Covid cases dropping, interest in inoculation likewise

Opposition party obstructing new debate on Pandemic Law

Lower house debating Pandemic Law following veto from Senate

Perhaps the most famous Czech ice hockey player ever, Jaromír Jágr, is celebrating his 50th birthday this Tuesday. To mark the occasion, coin maker České dukáty and the State Printing Works of Securities (STC) are printing a total of 10,000 spe...

Czech hockey legend Jaromír Jágr turns 50

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Meteorologists predict long bout of above-average temperatures

The Czech government plans to cut the old-age pensions of senior communist-era secret police officers. While the idea is welcomed by some, calls have also been made to do more for the victims of the former regime, many of whom are on very low pensio...

Anti-drug coordinator: Pandemic increasing additions of all kinds

Vaccination certificate expires for tens of thousands without booster shot

MP Farský vacates seat in lower house

Babiš asks MPs not to strip him of his immunity

First part of US military convoy to pass through Czechia on Tuesday

Monday saw coronavirus cases continue to fall

Czech hockey legend Jaromír Jágr’s face to be depicted on special banknote

Czechia ready to take in refugees in case of Ukraine-Russia conflict

Czech embassy and consulate in Ukraine to continue to operate

Further confirmation that prices in the Czech Republic are rocketing came with the news on Monday that inflation reached 9.9 percent in January, following the sharpest month-on-month jump ever seen in the country. I discussed the inflation situation...

Health insurers warn they will raise rates if state does not increase contributions next year

TSK to spend CZK 2.1 billion on Prague infrastructure this year

In view of the escalating threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs has withdrawn its diplomats’ families from the country. While the embassy in Kyiv continues to operate for the time being, the ministry has al...

PPF Group buys 100 percent stake in RTL Hrvatska TV station

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The biggest Czech cross-country skiing event, Jizerská 50, took place on Sunday. But there is more to the event than the main race – there are also shorter courses, including one for historical skiers.  

Regional governor criticizes previous government’s Turow mine deal

Statisticians: Inflation in Czechia exceeded eurozone average in January

Czech Airlines to continue flying to Kyiv for time being

Ivo Kahánek is one of the most successful Czech pianists of his generation, performing with top domestic orchestras and regularly appearing at some of the world’s top classical venues. Last year the 42-year-old won acclaim for the mammoth Dvořá...

Czech Interior Ministry launches audit at Prague Castle over shredded intelligence report

Covid: Sunday sees lowest increase in cases in five weeks

Epidemiologist: face mask requirement could be gradually lifted as of mid-March

Czech President Miloš Zeman congratulates his German counterpart on re-election

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FM: Czech Embassy in Kyiv and the Consulate in Lvov will continue to operate

Ninth annual Cirkopolis festival kicks off in Prague

Norway’s Andreas Nygaard wins Jizerská padesátka

Covid cases dropping for five days in succession

Banjo playing Ivan Mládek is likely to be the first image that comes into a Czech’s mind when talking about funny songs to play by the camp fire. Mládek has been writing, singing and performing songs for close to six decades now and is one of t...

On the occasion of World Radio Day, Radio Prague International is updating its signature jingle.

Czechoslovakia was officially connected to the Internet on February 13, 1992 at an event hosted by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague-Dejvice. The first ever connection had a speed of 19.2 kilobits per ...

Czechs defeat Russia in men’s Olympic hockey tournament

Czech Foreign Ministry warns against travel to Ukraine and Belarus

US military convoy to pass through Czechia on Tuesday

Quarantine after risk contact scrapped as of February 19

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Record number of tourists visited Giant Mountains summits last year

Digitally restored version of Jiří Menzel’s Larks on Strings to premier in Berlin

Andrej Babiš re-elected chairman of ANO Party 

Covid epidemic continues to slow down in Czechia

Prague is known as one of the culture capitals of Central Europe and Czechs have a long tradition of musical education. One of the people that prove this heritage is still alive and well is Ian Mikyska, an up-and-coming composer who is pushing the b...

Ruling coalition prepares to override Senate’s veto of Pandemic Law

A team of three artists from Liberec have painted a unique picture with which they hope to support the North Bohemian city’s efforts to be selected as the European City of Culture in 2028. The 3x2.2m art piece was the result of a non-stop 124 hour...

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January 2022 was unseasonably warm in Czech Republic

European Data Portal: Czech Republic has ninth most advanced economy in EU

Martina Sáblíková has secured another medal for the Czech Republic at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. On Thursday, the Czech speed skating sensation won the bronze in the women’s 5,000 meter race. It is already the seventh Olympic medal for S...

Covid numbers continue to drop

Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation’s property claims rejected by Czech court

While the skiing season in the Czech Republic is in full swing, sporting gear retailers across the country are struggling with a shortage of cross country skis and boots. In the face of a huge demand, orders have been delayed by several months, Czec...

