Czech industry declined by 0.3 percent in February

Chamber of Deputies votes to condemn the murder of civilians in Bucha as a war crime

Prague public transport company planning to buy 140 hybrid buses

Leading Czech art and architecture expert Jiří Ševčík has died

Following Viktor Orbán’s landslide victory in the Hungarian parliamentary elections this Sunday, some politicians and experts have questioned future cooperation within the Visegrad group, comprising the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungar...

Czechia may have sent Ukraine T-72 tanks and armoured personnel carriers

In recent weeks the Czech Republic has been providing essential services to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees. Now many are entering the labour force, but what impact will that have? And how best can they be integrated? I discussed this wi...

Woman causes CZK 3 million in damages after setting off fire alarm in National Museum

Labour Minister: 12,600 Ukrainian refugees have found work in Czechia since invasion started

List of banned news sites since Russia’s Ukraine invasion made public

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Union: Most final year high-school students not ready for exams

Minister wants to designate agriculture and food production sectors as critical infrastracture

Prague street next to Russian Embassy renamed to “Ukranian heroes” street

Czech animated films have enjoyed international popularity and acclaim that far outstrips what you might expect from a small country of 10 million people. A current Prague exhibition aims to show the public that Czech animation is still alive and we...

Monday Covid cases one-quarter down on week earlier

Rakušan: Govt. readying plan to integrate up to half million Ukrainians

260,000 Ukrainians now have special visas but numbers slowing

A new exhibition focusing on Slovene architect Jože Plečnik has opened at Prague Castle, the Czech capital’s iconic landmark that Plečnik himself had a big role in reconstructing. The exhibit, located both within the Old Palace building and the...

A fundraising concert on Prague’s Letná Plain called “Together for Ukraine” attracted over 5,000 people on Sunday. Those who attended could donate money or bring material aid, while Ukrainian refugees were able to take advantage of an associa...

Fiala congratulates Orban, calls for engagement against Russia

The Czech Republic is bracing for a possible disruption in gas imports from Russia, as Moscow stands firm on its demand for payments in roubles. According to the Minister of Industry and Trade, Josef Síkela, Czech government is preparing for all sc...

A Czech Army contingent headed for Slovakia on Monday where they will lead a multi-national battlegroup of alliance forces bolstering NATO’s Eastern Flank. The Czech troops will be joined by air and ground forces from five other allied states and ...

Fiala cancels Berlin trip after week out with Covid

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Seznam owner sending CZK 100 million to Ukraine after Bucha footage

Krejčíková back at number two in world rankings

Austrian and Slovak heads of Parliament visiting Prague this Monday

Czech army contingent leaves for Slovakia where it will lead NATO battlegroup

Interior Minister opens up about costs of refugee crisis

Czech diplomats and politicians strongly condemn Russia’s alleged killing of civilans in Ukraine

Minister: Gas deliveries to Czechia would not be affected if Russia gas gets cut

Pandemic: Hospitalisations at their lowest since October

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Prague’s Letná to host fundraising concert for Ukraine on Sunday

Man charged with murder folowing Thursday’s machete attack

Zdeněk Liška is regarded as the greatest ever writer of Czech film music, not only for the scope of his oeuvre but also for his distinctive approach to composition. Liška’s work accompanies 160 feature films as well as countless shorts and TV p...

Painter Emil Filla (1882–1953) is one of the most popular artists sought by Czech art collectors. The 15 most expensive Czech paintings include several of his works and their value continues to grow.

Kenyans take first prize at post-Covid Prague half marathon

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Media: Klaus Zellmer to become new head of Škoda Auto

Foreign Minister Lipavský sets up personal cabinet

Czech association wants to add Czech beer culture to UNESCO list

Education minister suggests giving teachers protected persons status

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the daring assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the governor of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia. Operation Anthropoid was one of the most successful acts of anti-Nazi resistance in Europe during the Second Wo...

Prominent psychiatrist accused of 29 cases of rape and blackmail

Starting this Friday, buying a home in the Czech Republic will become even more difficult than it was until now, with stricter rules set by the Czech National Bank for housing loans coming into force. According to analysts, up to 10 percent of peopl...

Fusion of antivirus companies Norton and Avast delayed

“Child aggressiveness growing”, says Education Minister after machete attack

The great Czech artist and illustrator Jiří Šalamoun has died at the age of 86. Šalamoun was best known for Maxipes Fík, a cartoon character loved by several generations, and also produced classic book covers and other notable designs.

A team of experts have started to reconstruct one of the four bone pyramids from the famous 14th century ossuary near the town of Kutná Hora. If everything goes according to plan, the first bell-shaped mound, made of hundreds of thousands of bones ...

European Commission: EU funds will be used to help with refugee crisis

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Trade Minister: Gas deliveries stable, EU will not pay Russia in roubles

Police investigating top civil servants in connection to Agriculture Ministry IT tender

Film incentives expected to generate up to CZK 9 billion in Czechia this year

Czech Republic’s public debt rose to nearly 42 percent in 2021

Many expats living in the Czech Republic are considering buying a property in the country, but for a non-native speaker and foreign national this may sometimes feel like a challenge. To find out more about the most common challenges expats face in t...

