Czechia reinstated border controls with Slovakia for a period of ten days as of midnight Wednesday. The government ordered the move in connection with a sharp increase in illegal migration in recent weeks.

Senate speaker awards commemorative medals on Czech Statehood Day

Interior Minister Rakušan warns against manipulators in hard times

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Thousands of people join anti-government protest in Prague

Refugees moved to hostels as cold weather closes Troja tent town

Business leader warns large companies are in trouble

Slovakia slams Czech decision to reintroduce border controls

Senate speaker to hand out commemorative medals

Czechs marking Statehood Day, honoring nation’s patron saint

The cult of St Wenceslas is ever-present in the Czech Republic, not least in the field of music. Many people are probably familiar with the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas" about a Bohemian king who goes on a journey, braving harsh winter weath...

Lipavský: EU should look at visa liberalisation for Kosovo

Around a hundred representatives of international education agencies across Europe gathered in Prague this week to discuss current challenges facing the Erasmus+ program. The so-called Directors' Meeting is traditionally organised by the country hol...

Křetinský’s EPH becomes sole owner of Dutch power plant

UK stamp features photo of Queen from Prague Castle

With inflation at over 17 percent and energy prices expected to go through the roof in the autumn, economizing has become the order of the day for the vast majority of Czechs. According to polls, eighty percent of Czechs are feeling the crunch, a th...

Senator Hraba quits Mayors and Independents

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Pavel collects more than required 50,000 candidates to stand for president

Czechia brings back checks at Slovak border over high illegal migration

Covid daily new cases highest since early April

The Petřín cable car will soon get a new look courtesy of designer Anna Marešová and her team. It's airy, practical and sassy!

V4 defence ministers meet in Slovakia

Síkela: EU countries to agree on windfall tax for energy firms this Friday

Renáta Kellnerová tops list of wealthiest Czechs and Slovaks

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Four out of ten people in Czechia expect that they will be doing the same job until they retire and a further 20 percent believe that they will be doing the same job for at least another decade, according to a survey conducted by the Data Collect ag...

EU agency calls for displaced persons from Ukraine to fill out survey

The weekend municipal and Senate elections took place in an atmosphere of growing concern about soaring energy costs, inflation and the global security situation, raising fears that this might fuel nationalist and extremist tendencies. I asked comme...

Bohemian Switzerland park director dismissed following complaints over handling of forest fire

The 21st Prague Fringe gets underway on Monday, with organisers promising one of the best editions yet. The week-long event will also feature an act from Ukraine – and the festival is planning to bring alternative theatre to Kyiv in future. I spok...

Confidence in Czech economy at all-time low

The 2012 Olympic champion in cross-country cycling, Jaroslav Kulhavý, has called time on a great career. The 37-year-old Czech (right) took part in his last professional event at a former industrial site at Ostrava’s Vítkovice at the weekend.

UK historian Mark Cornwall is an expert on Czech-German relations and the late Habsburg Empire. His book The Devil’s Wall explores the previously little-known story of Heinz Rutha, an associate of Sudeten German leader Konrad Henlein whose sexuali...

Industry minister: Cap on energy will not cover all the energy consumed

Coalition talks underway in wake of municipal elections

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First coalition deal emerges in Plzeň

With the final results now out from this weekend’s municipal and Senate elections, political commentators are noting that there are is no sign of fundamental change on the Czech political scene.

Mayors and Independents suffer losses in wake of scandal

ANO leader welcomes gains in municipal elections, disappointed with turnout

PM Fiala: Municipal election result proof that ruling coalition is viable

Three senators elected in first round of Senate elections

ANO takes eight regional towns in municipal elections, ruling parties dominant in Prague and Brno

The first ever football match in the Czech lands is not very well documented. According to some sources it took place 135 years ago, according to others it was five years later.

This week’s Sunday Music Show is focused on the new vinyl record Traxler 110, which will receive its ceremonial christening at the Gala Evening of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union on September 26, 2022. The record is dedic...

Two senators elected in first round of Senate elections

Preliminary results indicate SPOLU coalition has highest gains in Prague

Voting has ended in municipal elections and elections to a third of seats in the Czech Senate. Traditionally independent candidates have won the most votes followed by the ANO party. ANO will also challenge the ruling parties in the second round of ...

Czechs have cast their votes in the 2022 municipal and Senate elections. Voting booths around the country closed precisely at 2pm and preliminary results are expected in the late afternoon or early evening.

Independent candidates win lion’s share of votes in municipal elections

Majority of Czechs experience decline in living standard

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Czech Health Ministry proposing lower temperatures in workplace

Czech MEP Jaroslava Jermanová elected chair of ECON

Foreign ministry warns NHL it will not grant Russian players visas

Foreign ministry aims to soften regulations for Ukrainian, Belorussian students

Second day of voting in municipal, Senate elections

Czechs voting in municipal and Senate elections

Friday sees the start of the 2022 municipal and Senate elections in Czechia. Voting booths are open on Friday from 2pm to 10pm and on Saturday from 8am to 2pm. In those districts where a Senate candidate does not receive more than 50 percent of the ...

Following President Putin’s announcement of a partial mobilisation on Wednesday, there were reports of thousands of Russians leaving the country to avoid the call-up. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has said that Russians fleeing their homela...

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President Zeman to attend V4 summit in Slovakia in October

Taiwan and Czechia sign memoranda on cooperation in education, science and culture

EU ministers discussing consumer rights issues in Prague

Opposition slams government for not enabling people with Covid to vote

Recent weeks have seen important events take place in relation to the war that Russia has unleashed on Ukraine, whether it be the successful Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region, or Vladimir Putin’s Wednesday announcement of a partial...

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

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

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...

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...