Czechia‘s municipal and Senate elections kick-off this Friday

Rudolf Jindrák to become new Czech ambassador to Slovakia

Lipavský calls for setting up of international tribunal at UN Security Council

Lipavský: Russians fleeing mobilisation do not fulfil Czechia’s humanitarian visa requirements

Government considering change to pension rise system

Banking Association proposes CZK 50 billion alternative to windfall tax

A recent public opinion survey of Czech attitudes to environmental issues suggests that, on the whole, Czechs care about the environment and most do not doubt that anthropogenic climate change is happening. But when it comes to concrete measures to ...

Jaroslav Seifert Prize awarded to essayist and art historian Josef Kroutvor

Number of detained illegal migrants rises sharply in Czechia

Czechia registers first patient who died after contracting monkeypox

Minister: Czechia’s living and subsistence minimum to increase next year

Conceptual artist David Černý has a new project. His sculptures will grace a new residential building in Prague’s district of Karlín.

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský addressed the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday urging delegates to defend the UN Charter and stop Russia’s colonial war against Ukraine. In an emotive speech to the assembly he s...

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Czech national team secures spot at World Baseball Classic tournament

Covid numbers rising in Czechia

Russians demonstrate against Putin on Wenceslas Square

Czech foreign minister: UN must rally to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine

Czech foreign minister to address UN Security Council in New York

Barbara Winton, daughter of the late Sir Nicholas Winton, devoted much of her life to sharing the story of how her father, as a young man aged only 29, helped to organise the transport of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the out...

The annual Literature Night (Noc literatury), which has become the largest European literature project of its kind in Czechia since it was introduced to the country 16 years ago, is taking place across 80 venues in the country’s capital and region...

Majority of employers under pressure to effect wage hikes

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Andrej Babiš backtracks on earlier promise to leave politics

Former general chief of staff: Russia is clearly not able to hold its positions in Ukraine

Czech foreign minister:Czechia will never recognize result of pseudo-referendums in eastern Ukraine

Fiala: partial mobilisation is further proof that Russia is aggressor

Daily covid infections still on rise

Patrik Schick wins Golden Ball for first time

While optimism was at a record high when companies in Czechia were asked about their hiring plans during the summer, HR firm ManpowerGroup’s latest survey, which looked into the situation on the country’s labour market going into the final quart...

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EU member states approve EUR 5 billion loan for Ukraine

Czechia’s national bone marrow donors register marks its 30th anniversary this year. Over the past three decades, the organization has helped find a suitable donor for more than two thousand people with leukemia or other serious blood conditions.

Lipavský to attend meetings of V4, B9 and EU ministers in New York

Czech company wins British National Lottery contract

The number of children and adolescents suffering from depression and those self-harming has increased steeply in the last few years, which many experts ascribe to the period of social isolation during the Covid pandemic. Alarmingly, the society is i...

Covid infection rate continues to rise

Czechia’s foreign debt decreased slightly in Q2 2022

The Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, has been facing major challenges recently. Last March, following its invasion of Ukraine, Russia was excluded from its ranks, reducing the number of member states from 47 to 46. Czechoslovakia became a par...

PM: Queen’s funeral was dignified, spiritual and grandiose

First ship carrying gas arrives at Dutch LNG terminal rented by Czechia

Prague City Hall approves plan to purchase up to 200 new trams

Today largely forgotten, Emil Fafek was a leading Czech news photographer for decades, covering everything from the Prague Uprising as a young man to his beloved sport. A new exhibition in Prague entitled Emil Fafek: On Guard aims to rekindle intere...

Car production sees rise in y-on-y numbers for first time in eight months

Vlado Milunic, the designer of Prague’s iconic Dancing House, has died at the age of 81. The Croatian architect, who spent most of his life in Czechia, co-designed the building with Frank Gehry in the mid-1990s.

The great Czech multiple Olympic champion Emil Zátopek was born exactly a century ago, on September 19, 1922. Regarded by some as the greatest runner of all time, Zátopek is known for both unmatched determination and an affable nature. However, th...

Average pension to rise to CZK 19,500 in January

Bek: UK, Israel and Western Balkans states to be among attendees of Prague EU meeting

The NATO Days in Ostrava and Days of the Czech Air Force attracted over 85,000 visitors to Mošnov airfield in the Moravian-Silesian Region at the weekend. One of the largest military shows in Europe, the two-day event featured representatives of th...

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Bank profits rise to over CZK 54 billion in first half of 2022

Wildcat escapes owner in Prague

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala went on national television on Sunday to try to dispel growing public concern regarding energy costs in the coming months. He said he was confident that the cap on energy prices approved by the government and parliame...

Footballers gather in Prague for final Nations League games

Fiala calls for rational power management in address to nation

Fruhvirtová, 17, takes first WTA title in Chennai

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Minister: Czech Railways fares will not rise as fast as inflation

Toyen, one of the most important surrealist artists of the twentieth century, was born 120 years ago.

New electoral poll puts Okamura party second behind ANO

Completed in 1996, the Dancing House is perhaps the best-known structure to go up in Prague since the Velvet Revolution. Indeed, the building, designed by the locally-based Vlado Milunic and superstar architect Frank Gehry has become iconic, drawing...

