Czech state to lend up to CZK 74 billion to energy group ČEZ

TOP 09: Czechia should start getting ready to adopt the euro

Czechs to face US and Poland in Billie Jean King Cup draw

This Saturday will see the start of the annual Czech Hitchhiking Championships (Mistrovství ČR v autostopu). Contestants will have to travel from Prague to Istanbul and back, only being able to travel by riding in strangers’ cars. Several checkp...

Man accused of spreading Covid disinformation acquitted

Czechia’s expenses on Covid vaccines reach CZK 19 billion

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Ostrava steelworks to be revamped

The top prizes at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival will be announced at a glitzy ceremony on Saturday evening. Twelve works are in the running for the Crystal Globe for Best Film, while the all-new Proxima competition will get its first ever...

The story of Czechoslovak military involvement in World War Two is often told with a focus on a few heroic figures and pivotal events. However, one aspect that has gone largely overlooked in popular memory is the role of women in the fight against N...

Ambassador: Czech lease of LNG terminals in Netherlands should cover third of country’s consumption

Siniaková and Krejčíková advance into doubles semi-final at Wimbledon

Car sales down by 12.3 percent in Czechia in first half of 2022

Lower-house votes in favour of Czech exit from Moscow’s Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

The origins of the Český strakatý pes, known as the Czech Spotted Dog or sometimes the Bohemian Spotted Dog in English, are rather sad from today’s perspective. Originally known as Horák’s Laboratory Dog, it was bred in the 1950s for use in...

The European Union’s is currently facing many crises and its main task will be to mitigate their effects on EU citizens, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in his address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. Mr Fiala highlighte...

Survey: More than a third of Czech businesses would not be able to operate without gas

Environment Minister: Interest in rooftop solar power subsidies growing

Prague hosting EU defence conference

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Czech PM welcomes EP vote to temporarily add nuclear and gas among EU green investments

Art auctioneers saw record revenues in first half of 2022

Fiala: Czechia will do its best to get EU to accept Croatia into Shengen

Czech industry grew by 3.3 percent year-on-year in May

A hotly discussed issue at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival is tax incentives. Producers say the Czech government’s failure to earmark funds for such rebates will ultimately cost the state – and lead international movie and TV companies ...

Vaccinologist recommend fourth Covid vaccine dose for over 60s

Czechs increasingly opting for active holidays, according to travel providers

Another Czech mountaineer dies in Italian Alps

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Czech PM urges need to find EU consensus to tackle current crises

If you live in the Czech Republic, you’ll have been enjoying two extra days off from work due to a pair of consecutive public holidays this week. 5th July, Saints Cyril and Methodius day, and 6th July, Jan Hus day, both have a connection to the wa...

Czechs mark Jan Hus Day

July 6th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic marking the 607th anniversary of the burning at stake of reformer priest Jan Hus. Masses are celebrated around the country, among others in Jan Hus’ birthplace Husinec and at Bethlehem chapel in P...

Marie Bouzková loses to Ons Jabeur in Wimbledon quarter-final

HBO to stop filming Czech television shows amid restructuralisation

Ukraine’s C-in-C thanks Czechia and Poland for “brotherly help” in conflict

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Traditional mass in Velehrad marks Cyril and Methodius Day

Two Czechs now confirmed dead in Italian Alps ice avalanche

Czech Republic among signatories of Lugano Declaration to rebuild Ukraine

The leaders of the newly established Czechoslovakia could and should have done far more to ensure its stability. So says historian Professor Igor Lukeš from Boston University, author of the recently published collection Dějiny a doba postfaktická...

July 5th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic honouring the legacy of Saints Cyril and Methodius who came to Great Moravia in 863 to spread the Christian faith and lay the foundations of literacy with the Glagolitic alphabet.

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Cause of Alzheimer's Home fire either technical fault or negligence

Police looking for man who stabbed company employee in Slaný

Four Czechs missing after ice avalanche in Italy

Fiala: Czech businesses have to help with reconstruction of Ukraine

The way children in the Czech Republic are marked is not always fair according to a newly published study conducted by the think-tank IDEA at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. There is a difference by one whole grade in how i...

This July marks exactly 25 years since the Czech Republic was hit by the deadliest outbreak of floods in its history. The natural disaster in 1997 impacted almost a third of the country’s territory, and would acquire the nickname – “Flood of t...

Czech PM: EU must work together against Russia

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Jan Graubner was officially inaugurated as the Archbishop of Prague on Saturday, during a mass in the Cathedral of Saint Vitus in the Czech capital. Monseigneur Graubner replaces Cardinal Dominik Duka (left) in the office.

The biggest name on the opening weekend of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Liev Schreiber, used his appearance to draw attention to the plight of Ukraine. The Hollywood actor said the conflict had made him reflect on his Ukrainian root...

