Police smash people smuggling ring active in Central and Eastern Europe

Prague mayor threatens to close refugee center if government fails to act

Central bank launches interventions on foreign exchange markets over crown depreciation

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This week saw the establishment of the Ukrainian-Czech Chamber of Commerce. The organisation will support business cooperation between the two countries both during and after the war. To find out what this cooperation may look like, I spoke to the P...

Dominika Hašková, the daughter of the Czech ice hockey legend Dominik Hašek, will represent the Czech Republic at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The 27-year-old singer and her band called We Are Domi won the national round with a song cal...

Fuel prices rising for third week in succession

Rare case of diphtheria registered in Czechia

Czech Banking Association downgrades economic growth estimate for 2022

As Kevin Loo enters life as a family man, he reflects on the family trees in his life and how our roots play an important part of who we are and where we go.

Viktoria Plzeň have been crowned Czech soccer champions for the sixth time in their history. The West Bohemian club have surprised many – even their own coach – with their first title since 2018.

Plzeň become Czech football league champions

Šimáčková Laurenčíková appointed human rights commissioner

77th edition of Prague Spring gets underway

Zeman gives approval to 103 Czechs planning to fight for Ukraine

Aleš Michl was named the new head of the Czech National Bank by President Miloš Zeman on Wednesday. The new governor of the Czech Republic’s central bank will replace the current head Jiří Rusnok from July 1.  During the ceremony, Mr Michl sa...

Zeman to miss Terezín ceremony for time reasons

The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly for the Czech Republic to replace Russia on the Human Rights Council, the United Nations’ leading human rights body. The Czech Republic’s term starts immediately with the council due to meet for a...

Minister: Temporary shelter to ease refugee situation at Prague station

The Prague Spring International Music Festival was first held in 1946, and since 1952 it has traditionally opened on 12th May, the anniversary of the death of renowned Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. With the festival disrupted during the last two ...

Brno’s Tugendhat Villa offers two new tours

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President appoints Aleš Michl central bank chief

The Bronze Age on the territory of the modern day Czech Republic, a period running from roughly 2,300BC to 800 BC, saw the rise and fall of several distinct cultures. Modern archaeology shows that some of them were far more interconnected with the w...

Several Eastern Partnership events to be held during Czechia’s EU presidency

Tourist numbers rose tenfold in first quarter of 2022

Czechia elected to UN Human Rights Council

Interior Minister announces changes to refugee aid

Czech Police sends out online questionnaire to identify witnesses of war crimes in Ukraine

Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexeievich among star line-up at this year’s Book World Prague Festival

We’ve all seen the headlines about how animal agriculture is one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters and contributes to climate change. At the same time, most people are not willing to give up eating meat. How can we solve this conundrum? Entre...

Czech Railways to substantially raise ticket prices this year

International animated film festival Anifilm kicks off in Liberec

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Prague councillors have voted in favour of stripping the late Soviet military commander Ivan Konev, who led the Red Army’s liberation of Prague, of his honorary citizenship. Among the reasons for the move is his repressive role within the Communis...

ECHR rules in favour of Norway in Michálková case

Labour Minister announces pensions raise amid inflation

Interest in gold has skyrocketed in the Czech Republic this year, the business daily Hospodářské noviny reported on Tuesday, saying this reflected a worldwide trend.  

No tax increase, pledges Fiala

Czech and Bulgarian presidents condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Monday Covid tally about 50 percent down on week earlier

April Czech inflation rate highest in almost 30 years

Court returns case of Bečva River poisoning to prosecutor citing numerous shortcomings

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Prague for talks

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A Czech company has started to produce anti-tank barriers for the Ukrainian army made on a special, 3D printer. The firm is also considering providing Ukraine with the printers themselves, which would allow them to produce the barriers right on the ...

Czech government to debate Czech version of Magnitsky Act in June

Top international credit rating agency Fitch has downgraded its outlook for the Czech economy from stable to negative. This has sparked fears it could also cut the Czech Republic’s credit rating – only adding to its mounting economic woes. I dis...

Funeral service for Meda Mládková to take place on May 19

Czechia’s foreign trade balance posts 13.8 billion crown deficit in March

Marshal Konev and astronaut Valentina Tereshkova stripped of honorary citizenship

Every year, people from all over the world come to the Pilsen Freedom Festival, which commemorates the liberation of Pilsen on May 6, 1945. Pilsen was the last place on the European continent that the Allied troops liberated. World War II offi...

Czech jobless rate falls to 3.3 percent

Czech firm to send 3D printers of concrete barriers to Ukraine

Military vehicles parade brings Plzeň war annivesary events to close

Leaders appeal for better treatment of minorities at Lety ceremony

Minister: Divisive pardon could lead to Zeman budget cut

Poll: Only one in five Czechs satisfied with Zeman performance

Kigen and Borecha triumph in 26th Prague Marathon

One of the most famous religious buildings in the Czech Republic is the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord on Prague’s Jiřího z Poděbrad square. Built during the interwar era, it was consecrated in May 1932, and has been...

Ceremony at National Memorial marks anniversary of end of WWII

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Fewer than 250 new Covid cases recorded in CR Saturday

Petr Janda, founder and frontman of legendary Czech rock band Olympic, celebrated his 80th birthday on Monday.

Czech cardiologists expect increase in heart problems

Fitch revises outlook for Czech economy from stable to negative

Rychetský facing legal action over Klaus statements

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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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