Ester Ledecka fifth in super G

PM says Senate’s rejection of Pandemic Law “important feedback“

Senate rejects proposed amendment to Pandemic Law

Speed-skater Martina Sáblíková wins bronze in Beijing

The Czech government has approved a draft state budget for 2022 that envisages a considerably lower deficit than that proposed by their predecessors.

This February marks one hundred years since the invention of polarography, a pioneering method analysing substances in solutions, developed by Czech chemist Jaroslav Heyrovský. More than thirty years after his discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Pr...

From this Thursday, people in the Czech Republic no longer have to provide a vaccine certificate or a certificate of having recovered from Covid-19 in order to enter restaurants, hotels, mass events or various types of services. The measure was canc...

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EC forecast for Czechia: economic growth to reach 4.4 percent

Steep rise in number of children suffering from anxiety and depression

Covid cases dropping, but number of hospitalized rising

Senate debating Pandemic Law

Caritas Czech Republic, the biggest non-governmental provider of social and health services in the country, also has humanitarian aid projects in many countries of the world. With help from the Czech Development Agency, it built and equipped the fir...

Government increases budget for Czechia's EU presidency in 2022

People in Czechia no longer required to show Covid certificates

Czech ice hockey team loses to Denmark in first Olympic match

PM Fiala: Most anti-Covid measures to end starting March 1

Government re-appoints Michal Koudelka head of counterintelligence service

Number of seated spectators at mass events to remain limited to 1,000

Government approves 2022 draft state budget

Artists have handed down the secrets of their work to younger generations for centuries. Sadly, this is not always the case and the unique artwork leaves the scene with its maker. Glass master Zdeněk Drobný, who single-handedly created unique pear...

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2021 tourism numbers down by half compared to pre-Covid period

Covid 19: incidence number drops below 2,000

Czech snowboarder Vendula Hopjáková sustains injury in Olympic race

Jiří Menzel’s classic film Larks on a String, about victims of communism forced to work in a huge scrapyard, was completed in 1969. However it was then put on a blacklist by the regime, where it remained until 1990 – when it won the Golden Bea...

Válek confirms state will scrap rise in health insurance payments

Satoranský again switches NBA clubs

Police investigate interior minister over actions while town mayor

Ester Ledecká won the Czech Republic’s first gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games on Tuesday after dominating the Women's snowboard parallel giant slalom. It is the third Olympic gold medal overall for the 26-year-old, who also won...

Women’s ice hockey team to face US in knockout stages in Beijing

Dropping of Covid cert requirement postponed by day

Lipavský: Joint visit expression of support for Ukraine’s independence

Over 35,000 new Covid case registered Monday

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Czech unemployment rises slightly to 3.6 percent

Czech composer Tomáš Kympl has marked his third victory in the UK Songwriting Contest. In 2021 he won the Electronic and Dance Music category with his composition Wifi, which is part of his album Kernel Panic, released last June.

Over 7,000 register for Jizerska 50 race

Ester Ledecka wins in Beijing for first Czech gold

Czech biathlete Markéta Davidová misses out on medal in Bejing

The number of Czech women who are alcoholics is growing. According to research conducted by the Addictology Clinic of the General University Hospital in Prague, Czech women drink on average six litres of pure alcohol a year. The ratio of female drin...

Colorful ice falls can be seen every year at Pulčín, close to the Wallachian village of Francova Lhota, during the period when frosts and thaws alternate. Icicles appear in fissures or overhangs and are usually at their best at the turn of Februar...

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High wind and snow warning extended over Monday

Pensions to rise in June due to inflation

“Dry February” campaign underway

Government ministers visiting villages devastated by 2021 tornado

Czech foreign minister visits Ukraine in show of solidarity

Michal Krecul, today aged 98, was a Gulag survivor, decorated Czechoslovak WWII soldier and later political prisoner who left for the West in 1968. A new study by a Czech historian finds that he also went unpunished for his part in the killing of 10...

The Czech minister of foreign affairs has started a two-day visit to Ukraine intended to show support for the Kyiv government in the face of strong Russian pressure. Jan Lipavský and his Slovak and Austrian counterparts are also travelling to the D...

e15: Czech banks substantially increased their earnings in 2021

Sunday’s coronavirus cases lowest in three weeks

Ukraine’s foreign minister accuses Czech president of seeking to damage relations between the two countries

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Prague Castle sues psychiatrist over her speculation on president’s health

Czech President condemns symbolic use of gallows, says he would sign pandemic law amendment

Occupation wins Czech Film Critics award for best film of 2021

Saturday sees coronavirus cases hit new weekend record

Hlávka Bridge, the first concrete bridge across the Vltava in Prague, was opened 110 years ago.

Music lovers asked to name the greatest Czech composers will likely answer - Dvořák, Smetana, Janáček, Suk, Martinů ,but the chances are, they may not think of Vítězslav Novák. A pupil of Dvořák's, he was one of the most distinguished comp...

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