Unemployment fell to 3.2 percent in May

Czech PM meets with President Macron in Paris

Football: Tecl to replace Jankto in national squad ahead of Portugal and Spain games

Health Minister: Covid booster shots will be for free this autumn

Public sector union criticises government salary plan, saying it won’t cover inflation

Hungarian President on state visit to Prague

This weekend, the T.G. Masaryk School in Chicago celebrated its 100th year of existence. The institution was established in Chicago’s suburb of Cicero in 1921, when tens of thousands of Czech immigrants already lived in the city. Today, it’s the...

Czech Republic sends further humanitarian aid to Ukraine

The legendary French high-speed TGV train, which set a speed record of 380 km/h in 1981, has arrived in the Czech Republic where it will be on display to the public in Prague, Brno, Jihlava, and Ústí nad Labem until June 9. Its loan from France fo...

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Opposition ANO party comes in first in Median spring poll

Stork’s Nest court case against former PM Babiš to start on September 12

Statisticians: 94 percent of Czech employees saw fall in real wages this year

Legendary TGV train arrives in Czechia

Czech prime minister to hold talks with President Macron in Paris

A string of NGOs has written an open letter to City Hall calling for the extension of a programme of renting rooms for homeless people at four Prague hotels and hostels. Set up during the coronavirus pandemic, it has served several hundred people �...

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Central bank board likely to increase bases rate again later this month

The Khamoro festival of Romany culture, named after the Romany word for sunshine, filled the streets of Prague with vibrant colours, music and dancing, drawing tourists and Prague residents alike.

Public funeral service held for hugely popular actor Josef Abrhám

Supreme Audit Office slams Czech authorities for poor waste disposal

Czech economic diplomats meeting in Prague

President Zeman: Putin should be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine

After previously saying he would say in September whether he will stand in presidential elections early next year, Andrej Babiš now says he would only announce “at the last moment”. Why this evident change of strategy? And will his team be sati...

Andrej Babiš refusing to confirm presidential candidacy just yet

Czech foreign minister holds online talks with Indian counterpart

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Economists: Inflation devalued wages by 3.7 percent in first quarter

Prague hotels will no longer provide emergency shelter for homeless people

Rare ten-ducat coin sells for ten million crowns

Eric Clapton performing in Prague tonight

New app to help Sudeten Germans search for their ancestors

Ukrainian Mothers’ March in Brno

The vote on June 5-6, 1992 decided the fate of Czechoslovakia.

Renowned Czech violin virtuoso Václav Hudeček is due to celebrate his 70th birthday this Tuesday June 7th. We take a brief look back at his life and work.

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Gaby Khazalová first Czech to win the European Journalism Award

Two new Omicron subvariants confirmed in Czechia

Lucie Havlíčková claims her first Grand Slam junior title

Martin Klíma was a student leader of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, helping organise the gathering in November 1989 that sparked the fall of communism, where he delivered a key speech.

77th Prague Spring Music Festival closes with Antonín Dvořák's Sixth Symphony in D major

Finance ministry proposing 295 billion crown deficit in 2023

Andrej Babiš currently strongest candidate in 2023 presidential race

  Prague Jewish Community has launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance a monument made of fragments of Jewish tombstones removed from the city’s pavements. The tombstones from derelict Jewish cemeteries were used under Communism to repair pede...

EC orders investigation into Czech state aid for digital terrestrial television operators

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Meteorologists issue storm warning for Friday night

Clothing brands leaving the Czech market

Brno building tent city for Romany refugees

Czech and Polish cabinets discuss aid to Ukraine, energy security in Prague

Řehka to become army chief after last formal hurdle cleared

June 3 marks 100 days since Russia unleashed a war in Ukraine. We look back at what the Czech Republic has done to help the war-torn country.     

Czechs beat Swiss in Nations League campaign opener

Joint Czech-Polish government meetings for Prague

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MPs pass bill to ensure traders store minimum level of gas

Karel Čapek’s War with the Newts, a darkly humorous dystopia about a super-breed of amphibians trying to conquer the world, was published more than 80 years ago. This week, a new ‘surf-rock audio drama’, inspired by Čapek’s pioneering scie...

Earlier this week, part of Prague’s Švanda Theatre ensemble embarked on a two-week tour of the Unites States. In addition to two productions representing contemporary Czech drama, the Smíchov theatre group will also present a brand new theatrica...

Vaclík to win 50th cap in Switzerland game

The decision of Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib to close the capital’s centre for Ukrainian refugees in mid-June, due to overload, has elicited sharp criticism from regional governors. Many have pointed out that the closure of the country’s busiest r...

Lipavský backs Sweden and Finland’s efforts to join in Nato in Stockholm

Prague hit by massive electricity blackout

Government approves CZK 5000 one-off payment for children under 18

Two dead in Alzheimer's Centre blaze

Sixth case of monkeypox in the Czech Republic confirmed

An estimated 350,000 people have fled Ukraine for the Czech Republic over the past three months. Among the many refugees are also some twenty students from Kyiv’s Municipal Academy of Performing and Circus Arts. They arrived just days after Russia...

