STAN returning financial gifts from people charged in corruption case

Clean-up operation underway in wake of massive storms

A festive procession traditionally takes place in Jihlava on the feast day of St. John the Baptist, the town’s patron saint. The program includes concerts, theatre performances and many open-air events. 

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Will the police crackdown on an organised crime ring within the Prague Public Transit Company, which included the now former City Hall Councillor Petr Hlubuček of the government represented Mayors and Independents party, have a significant effect o...

Czech MEP suspends membership in STAN party over links with lobbyist at centre of corruption scandal

Just days ahead of the onset of its EU presidency, the Czech Republic has been hit by a major corruption scandal connected to the second largest government party – the Mayors and Independents. The affair has already cost the head of one minister, ...

Czech Post CEO to be replaced in September

The traditional pottery and crafts market in Beroun’s Hus square welcomed thousands of visitors in June. Ceramics-making has a long tradition in Beroun going all the way back to the 14th century and the market, which is now held three times a year...

Disabled people frequent victims of abuse

Archeologists uncover skeletal remains of 6th century warrior

Prague to motivate refugees to move to other regions

Sunday’s heatwave sets new record for June

Iron Maiden to perform in Prague

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State Prosecutor's Office investigating leak of documents on Hlubuček corruption case

Interior minister to dismiss head of Czech Post

Opposition leader says STAN party of “organized crime”

Central bank board likely to raise interest rates by 1.25 percentage points on Wednesday

Alois Hadamczik elected president of the Czech Ice Hockey Association

Education Minister Petr Gazdik resigns amid huge corruption scandal

The five-star Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary is one of the most famous hotels in Europe. In recent years, it has also become a popular backdrop for Hollywood films.

Helena Vondráčková, one of the Czech Republic’s biggest pop stars, will turn 75 next week. She can look back on a career spanning five decades and boast of being the country’s best-selling singer with over a million albums under her belt.

Events held in memory of the paratroopers who died after killing Reinhard Heydrich

The Czech Republic is preparing to take over the rotating presidency of the EU Council from France on July 1st, for its second stint at the helm of the 27-member alliance. Due to the war in Ukraine, and the need to address pressing issues such as en...

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Czechs bracing for extreme heatwave

Czech Radio features minute-by-minute reconstruction of last phase of Operation Anthropoid

PM and Prague mayor agree on measures to ease refugee burden on Prague

Former deputy mayor of Prague remanded in huge corruption scandal

Ukrainian president among those nominated for highest Czech state distinction

Czech foreign minister confident European Council will confirm Ukraine’s candidate status

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Czechs saving on lunches as food prices soar

An increasing number of Czech teenagers and young adults are using nicotine pouches, which are available in shops without any restrictions. The use of nicotine pouches is spreading even among younger children in primary schools, who are especially a...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men worldwide and the most common in the Czech Republic. The incidence of the disease in Czechia has risen by as much as 70 percent since the early 1990s. Martina Benešová, a young Czech resea...

Czech painter Tibor Červeňák was born in the Moravian town of Hranice and spent part of his youth in a children’s home. A visit to a local sculptor’s studio changed his life and he has since devoted his life to painting. He graduated from the...

Czechs warned to brace for extreme heatwave at the weekend

Czechia has fourth highest inflation rate in EU

State prosecutor wants custody for three persons in Public Transport Company scandal

Former political prisoner Miluška Havlůjová has died at 93

Covid cases grow for second week in row, but fewer people hospitalised

The Czech music festival Rock for People opened its gates to festivalgoers from around the Czech Republic and beyond at noon on Wednesday, after a two-year break when the festival couldn’t go ahead due to Covid restrictions. The festival, now in i...

EP president Roberta Metsola meets with Czech PM in Prague

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The Czech government has presented its list of priorities that it plans to focus on during the country’s upcoming presidency of the EU Council that will run from July 1 to December 31 of this year. Managing the refugee crisis associated with the w...

A European Parliament delegation headed by EP President Roberta Metsola is in Prague for talks with Czech leaders on the upcoming Czech EU Presidency. Viktor Daněk interviewed Ms. Metsola ahead of her trip to Prague and first asked whether she cons...

EU Court: Austrian restrictions on child benefits abroad illegal

Record 120 veteran cars take part in ‘1000 Czechoslovak Miles’ ride

Prague centre for Ukrainian refugees closed down

Car production up by 12 percent

Fuel prices at record high

Prague Deputy Mayor resigns over corruption case

Czech EU presidency focus will be Ukraine and energy security

Prague mayor calls on his deputy to resign over corruption case

29 per cent increase in anti-Semitic incidents recorded

President Zeman appoints Karel Řehka as new Chief of Staff of Czech army

Prague Airport resumes operations at limited capacity

All departures from Prague Airport stopped due to traffic control system failure

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called for his country to receive EU candidate status and for a seventh EU package of sanctions against Russia in a speech to the Czech Parliament on Wednesday. He repeatedly echoed the famous phrase “we ar...

