Colours of Ostrava music festival returns after two-year absence

The Cesky terrier, sometimes known as the Czech terrier or Bohemian terrier, is a small, agile dog, weighing in at no more than 10 kg. Even though it was created by inbreeding three related individuals, nowadays it is a very healthy and robust breed...

Czech inflation reaches 17.2 percent

Officials in Prague: EU will use existing courts for Ukraine war crimes cases

Demolition of pig farm at site of Lety concentration camp to start soon

The “Devil’s Arse” (Ďáblova prdel) is a famous rock formation in the area of “Czech Canada”, a national park that is filled with granite rocks.

The halt of Russian gas supplies to Europe via the Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 1, allegedly for technical maintenance reasons, has raised questions about how EU member states would survive the winter without Russian fuels. According to Industry ...

According to the results of an audit by the Supreme Audit Office, Czechia still lacks a comprehensive system for protecting so-called soft targets from terrorist attacks. The statement, released on Monday, has evoked concern regarding the level of s...

Indictment: Babiš created conditions under which Stork’s Nest got subsidy

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Historic carousel at Prague’s Letná reopens after renovation

Eliška Junková enters historic cars association Hall of Fame

Czech unemployment falls to 3.1 percent

Over 2,000 Covid cases on one day for first time since April

EU support hub to be established in Moldova

US makes financial donation in aid of Ukrainian refugees in Czechia

Germany pledges to help Czechia out in the event of gas supply fallout from Russia

Russian military equipment destroyed on the battlefields of northern Ukraine is on display in Prague. The travelling exhibition in support of Ukraine, which is on show on Letná Plain, includes a wrecked T-90 tank, the remains of a Buk anti-aircraft...

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Moravia sees significant increase in chickenpox among children

Supreme Audit Office: Czechia lacks comprehensive system for protection of soft targets

EU interior ministers debating security issues in Prague

Israeli president on official visit to Czechia

Czech filmmakers had a Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to remember this year: The Best Director and Best Actor prizes went to home names, while the first edition of the Proxima competition was won by a Czech documentary.

Czech tennis duo Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková won their second Wimbledon doubles title on Sunday, after beating Zhang Shuai and Elise Mertens in the final. It is the fourth out of the recent six major doubles tournaments that the p...

Prague reopens refugee centre

Krejčíková and Siniaková win Wimbledon women's doubles

Baroque fresco in Červená Lhota castle visible again after centuries

Three Czech tourists rescued by helicopter in Albanian mountains

Opposition criticises Labour Minister's progressive taxation proposal

Czechia to receive 2,800 monkeypox vaccines

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Ukraine confirms use of combat helicopters delivered from Czechia

Teenager falls into rocky chasm in Bohemian Paradise

Winners of Karlovy Vary film festival announced at glitzy closing ceremony

Czechia’s largest international music festival, Colours of Ostrava kicks off next week in the unique surroundings of the former Dolní Vítkovice ironworks. 

Lex Schwarzenberg was a special law drafted after World War Two with the sole purpose of stripping one of the most prominent Bohemian aristocratic families of most of their property. Legal experts consider it to be one of the most blatant legal wron...

Labour Minister: Czechs with higher incomes should pay more tax

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Highest daily number of new covid infections since end of April

Czechs in Sri Lanka are staying away from the riots

LOM Praha steps in to help transport Czech MEPs to Brussels

For a short period of time, a quiet, unassuming block in Prague 7 became a vibrant hub of art and multiculturalism. Part art gallery, part café and part community space, NGO DEI is closing this July. However, this won't dampen director Loretta Lau'...

Siniaková and Krejčíková advance to doubles final at Wimbledon

Newly landscaped Straka Academy gardens open to public

Packed Prague Philharmonia concert marks start of Czech EU Council presidency

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, ...