Fans of history and jewellery may appreciate the exhibition “Czech crown jewels that you can reach” (České Korunovační klenoty na dosah), which is opening at Sychrov Castle in Northern Bohemia this Wednesday. The traveling exhibition feature...

Prague to close its refugee centre in Vysočany on 15 June

The Czech Republic’s six-month presidency of the EU gets underway in exactly one month’s time. In parallel the country’s international network of Czech Centres will be running a whole host of events in the second half of 2022, with the motto V...

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Prime Minister Petr Fiala to meet Pope Francis in Vatican next week

Prague Castle is not only the face of today’s picturesque Czech capital, but also an important archaeological site whose origins stretch back into prehistory. The castle hill and its surroundings still have much to unveil, archaeologists say. In f...

Refugees can continue to use Prague public transport for free until 12 June

Forbes: most influential Czech woman is EC Vice-President Věra Jourová

The Ministry of Culture is looking into a complaint regarding the 2018 reconstruction of Prague’s famous astronomical clock. Specifically the complaint targets the copy of the original calendar on the Old Town Clock by Josef Mánes. According to M...

Economist Danuše Nerudová announces candidacy for Czech president

Lower House approves stricter measures for refugees

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The Czech Republic was the last EU country to bring in a comprehensive smoking ban. A ban on smoking in public places such as restaurants, bars, cafes, pubs, and bus stops came into effect in the Czech Republic on May 31 2017 – happily coinciding ...

Karlovy Vary festival to honour late artistic director Eva Zaoralová

Record amount of forest trees planted in Czechia last year

After hours of struggling to resolve their differences, EU leaders on Monday agreed to block more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports to member states in a deal that will cut off a huge source of financing for Russia’s war machine. The Czech Re...

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Monthly siren test to go off on Wednesday after three-month break

Czech household debts fall in April, first drop since 2016

Russian ambassador summoned over use of real estate

An estimated 350,000 people have fled Ukraine for the Czech Republic over the past three months. Among the many refugees are also some twenty students from Kyiv’s Municipal Academy of Performing and Circus Arts. They arrived just days after Russia...

With just over a month until the 56th edition of the region’s biggest cinema event, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has just announced its main programme. Two Czechs works – Borders of Love and The Word – will be in the running fo...

Czech PM praises EU agreement on Russian oil embargo

Statisticians: Czech economy grew by 4.8 percent in first quarter of 2022

Regulator proposes changes on Czech mobile phone market

Cyber watchdog issues warning against selected smart electricity metres

VZP: Refugee influx could raise healthcare expenses by CZK 6.9 billion

Study: Number of regular drinkers declined in Czech Republic

Bohumil Kubišta’s painting Old Prague Motif was sold on Sunday at auction for CZK 123.6 million, the most a painting has ever sold for at a Czech art auction. It was also almost five times the starting price of CZK 25 million, which itself would ...

The Czech Republic came third at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Finland on Sunday. A storming comeback win over the United States gave the Czechs their first medal at a major tournament in 10 long years – bronze that players say feels like g...

Poland could construct second FSRU amid Czech and Slovak interest

Second tent town for Ukrainian refugees being constructed in Prague

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A team of scientists from the Global Change Research Institute in Brno has created a digital map of the Dyje river basin. With the help of the digitized model they can simulate changes to the basin triggered by Nature and human activity, helping to ...

Prague hosted NATO intelligence chiefs meeting

The EU and Ukrainian flags appeared side by side on Prague’s Legion Bridge at the weekend in a show of support for Ukraine’s EU membership bid.  

Couple suspected of espionage over link to Russian agents

This outstanding Czech artist, associated with his native Vysočina and France, did not receive full recognition until after the fall of Communism. Until then, he worked in relative obscurity, with his poems being published mainly abroad and via sam...

Czech footballers assemble before four Nations League games

Kubišta’s Old Prague Motif sets Czech auction record with CZK 123 million sale

Czechs beat US in bronze game at hockey worlds

Group weighing changes in Czech lower house meeting next week

Ex-MP facing rape charge reportedly attempts suicide

Khamoro festival of Romany culture starts in Prague

Number of Ukrainians with temporary protection status nears 360,000

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Czechs to face US in third place game at hockey worlds

The annual Leoš Janáček International Music Festival will traditionally launch by a performance of the composer’s Sinfonietta. Meanwhile, Richard Strauss’ famous Oboe Concerto will be performed by the Czech Republic’s “oboe ambassador” ...

Jan Kubiš Day held at Panenské Břežany

Minister: Govt planning discount to help Czechs cope with energy prices

Okamura party MEP plans presidential run

Nine-hundred more Ukrainians receive temporary protection

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Exhibition highlights lives of prisoners forced to mine uranium