The Bohemian Shepherd Dog, along with the Prague Ratter, is one of the oldest Czech dog breeds. It was originally used as a guard dog and a herding dog. Today it is mainly kept as a family pet, due to its friendly and gentle nature. Ruth Fraňková...

Senate approves amendment to Energy Act to increase energy security

Zelensky calls for Ukraine to be granted EU candidate status in speech to Czech parliament

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Prague Deputy Mayor one of 11 accused in transport company corruption case

Senate approves tighter rules for providing support to Ukrainian refugees

Putin’s war on Ukraine also has implications in outer space, with Russia carrying out cyberattacks aimed at crippling Ukrainians’ access to satellite services – and freezing cooperation with the West on space issues. This will be one area disc...

Ukraine president Zelensky to address Czech legislators

MPs back one-off child benefit responding to rising prices

150-km an hour tornado recorded in South Moravia

Interest in hiring new employees is at a record high according to a newly released survey conducted by HR company ManpowerGroup among hundreds of Czech businesses. Particularly in demand are IT professionals, of whom there is a long-term shortage on...

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Bedřich Smetana’s comic opera The Bartered Bride is widely regarded as a major contribution towards the development of Czech music and was the first Czech opera to achieve worldwide fame. Twenty-one different productions of the work have been per...

South Moravia governor criticises Prague over refugee centre closure

Murder suicide leaves three dead in Eastern Bohemia

Illustrator and graphic designer Pavel Sukdolák dies aged 96

Bratislava court rejects Babis petition over secret police record

Karlovy Vary cooperating with Odessa festival in showing works in progress

Czech state seeks increased capacity on Brussels flights over presidency

European Commission issues EUR 3.3m “fine” to Czechia for mistakes in agriculture funding

Lipavský: Still open questions in relations with Vatican

The ceremonial procession in Brno this weekend was one of the highlights of the SokolGym festival, taking place this year on the 160th anniversary of the founding of Sokol.

Statisticians: Czech population increased in first quarter of 2022

Lipavský on NATO Expansion: Turkey, Sweden and Finland need to talk together

The Together alliance of three centre-right parties would receive 28.5 percent of the vote in general elections, suggests a poll released on Sunday. Behind them would be the Pirates and Mayors, who also contested elections last year together. Formin...

A 9801 kg bell was cast in Austria on Friday to commemorate the 9,801 church and tower bells stolen from Czech territory and melted down for munitions during the Nazi occupation of WWII. The cost is being covered by a fundraising collection organize...

Deputy Chairman of Mayors and Independents dies on mountain trip

Czechia to donate CZK 3.2 million to Ukraine for purchasing ballistic goggles for police

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Nine trade unions declare strike emergency in effort to get concessions on wage increases

Lipavský: Czechia has offered help to nearly 400,000 Ukrainians on its territory

Number of Czechs who think their country is target of Russian information war falling

Czech household debt to banks falls for first time since 2016

Czechs lose 0:2 to Spain in Nations League

Kantar poll: ANO in the lead followed by Spolu coalition

Lipavský: Ukraine must be included in search for diplomatic solution to Russia invasion

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Massive cocaine shipment discovered by supermarket workers in Rychnov and Jičín

Defense Ministry proposes amendment to Constitution on foreign missions

Open-air mass among several events honuring victims of Nazi massacre at Lidice

Once the largest river shipping company in Central Europe, Labská JSC was established thanks to the recognition of the Elbe as an international river. Its founders were the then Czechoslovak state as well as several banks. The establishment was app...

Book World Prague award goes to Belarussian writer Alexievich

Jiří Procházka becomes UFC Light Heavyweight world champion

Czech-born composer and teacher Antonín Rejcha, who spent most of his life in France and who is the subject of a new book published by the Moravian Library in Brno.  In Today’s edition of Sunday Music Show you can listen to his Quintet in B fla...

Finance Minister: Government plans to let companies pay taxes in euros from 2024

Deaths in Prague caused by heat waves nearly doubled since 2010

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Famous Czech dubbing actor Stanislav Fišer dies aged 90

Development Minister suggests raising tax on energy companies

Czech volunteer dies in Donbass

Czech architect František Sammer has been mostly associated in his country with the construction of one of the first housing estates in the style of Socialist Realism. It is less known that Sammer worked for the greatest modern architect Le Corbusi...

Exactly eight decades ago, on June 10, 1942, the Central Bohemian village of Lidice was annihilated by Nazi forces in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. About 340 men, women and children were murdered, the village flattened. Lid...

EC says Czech Railways and the Austrian rail carrier ÖBB damaged RegioJet

The National Museum in Prague has brought some twenty valuable artefacts from Syria to the Czech Republic to be restored by local experts. The objects, dating back to the Bronze Age and Antiquity, will then be displayed in the National Museum’s hi...

Inflation hits 16 percent mark, analysts expect another interest rate hike

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Drunk man firing from his balcony hits police car

Czechs commemorate destruction of Lidice 80 years ago

Police using drones to monitor traffic violations

Hackers demanding millions in extortion attack on Road and Motorway Directorate