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Friday sees lowest weekday Covid tally since September

Covid measures had CZK 306 billion impact on Czech economy in 2021

Prague to strip Red Army commander Konev of honorary citizenship

Jan Patočka is regarded as perhaps the greatest Czech philosopher of the 20th century. A new book makes several of his writings available in English for the first time.

Prague 8 has chosen the winner of a public tender for a memorial to Jindřiška Nováková, the 14-year old “girl with the bike” whose family hid the paratroopers that assassinated high-ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich. The memorial will be in the...

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Prague can start building new bridge across Vltava River

The Czech National Bank (ČNB) has chosen to raise interest rates by 0.75 percentage points to 5.75 percent, the highest rate since 1999. The hike is also slightly higher than most analysts expected and some have even warned of a stagflation effect ...

After a six-year renovation, the main hall of the Spring Colonnade in Karlovy Vary reopened to the public. The Functionalist structure is located right in the heart of the picturesque spa town and houses its warmest and most popular spring, called V...

People in Need collection for Ukraine reaches CZK 1.7 billion

Slavia Prague punished over fans’ behaviour during Feyernoord tie

Interior minister: large accommodation facilities to be available for Roma refugees from Ukraine within days

Reuters: EC offers Czechia exemption from Russian oil embargo until mid 2024

The Czech Republic is due to take up the rotating presidency of the European Council in July of this year. Alongside preparations for the daunting tasks ahead at a difficult time for Europe and the world at large, there are plans for a series of cul...

PM Fiala: Czech EU presidency to focus on energy security

Czech ice hockey team wins first game of Swedish Games

Olaf Scholz: Germany to help Czechia replace equipment provided to Ukraine

Czech National Bank raises main interest rate to 5.75 percent, highest level since 1999

Czechia to provide additional EUR 18 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine

The Czech Republic is one of the countries that have called for a two-to-three-year transition period from the EU’s plan to ban Russian oil imports. Within this timeframe, the government hopes to enlarge alternate delivery systems such as the TAL ...

The head of the Czech Confederation of Trade Unions, Josef Středula, has threatened a general strike or even a blockade of the capital if his demands to increase the minimum wage and the frozen salaries of civil servants are not met. But economists...

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Bohéma is the name of a new Prague shop selling T-shirts and other items featuring classic Czech images, from Sokol gymnasts to writer Karel Čapek. The company, previously online only, has opened the outlet in a building associated with major figu...

Prague Uprising recalled on 77th anniversary at Czech Radio building

Czech PM Fiala pays tribute to Nazi victims at Berlin’s Plötzensee prison

Over 326,750 Ukrainian refugees now have special visas

Prague part of Febiofest closes with award ceremony

As part of a number of educational reforms, the government has proposed making the learning of a second foreign language in Czech primary schools voluntary for students rather than compulsory as it is at present, sparking criticism, controversy and ...

Annual celebrations of anniversary of end of WWII start in Plzeň

Respirators no longer required at Czech hospitals from Thursday

The High Court in Prague has decided to reopen the cases of General Jan Syrový and Rudolf Beran, who served as prime ministers during Czechoslovakia’s tumultuous turn from First Republic to occupied Nazi protectorate. The two men were originally ...

Beskids study finds lynxes and wolves but no sign of bears

The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has been around for more than two decades – and the Czech language version is not far behind, celebrating its 20th anniversary on Tuesday. We take a look at its humble beginnings, and where it’s got to today.

The head of Mšecké Žehrovice is one of the best known surviving pieces of Celtic art not just in the Czech Republic, but in the whole of Europe. Discovered during the Second World War, it took years before its existence was unveiled to the world ...

Blažek to discuss war crimes in Ukraine at ICC in Hague

Respirators in hospitals to end in one week at latest

Industry minister: EU Russia oil ban lacks distribution method in case of shortage

Czech Radio has launched a new fundraising project which aims to provide musical instruments to children of Ukrainian refugees but also to Czech children whose parents don’t have the means to buy them. The project, called If a Thousand Clarinets i...

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Anifilm winner to qualify for Oscars consideration

Opposition MPs’ filibustering prevents debate in lower house

Škoda's operating profit down by a quarter in Q1 2022

Czechs overwhelmingly support humanitarian aid for Ukraine, survey shows

Case of Czechoslovak PMs sentenced for collaborating with Nazis to be reopened

Internationally renowned athletes to compete at this year’s Golden Spike Ostrava

Art collector, patron and founder of the Museum Kampa in Prague, Meda Mládková, died on Tuesday at the age of 102. Mrs. Mládková spent more than half of her life in the United States, where she and her husband established a collection of modern ...

“Things were better under Babiš!” declare billboards that have been popping up around the Czech Republic. ANO’s name does not appear on the ads – depicting people complaining about how they’ve lost out under the Fiala government – and t...

Czechia up 20 places in World Press Freedom Index

Czechia among 10 EU states calling on Brussels to help with refugee funding

Finance Ministry freezes Vítkovice Steel assets

The leading Czech carmaker Skoda Auto has been plagued by production problems in recent years. First because of closures during the Covid pandemic, then due to a lack of components because of the war in Ukraine and most recently because of the stric...

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Eurostat: Unemployment in Czechia lowest in EU

Czech citizen reported missing in Ukraine

Industry Minister: Czechia would support ending Russial oil imports under certain conditions

State budget deficit crosses 100 billion crown mark in April

Art collector, patron Meda Mládková dies at 102

Czechs consume over 84kg of meat per person per year on average, over half of which is pork, according to data from the Czech Statistics Office. However, last year alone, the number of pigs on Czech farms fell by around ten thousand. Farmers blame r...