Days of the People of Goodwill start in Velehrad, marking anniversary of Cyril and Methodius

At least one Czech among victims of ice avalanche in Italy

Marie Bouzková reaches Wimbledon quarter-finals

PM expects Parliament to ratify Sweden and Finland’s NATO entry in autumn

PM: Czechia to help Slovakia in securing its airspace

PM and President in favour of tax on energy companies

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Czech Defence Minister visits Ukraine on 105th anniversary of Battle of Zborov

Krejčíková and Kvitová out of Wimbledon

The centre of Chrudim came alive with art at the weekend. Visitors could see the most famous Czech puppets, live music and theatre performances. The celebrations marked 50 years since the birth of the local Museum of Puppets.    

Waldemar Matuška, one of the country’s most popular singers, would have turned 90 this June. He enjoyed his hey-day in the 1960s and 1970s. With his masculine appearance and rich baritone, he appealed especially to female audience.

Zátopek themed run marking start of Czech EU presidency in Brussels

Prague to reopen centre for refugees from Ukraine

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Marie Bouzková advances into Wimbledon last 16

All 2.4 TWh of gas purchased by government now stored in Czech gas tanks

Concert for Europe in Litomyšl interrupted by climate protestors

Jan Graubner becomes Archbishop of Prague

The Czech Republic has taken up the rotating presidency of the EU Council at an exceptionally difficult time, when the war in Ukraine is re-writing the world order and states in close proximity of Russia are scrambling to join Western structures. In...

Czech and EU leaders meet in Litomyšl for Czech EU presidency kickoff

The small Bohemian town of Litomyšl became a metaphorical “centre of Europe” this Friday as the Czech government met with European Commission leaders to discuss the country’s plans for its six-month-long EU presidency. Following the meeting, ...

Number of coronavirus cases almost doubles within a week

New governor of Czech National Bank takes the reins

Vladimír Balaš inaugurated as new Education Minister

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Prague zoo to get two new gorillas

 A new exhibition, currently underway at the Moravian Museum in Brno, is mapping the development of Czech comics over the past one hundred years. The show presents original drawings by some of the country’s best-known comics authors, such as Káj...

Czech Republic takes over EU Presidency from France

One of the big events on the opening weekend of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will be the world premiere of a restored version of Jaromil Jireš’s 1968 movie The Joke, based on the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera. On the eve...

Four Czechs reach third round at Wimbledon

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Karlovy Vary film festival kicks off on Friday evening

EC investigating state support for new Czech nuclear unit in Dukovany

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The Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Prague’s Czech Technical University recently acquired two new assistants – agile dog-like machines with robotic arms that can navigate terrain and capture data – and is using them to create a digital 3D...

Czech audiovisual industry posts record turnover for 2021

On the occasion of assuming the presidency of the EU Council, the Czech Republic is organising a special charity run in Brussels this Saturday. The race is inspired by the friendship of the two great track rivals of 1950s long-distance running – C...

Revised estimate puts first quarter growth at 4.9 percent

Czech coal miner OKD to extend mining at least until end of 2023

Czech’s willingness to help Ukraine declining

Unemployment in Czechia lowest in EU in May

“The Czech Republic Talks” is the name of a new project seeking to match up people with very different political views – and get them to speak face to face. But how successful has the project, run by the government’s Hate Free Culture agency...

Sweden ready to offer loaned aircraft for free if Czechia favours Gripens after 2027

Government increases subsistence minimum

Vladimír Baláš appointed education minister

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Český horský pes or the Bohemian Mountain Dog is the youngest and probably the least common of the Czech original dog breeds. It was bred in the late 1970s as a mountain dog and is an excellent companion for the outdoors. Despite its imposing loo...

A new multimedia exhibition has opened up this week at the Riding School of Prague Castle. Covering over 2,000 square metres of space, Alphonse Mucha eMotion combines digitised and 3D animated versions of Czech Art Nuveau master Alfons Mucha’s mos...

Army called into action to boost security during Czech EU Presidency

Three Czechs charged with EU subsidy fraud

Ombudsman under fire for stripping deputy of competences

General Petr Pavel will run for president

After a period of relative calm, Covid-19 seems to be making another comeback in the Czech Republic. This week has seen over 1,000 registered new cases a day for the first time since in two months and experts say a fresh wave of the disease is on it...

Tuesday Covid infections figure double that of previous week

State of emergency in Czech Republic drawing to end

Study: Average price of lunch in Czech restaurant CZK 163

A new museum dedicated to Alice Masaryk, the daughter of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and the co-founder of the Czechoslovak branch of the Red Cross, has opened in Lány in Central Bohemia. The institution is located nea...

Julia Sherwood, an award-winning translator and literary organiser, was born in Bratislava, but spent most of her life in the UK, where she settled after emigrating from Czechoslovakia in 1978. Today, she lives in London with her husband, linguist a...

President Zeman’s second term in office will expire in March of next year and Czechs are already mulling who they will support as their next head of state in elections scheduled for January 13. I spoke to political analyst Jiří Pehe about the ou...

Ukraine’s ambassador against Russian film at Karlovy Vary

Czech arts minister to visit Lviv on Wednesday

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Prague outdoor Shakespeare festival begins with Macbeth

Deals for US and French fuel for Temelín signed

Prague 10 mayor and deputy dismissed over connections with corruption case

President Zeman to appoint Vladimír Balaš as education minister on Wednesday

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