from hospital, will hold meetings

Josef Koudelka – whose pictures of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion were seen around the world – is regarded by many as the greatest living Czech photographer. Now the 83-year-old has donated many of his most important works to institutions in his n...

Czech PM to visit ‘anti-migrant’ border fence in Hungary

More than 40,000 Czech students cast their ballots in mock elections held at secondary schools across the country this week. The outcome of the vote, held a fortnight ahead of regular elections, showed that the future generation of voters would end ...

Football: Czech women celebrate victory against Cyprus in World Cup qualification

Volleyball: Czech women qualify for World Cup

Industry Minister: tender to expand Dukovany NPP possible soon after October elections

Most Covid cases since late May recorded Tuesday

Czech Republic preorders Covid vaccines for children under 12

Prosecutor given month to decide on Babiš charge over fraud case

The Czech Republic has until Wednesday to inform Brussels how the country has addressed conflicts of interest issues regarding the distribution of EU subsidies. According to the news site iRozhlas, the European Commission rejected a request by Czec...

Photography great Koudelka makes large donation to Czech state

The famous Manneken-Pis has gained world fame as the emblem of Brussels. Very few people, even here in the Czech Republic, know that one Czech town has a statue of a peeing boy as well. Nobody knows exactly when it was installed, but it is known to ...

CR only has to Wednesday to respond to EC call for subsidy allocation report

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Govt. want to debate salary freeze for legislators just before elections

Schillerová: Social Democrats’ minimum wage proposal out of question

Poland fined over refusal to stop mining activity close to Czech border

Criminal investigators propose filing new charges in Stork’s Nest case

More than two-thirds of consumers in the Czech Republic shop online at least every month, a quarter do so every two weeks, and 14 percent shop online every week. These are among the findings of a survey by Visa based on a representative sample of 1,...

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In the autumn of 1951, Communist authorities launched a massive wave of agricultural “collectivisation”, forcibly evicting thousands of Czech farmers from their land and homesteads. To mark the 70th anniversary of “Operation Kulak”, a monume...

Thousands of people around the Czech Republic have begun receiving text messages informing them that they are in line for a third jab against the coronavirus. Over a million booster shots should be administered by the end of 2021.

Uninsured Czech climbers in Pakistan not to get help from state

Disputes over wage growth in public sector continue

GPs and vaccination centres start administering booster shots against Covid-19

MPs slam Environmental Inspectorate for botching investigation of Bečva River poisoning

Around 60,000 people attended the 2021 edition of the annual NATO Days in Ostrava and Czech Air Force Days event, which took place at the Mošnov airfield in the Moravia-Silesia Region at the weekend.

Sunday new Covid cases up on previous week

Oath party removes candidates over failure to produce lustration certs

Minister Maláčová says Social Democrats insist on 6 percent public sector pay rise

Saturday recorded Covid cases up on previous week but hospitalisations fall

Turnout 60 percent for 13 municipal elections

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More and more young adults still living with parents in CR

Thousands in CR in position to get third Covid jab from next week