Defense Ministry to build new logistics base at Ostrava Mošnov Airport

Government approves increase in pensions to cover inflation

The Assasination (Atentát) is a unique 1964 depiction of the killing of acting Reichsprotector Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak parachutists during World War II. It has been newly digitised by the Czech National Film Archive (NFA) and is being scr...

The authorities are now creating a second tent city in Prague, in the Malešice district. It will handle some of the hundreds of Ukrainian refugees of Roma origin – many also citizens of Hungary – who have been sleeping at the Main Train Station...

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Trade union leaders threatening to strike if no deal on higher wages in public sector

State Health Institute reports another suspected case of monkeypox

Beer prices expected to rise sharply

Jaromír Jágr uninjured after car crash in Prague

The Czech state began to form around the 9th century AD. This process was crucially influenced by the Přemyslids, Bohemia’s ruling dynasty which had control over Czech territory for more than 400 years. But what do we actually know about this per...

Half of Zeman’s economic advisors quit

Czechs to face Germany at hockey worlds after Finland defeat

Zeman turns down 11 requests from Czechs wishing to fight for Ukraine

Prague gets second tent town in Malešice district

Prague mayor calls for limiting of refugee benefits if capacity full

First case of monkeypox detected in Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is no Chicago or New York, that’s for sure – its tallest building, the N Tower (formerly known as the AZ Tower) in Brno only reaches a less-than-impressive 111 metres. But the eastern city of Ostrava is set to become the new r...

Thanks to contracts signed under the communist regime, the Russian Embassy received a vast amount of real estate in Prague, Karlovy Vary and other Czech cities free of charge to be used for diplomatic purposes. With just six Russian diplomats left i...

Block on Czech disinformation sites to be lifted Wednesday

Milan Reindl, a former English teacher from a small town of Sušice, is the only Czech working as a model designer at the Danish toy giant LEGO. He only fell for the LEGO bricks in his mid-twenties and just a few years later, he landed a dream job i...

Thirteen years after being destroyed by fire, the Industrial Palace at Prague’s Exhibition Grounds is now undergoing an extensive reconstruction. As part of the works, which started about two months ago, restorers have now began to repair the mass...

Zeman office could face fine over shredding of classified documents

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Czech apartment prices rise by one-fifth y-o-y in first quarter

Olga Havel prize awarded to Dita Horochovská for project which brings smart home technology to disabled persons

Dlouhý quits team of president Zeman’s ecomnomic advisors

Czech hockey team secures spot in quarter-finals of 2022 Ice Hockey World Championship

The majority of Ukrainian refugee children who have arrived in the country in recent months have not yet entered the Czech education system, officials said on Monday. However, a major intake is likely to occur after the summer holidays, says the edu...

The successful assassination of high-ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak soldiers in Prague, code-named Operation Anthropoid, is one of Czechia’s proudest historical moments. This May 27 will be the 80th anniversary of the event, which ...

Foreign minister sets up working group to look into the use of real estate owned by Russian Embassy

Prime Minister Petr Fiala says that the Czech Republic now aims to spend 2 percent of its GDP on defence by 2024, one year earlier than pledged in the government’s manifesto. The statement was made ahead of a NATO summit in Madrid in June. I asked...

Waiting time for surgical operations doubles as a result of pandemic pile-up

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Jiří Václav Hampl, co-author of the Lidice children’s memorial, dies at 92

Meteorologists issue torrential rain warning

Website of Road and Rail Directorate partially restored after massive cyberattack

Hundreds of Ukrainians dressed in national costumes marched through Prague at the weekend to express their gratitude for the country’s support in the war against Russia.  

No monkeypox cases in the Czech Republic to date

Central bank governor indicates new interest rate hike likely in June

Czechia’s current emergency food reserves would last for 1.3 days

Martin Fuksa wins gold in 1,000m at Canoe Sprint World Championships

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Nearly 350,780 Ukrainian refugees now have special visas

Electricity supplies fully restored after Friday night’s windstorm

ZUŠ Open festival to showcase best of Czech primary art schools

Czech Republic beat Norway 4:1 at World Ice Hockey Championships

The Prague Spring International Music Festival is now in full swing in the capital, delivering dozens of concerts and set to conclude on June 3. For decades the country’s top classical music event has opened with Bedřich Smetana’s Má vlast, or...

The first unique Leksell Gamma Knife to be introduced in the Czech Republic was bought by the Charter 77 foundation 30 years ago.

PM Fiala: Czechia aims to reach two-percent defence spending target by 2024

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Over 17,000 take part in 55th Prague Prčice march

Martin Fuksa wins gold in 500m at Canoe Sprint World Championships

Legendary Czech basketball player Jiří Zídek dies aged 78

Some 100 buildings open to public for Open House Prague

Windstorm sweeps across Czechia

Cyber Agency says attack on Czech state’s Road and Motorway Directorate encoded data

Czech and Slovak presidents to attend Anthropoid commemoration next Friday

German Defence Ministry provides further details on tank donation to Czechia

Except for a niche interest group, most people have not heard of the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, which developed in the late 2000s at Oxford University and got its name in 2011. But it is gaining increasing visibility, and not only in the Engl...

Summer could see Prague host music event in support of Ukraine’s European aspirations

For many years, Ostrava has been associated with coal mining and steel production and was not exactly regarded as a tourist destination. But over the past three decades, the city has undergone a huge transformation, turning its industrial past to it...

A new museum opened this week in Prague’s Kotva department store, depicting the way of life in 1970s and ‘80s Czechoslovakia. Called Retro Museum Prague, it takes the visitors through a typical communist-style apartment but also explores the des...

Film festival pays tribute to director Miloš Forman in his home town

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PM: State considering dividing up energy giant ČEZ

Czech household deposits fell by CZK 26 billion in March

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