Czech Army planes start monitoring Baltic airspace as part of NATO mission

Jiří Šalamoun, Maxipes Fík illustrator, dies at 86

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Reconstructed “bone pyramid” to return to Kutná Hory ossuary

British car index: Best cars are made in Czechia

Czechs propose Ukrainian president Zelensky for Nobel Peace Prize

The Czech government is preparing new legislation, inspired by the so called Magnitsky Act, to better implement its sanctions on Russia, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said on Wednesday. Ministries are also coordinating on creating an updated sancti...

President Zeman’s team are constantly in the news right now. First it was reported that his head of office, Vratislav Mynář, was behind the shredding of classified documents. Now, following the widely condemned issuing of a presidential pardon, ...

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Czech S.A.W.E.R. device wins Innovation Prize at Dubai Expo

Statisticians: 2021 economic growth at 3.3 percent

Movie star Chris Hemsworth supports Czech collection in aid of Ukraine

Some 15,000 Czechs escape foreclosures under debt forgiveness scheme

Kvitová loses in Miami quarter-finals

Head of President’s Office flies secretly to Qatar

Government earmarks billions for education of Ukrainian children

Czechs draw with Wales in soccer friendly

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Government formally declares extension of state of emergency

Government raising living and subsistence minimums

During the 1990s the Czech teaching cohort became more “feminised” as large numbers of male teachers opted to leave the profession and pursue a career elsewhere, according to a new study conducted by the CERGE-EI think-tank at the Czech Academy ...

Prosecutor not proposing jail for Babiš over alleged large-scale fraud

Czech President Miloš Zeman made headlines on Tuesday after pardoning the former head of the Lány Forestry Administration, Miloš Balák. The man, a direct subordinate of the president’s head of office, recently got a three-year sentence and a C...

Duka to serve funeral mass for Albright Wednesday evening

Ministers suggest presidential office budget cut over pardon

Czech Republic expels Russian diplomat

Former head of president’s forest administration gets pardon

There should be 80 hydrogen filling stations in the Czech Republic by 2030 under official government plans. However, this is now being called optimistic.

V4 defence minister meeting cancelled after Czech and Polish officials announce boycott

On Monday Petr Fiala put out a video saying his government’s first 100 days had not been easy, as predicted, but still they had achieved a lot. But how have the Czech prime minister and his ministers really done during the traditional bedding-in p...

MPs approve state of emergency until end of May

Report shows president's office shredded two further classified documents

Czech Air Force sends five jets to guard Lithuanian air space

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An impressive, two-volume book dedicated to Czechoslovakia’s Communist-era architecture has recently been released by Prague’s Bigg Boss publishing house. The ambitious publication, entitled ‘Architecture 58-89’, was written by 30 experts an...

Zelensky thanks Czech Republic for security and humanitarian assistance

Health Ministry wants to broaden mask wearing obligations among children

Czech PM tests positive for coronavirus

Covid indicators continuing downward trend in CR

Kvitová into last eight in Miami but Fruhvirtová out

Fiala to meet Scholz in Berlin next week

Zeman’s office chief personally ordered shredding of sought documents

For the first time ever, the Czech government has a special representative for media and disinformation. His name is Michal Klíma and he has been in charge of several of the country’s leading media outlets in the past. More recently, he has also ...

Czech schools will need more than CZK 5 billion by the end of August to integrate refugees from Ukraine, says Education Minister Petr Gazdík. Despite the unexpected outlay, he still wants to keep his promise to maintain teachers’ salaries at 130 ...

Special school classes for Ukrainian children whose families have fled to the Czech Republic are now running in Prague, Brno and other places. In this report we visit the First Slavic Grammar School, the first such institution in the capital to welc...

Communist Party to cease publishing daily paper

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MPs to debate state of emergency extension Tuesday

Over 236,000 visas granted to Ukrainian refugees

The small pasque flower is a species of plant that has disappeared from many locations in the Czech Republic in recent years. Scientists from a museum in Ústí nad labem protect it by covering it with mesh between March and May, keeping away mouflo...

Third lowest number of new Covid cases recorded this year but positivity rate increases

Czech Fruhvirtová through to fourth round in Miami

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New Covid cases continue to drop

Prague’s Václav Havel Airport to offer flights to 147 destinations

PM Fiala: Czechia has already frozen hundreds of millions of Russian assets

Czechia switches to summertime

Kyiv Independent: Czech volunteers already fighting in Ukraine

Russian ambassador summoned over provocations against Czech embassy’s staff in Moscow

Prague’s most intimate top flight football stadium, Bohemians’ Ďolíček, was officially opened 90 years ago, on 27 March 1932.

Balfolk has its origins in 1970s France and revolves around dancing to folk music rhythms from all over Europe. The music is also influenced by several other genres including jazz, tango, rock or even hip-hop. The aim of Balfok is to create a feelin...

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