Czechia to receive CZK 680 million from EU to help with Ukrainian refugees

State of Emergency extended until end of June

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Education Ministry pledges CZK 1.8 billion to help 400 disadvantaged schools

This week marks exactly 30 years since the beginning of the first round of voucher privatisations in post-communist Czechoslovakia. The government scheme made it possible for any Czech adult citizen to buy a “voucher book” that contained shares ...

European Commission files lawsuit against Czechia

The Czech government is planning to make changes to legislation covering Ukrainian refugees. This includes a refusal to protect people with EU citizenship, a status shared by many refugees of Roma origin.

Working group to prevent filibustering planned

Finance minister orders review of predecessor’s VAT waiver

Hrabal event at writer’s cottage to take place for 23rd time

Slovácko beat Sparta in Czech cup for first ever trophy

Germany to donate tanks to CR, significant purchase also being discussed

A two-day Czech-African Health Forum began at Prague’s Černín Palace on Wednesday, bringing together representatives of 10 African countries and seven health ministers. Pandemic management, strengthening the healthcare sector, and Czech business...

Prague looks set to get a futuristic new building, designed by internationally renowned Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Representatives of City Hall and the city’s Institute for Planning and Development announced the winner of the interna...

Czech inflation third highest in EU

Prague to host 2023 Radiodays Europe conference

Lipavský hails joint Finland and Sweden NATO application

One of the most important ways in which archaeologists are able to learn about pre-historic cultures and civilisations is by studying the way that they buried their dead. In recent decades this practice has been further improved through the adoption...

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MPs to discuss “refugees’” state of emergency Thursday

Šimon Pánek to be awarded Arnošt Lustig prize

Danish studio wins competition to design Prague’s new philharmonic hall

Over 50,000 refugees from Ukraine have already found work in Czechia

Eurostat: Czechs spend more on premium healthcare

The new exhibition MADe IN CHINA at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague focuses on the work of Chinese dissident artist Badiucao. The show has also made international news, after the city’s Chinese Embassy tried to have it cancelled. I d...

Josef Abrhám, one of the most popular of Czech stage and screen actors, has died at the age of 82. Abrhám starred in a number of the best-loved movies in Czech cinema and was married for many decades to actress Libuše Šafránková, who also had ...

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Czech athlete Zuzana Hejnová announces end of career

Czech PM: Austrian Chancellor to support expansion of TAL pipeline

The US Netflix documentary series Tiger King was released in March 2020 just as most of us were entering Covid lockdown for the first time, and it kept many people happily glued to their TV screens in those first uncertain weeks. The show, with its ...

Czech Foreign Minister slams Hungary’s refusal to back Russian energy ban

Famous Czech actor Josef Abrhám dies aged 82

Czechia to host Qatari Emir on official visit this autumn

Body of Czech man found shot and buried near Kyiv

Justice Minister: Czechia wants to coordinate international war crimes investigation

Defence Ministry honours 39 individuals for fighting Communist dictatorship

Minister unveils state plan for gas reserve purchases

Open House Prague festival pays tribute to Slovene architect Jože Plečnik

After a four-year search for a new Prague archbishop, the Vatican announced that the post would be filled by Jan Graubner, the current archbishop of Olomouc. But given the fact that Mr Graubner turns 75 next year, the age at which church dignitaries...

The Czech Republic’s banks and building societies provided new mortgage loans to the tune of CZK 17.5 billion in April, which was a fall of 40 percent on the previous month and of 60 percent on April 2021.

Police raid state’s nuclear waste storage agency

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Film director David Ondříček is currently shooting a TV series about the fascinating Czech Cold War figure Josef Hasil. His exploits smuggling defectors to the West led to the nickname “king of Šumava”.

Prague Spring legend Marta Kubišová set to become honorary Prague citizen

European Commission lowers growth forecast for Czech economy

German metal band Rammstein have begun a European tour with two shows at Prague’s Letňany, one on Sunday, the other planned for Monday.

Agricultural producer prices see sharpest rise in 30 years

When Dana Huňátová joined Czechoslovakia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in late 1989 she literally came across a red telephone to Moscow. As head of office of new minister Jiří Dienstbier she was closely involved in the deep overhaul of the mi...

Czechs lose to Sweden in their second Group B game in Tampere

Reconstruction of Barrandov Bridge starts on Monday

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Interior minister: Czechia currently hosting around 200,000 refugees

František Kmoch, conductor and famous composer of brass music, composed over 230 marching and dance pieces, which are still played at village balls and events today.

Rammstein to perform in Prague tonight

Kateřina Konečná reelected head of Communist Party

“Where Is Anne Frank?” by Ari Folman wins main prize at Anifilm

Commemorative ceremony marks 77th anniversary of liberation of Terezín ghetto

Foreign Minister: Czechia would back Finland and Sweden’s admission to NATO

Anny Ondra, the lively blonde with the big eyes, was loved by audiences all over Europe. She also charmed German boxer Max Schmeling, whom she later married.

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Czechs beat Great Britain 5:1 in Group B game of IIHF Hockey World Championships

Tent city for refugees in Troja filling up

Two-thirds of Czech employees counting on pay rise this year

Close to 36,000 refugees from Ukraine have already found work in Czechia

Prague Castle opens to public after two-year Covid break

Reconstruction of Prague’s Barrandov Bridge to begin on Monday

Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský to attend informal NATO meeting in Berlin

Helping Zambian farmers cope with climate change, tackling drinking water problems in Peru, opening an eye-clinic in Cambodia or strengthening the tourist potential of Georgia – those are just some of the projects that the Czech Republic has under...

The longest suspension bridge in the world is opening up in the Czech Republic this Friday. At 721 metres in length, the bridge is nearly a third longer than the previous title holder and offers magnificent views of the surrounding mountain range th...

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Charles Bridge to light up in Ukrainian colours to mark International Day of Light

Over the last week there have been reports of Ukrainian Roma refugees sleeping at Prague’s Main Train Station, sometimes for up to 10 days, as they wait to be granted temporary protection. As a stopgap solution, a tent city has been erected in the...

One of the Czech items on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List is the craft of indigo dyeing with block printing, known as modrotisk. The tradition dates back to the 18th century, but today there are only two workshops in the entire country ...

World’s longest suspension bridge to open in Moravia on Friday

Jan Graubner to become new Prague Archbishop

Czech singer Dominika Hašková reaches final of Eurovision with Lights Off

Czechia plans to invite Ukrainian President Zelensky to Prague summit

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