The Ministry of Industry is looking for ways to speed up the planned construction of a nuclear waste facility in the Czech Republic, which would enable the country to fulfil the EU’s taxonomy plan for using nuclear energy as a clean source. Howeve...

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Brno to donate trams and trolleybuses to Kharkiv

Czech Republic has sent 3 billion crowns worth of military equipment to Ukraine

Interior Ministry issues over 320,000 humanitarian visas to Ukrainian nationals

Central bank revokes Sberbank’s license

President Zeman says that in the past he misjudged Russia but has now changed his view of the Kremlin. The Czech head of state said in an interview that Putin was destroying his own country with the war on Ukraine – and scoffed at suggestions he o...

The night of April 30th, halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, is associated with warding off evil spirits. In the Czech Republic, the occasion is traditionally observed by lighting a bonfire on a hill and burning an effigy of ...

State school-leaving exams begin across Czechia

Czechs win home Games with 4:1 victory over Austria

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Political parties and other groups mark May Day

Number of people hospitalised with Covid lowest since mid-October

Jude Thaddeus Okolo appointed new apostolic nuncio to Czechia

Industry and Trade Minister: Gas storage tanks in Czechia 30 percent full

Czechs defeat Sweden in second match of Czech Hockey Games

Firefighters responded to around ninety witch-burning fires

Gymnast Věra Čáslavská was born on May 3, 1942 and went on to become Czechoslovakia’s most successful Olympian ever.

The late singer-songwritter David Stypka dominated the Anděl Music Awards (the Czech equivalent to a Grammy) handed out at a gala ceremony in Prague’s Veletrzni Palace on Wednesday night.

Czechs mark witch-burning night around country

Miloš Zeman calls on union leader Středula to run for president

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Czechia only candidate so far to replace Russia on UN Human Rights Council

Prague refugee centre processed over 3,750 people on Friday

Josef Středula re-elected as trade union leader

Czech Covid weekly incidence drops below 100

Defence Ministry: Czechia has provided nearly CZK 3 billion in military support to Ukraine

Fiala: Czechia and Poland to pursue further Russia sanctions and support Ukraine’s bid for candidate status

Morawiecki: Czechia and Poland to propose EU funding programme for countries taking in Ukrainian refugees

Many Ukrainian refugees of Roma origin are having trouble finding accommodation in the Czech Republic, amid allegations that Czechia is employing double standards. The interior minister denies racial segregation and announced that accommodation fo...

The Czech Republic’s trade unions are calling for an extraordinary increase in the minimum wage. Speaking at a congress of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions in Prague on Friday, union leader Josef Středula said monthly wages should...

Czech soprano singer Kateřina Kněžíková has received the highly acclaimed BBC Music Magazine’s Vocal Award for 2022 for her album Phydilé. The jury praised the collection of fin de siècle orchestral songs for showcasing the singer’s “ra...

Seznam Zprávy: Prague Orthodox Diocese to fire 40 percent of its employees

Czechia to receive liquefied natural gas supplies from May 1

Fiala: Europe facing more pressing questions than whether Poland is upholding EU rules

Czech U-18s crush Switzerland to reach World Championships semi-finals

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Třinec beats Sparta to win Czech hockey league and complete golden hattrick

Deník N: Czech energy giant ČEZ joins OIL insurance fund

Website of Czech Television hit by cyber attack

Czech economy up by 4.6 percent year-on-year in Q1

President Miloš Zeman again rejects promoting BIS head Koudelka to rank of general

Czechs mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

More than 1,400 people, including several foreign leaders, attended the funeral service for the former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday. Among those present were representatives of the Czech Repu...

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Febiofest film festival gets underway

Nearly 314,600 Ukrainian refugees now have special visas

Experts: minimum decent wage in Czechia should be CZK 33,909

If there were an extreme shortage of natural gas in the Czech Republic supplies would only be maintained to households and critical infrastructure such as hospitals, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade told the Czech News Agency.

In recent days, European universities have been the target of a Russian disinformation campaign claiming that they are expelling Russian students in a wave of Russophobia. Charles University this week categorically denied claims that it was expellin...

The most successful novel to date by leading Czech writer Kateřina Tučková is coming out in English this Sunday. Tracing the story of a community of women in the White Carpathians, The Last Goddess is – characteristically for the author – bas...

Radio Prague International is celebrating its 85th birthday today! We would like to thank all our listeners, readers and folowers for staying with us. As a little present, here is a tour of where we work – the Czech Radio Building on Vinohradská ...

Cases of disinformation over Ukraine uncovered in Czech schools

David Stypka takes three posthumous Anděl awards

Czech online food delivery company Rohlik Group has announced that it registered 53 percent growth within its past fiscal year running from May 2021 to April 2022. The company now has close to a million permanent customers spread over four Central E...

Russia’s decision to suspend gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria has raised concerns about the consequences of a cut in deliveries to this country. Prime Minister Petr Fiala said that while there were no immediate signals that Czechia was at risk ...

Heating chief: Czechs couldn’t fill shortfall if Russia cuts off gas

Zeman backs Poland over Russia gas supply spat

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Almost everyone has heard of the Great Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, the oldest-known of which was built around 2600 BC; most people in the West have heard of England’s Stonehenge, believed to have been constructed somewhere between 3000 BC to 2000 B...