Demand for student dorm accommodation up despite higher charges

Deputy minister: Ukraine major opportunity for Czech defence and security industry

Chinese Embassy says Taiwan delegation undermines relations

One of Antonin Dvorak’s greatest works, the opera Rusalka, is set to be performed during the ongoing Dvořák Prague festival by the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Semyon Bychov.

Dancing House co-designer Milunic dies at 81

Fiala rejects criticism of TV speech just before elections

Babiš says being PM suits him better than presidential role

Lipavský calls for tribunal to investigate Russian actions in Ukraine’s Izyum

Two-day military show gets underway in Moravia-Silesia

Special mass as Prague’s St. Ludmila’s officially becomes basilica

Lower house vote paves way for energy price caps

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Prague Zoo to get new female gorilla

Meteorologists: Zlín Region was hit by small tornado

Zelensky unlikely to attend Prague EU summit, says Czech Europe minister

Daniel Matejča is one of the most promising Czech violinists of his generation. At the age of 17, he is studying at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and has already won a number of prestigious competitions, including the National Arts Prima...

A huge statue of a dog, created by the leading Czech artist František Skála, was unveiled on Prague’s embankment on Thursday. The seven meters long animal, made out of wire, will be on display at the Náplavka for two weeks.

Sharp rise in demand for Czech coal from Poland

Exactly 150 years ago, on September 16, 1872, the first passenger train was launched on the so-called Prague Semmering, the most picturesque railway line in the Czech capital. The line, which is listed as a cultural monument, earned its nickname due...

News outlets on Thursday evening reported that a Czech diplomat with top security clearance had been caught handing classified information over to the Russians. However, a legal loophole means that the alleged mole could well evade prosecution.

ČTK: Army against turning military airport into gigafactory

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Fiala to attend Queen’s funeral with wife

Median survey: Babiš still in the lead, but Pavel gaining in presidential race

Slavia beat Ballani for first win of European Conference League group stage

Uncertainty over whether Czech accused of spying for Russians will face prosecution

Intelligence service: Czech diplomat handed over information to Russians

According to an analysis of the mobile data market published by the Czech Telecommunications Authority, retail prices for mobile data in Czechia are the highest in the EU. Czechs pay 150 percent more for mobile services than the EU average.

Municipal council elections are taking place in Czechia next Friday and Saturday and it’s not just Czechs who are eligible to vote but EU citizens too. But how exactly does one register? And is it possible to run in the elections as well? We took ...

MEP and would-be presidential candidate Blaško quits Okamura party

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Czech Swimming Federation says energy crisis may mean pool closures

Experts issue warning over gap between incomes and expenditures

Fiala: Govt. aims to reach 2 percent spending on defence in 2024

Prague’s huge Strahov Stadium could be transformed into a startup hub and testing centre. Next week should see the signing of a memorandum between Prague City Hall and the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), which counts on a EUR 485 milli...

Prague has its fair share of “secret” cafes and restaurants – places that you can only find if you know where to look. But La Paisanita, an Argentinian empanada eatery, probably takes the crown for the capital’s most hard-to-find food establ...

Mass in honour of Queen Elizabeth II to take place at Prague’s Saint Vitus Cathedral

Covid infection rate continues to accelerate

Fiala: Czech presidency to work with EC on reducing energy prices

Some Like it Czech, a project introducing foreigners to local culture via movies, returns to Prague next week. The organisers say many of their visitors are mixed Czech-foreign couples – and plan to launch their second season with the 1990s classi...

Fifty-two cases of monkeypox detected in Prague since May

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New-born girl found in babybox in Třebíč named “Elizabeth” after Queen

Some 120,400 Ukrainian refugees have found jobs in Czechia

Czechoslovakia’s first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, died in the early hours of September 14, 1937, exactly 85 years ago. His funeral took place a week later in Prague and was attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Newly digitised rec...

Heavy storm warning issued for parts of Czechia

Pirates: Legal marijuana could generate up to CZK 1.8 billion in taxes

Industry and Trade Minister plans CZK 30 billion energy aid for large businesses

Covid cases on rise for ninth day in row

Senate supports government's proposal to set power price caps

Construction of new Prague bridge over Vltava begins

Czech year-on-year inflation slowed in August, from 17.5 percent in July to 17.2 percent. This followed 13 months of continuous rises. Obviously inflation is still very high, but does this mean the Czech economy has finally turned a corner? I spoke ...

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John Malkovich to premiere one-man show in Prague

Mortgage interest rates increase for another month in row

Supreme Court overturns verdict for man accused of fighting with pro-Russian separatists

Trams ran up and down Prague’s Wenceslas Square in the past and are set to do so again. This plan has now taken another step forward, with the city’s transport authority issuing a public tender to build the necessary lines, Novinky.cz reported.

Second day of Stork’s Nest trial continues

Il Boemo has been selected as the Czech nomination in the Best International Film category in the Oscars. Petr Václav’s movie tells the story of composer Josef Mysliveček and will get its world premiere at the San Sebastian film festival this we...