Finance Ministry proposing windfall tax for companies in energy, banking and fossil fuels

ECP meeting in Prague hailed a success

Czech PM meets with British counterpart ahead of EPC meeting in Prague

More than 40 leaders gathered in Prague on Thursday afternoon for the first ever summit of the European Political Community. It is a new grouping set up by France that also includes many states that are not EU members. At the summit I discussed its ...

According to a freshly released survey conducted by the education firm Scio, four out of ten Czech elementary school students between the ages of 11 to 15 say they often encounter verbal abuse in their class and 13 percent reported that physical abu...

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EU approves eighth sanctions package against Russia

Czech scientists develop method of detecting forgeries of artistic photographs

Gas consumption down by 20 percent in 3Q

Psychiatrist Jan Cimický facing multiple rape charges

Alena Saladiaková's original profession is a wedding coordinator, but two years ago her career  unexpectedly changed course when the family decided to acquire two Alpacas as pets. Now she and her husband own four Alpacas and have established a bus...

Qatari Emir ends his visit to Czechia prematurely

Prague hosts inaugural meeting of European Political Community

The Qatari head of state, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, is currently on a state visit to Prague where he is meeting not only with Czech leaders but also with several other European representatives on the backdrop of the European summit in the Cze...

With 100 days until Czechs elect a new president, the bookmakers have Petr Pavel as favourite. Andrej Babiš had been expected to go head to head with the ex-army man, though it is not clear whether he will run. Meanwhile the governing Together alli...

Survey: more than 80 % of Czech second level elementary school pupils experience bullying 

Border controls with Slovakia extended until October 28

Vladimír Posolda to become new head of civilian intelligence service

Czech President Zeman and Emir of Qatar sign agreement on economic cooperation

Škoda Auto boasts one of the oldest unbroken histories among car manufacturers still operating today. It is the fifth-oldest company in the world still producing cars, after Daimler, Opel, Peugeot, and Tatra, another Czech company – meaning that ...

A joke petition calling for the annexation of the Russian port city of Kaliningrad to the Czech Republic has received nearly 12,000 electronic signatures since it was posted on the website petice.cz last Tuesday. It was set up amid a wave of memes o...

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Renáta Kellnerová tops Forbes Czech rich list

Covid-19: highest number of hospitalised since April

Designblok festival gets underway in Prague

Plžen beaten 5:0 by Bayern in Champions League

Fiala to meet Truss on sidelines of Prague European Political Community meeting

No hearing with Okamura over derogatory comments in lower house

Jurečka: Zeman will quickly facilitate appointment of new environment minister

The renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has won an international competition for the design of a new Jewish Museum in the Moravian city of Brno. The striking building in the shape of a seemingly endless white ribbon with a tree in the centre was ...

Lenka Morávková is a sound-artist and electronic producer from North Bohemia who divides her time between Prague and Los Angeles. A few years ago, she created a one-of-a-kind glass sculpture called the Bohemian Cristal Instrument, a unique version...

Together recommend voters back Pavel, Nerudová or Fischer for president

Together and ANO agree most areas in Prague coalition talks

An investigative team at Czech Radio has unveiled the shocking story of a young woman who was held in mechanical restraint in a mental home in Opava for a period of twelve years. Her fate has once again highlighted the inhumane conditions in many Cz...

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New chief conductor Popelka helms Radio orchestra for first time

Number of people hospitalised with covid increasing

Eight people arrested in Brno on corruption charges

Russian ambassador summoned to Foreign Ministry

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Foreign Ministry calls on Czech citizens to leave Russia

Gas consumption in Czechia falls 18 percent year-on-year

River flows below average for 12 months in row

The first pre-school institution -a so-called "model youth nursery" -  was founded in 1832 by Jan Svoboda, a teacher at the Prague Emmaus parish school Na Hrádku. Svoboda taught children aged three to six the basics of reading, writing and German ...

Elections to one-third of the seats in the Czech Senate were not a success for opposition leaders ANO, which took only three of 27, compared to 20 for the governing Together group. Where did it go wrong for Andrej Babiš’s party? And will the resu...

Czech and Slovak foreign ministers agree migration problem must be solved at European level

Czech researchers at the Technical University of Liberec have developed a new material that could find multiple uses in interior design and various artistic fields such as the creation of perfumed jewelry. The new glass-ceramic porous material calle...

Hot-air balloon enthusiasts from around the country took to the skies over Bělá pod Bezdězem, north-east of Prague, at the weekend.  

iRozhlas: Human rights violated at Czech psychiatric hospitals

The Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková has won her first singles title of 2022 in Tallinn.

Babiš: Senate second round not success for ANO but some positives

Krejčíková wins in Tallinn for first singles title of year

Kupka: Extraordinary tax on power producers could generate CZK 100 billion

Zeman joins other presidents in region in rejecting Russian annexation in Ukraine

Covid hospitalisations in Czechia jump

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CT: Half million seniors in Czechia on verge of poverty

Russian historian Zubov to teach at Czech university

The best-known Czech pop punk band Rybičky 48 is celebrating two decades on stage. The popular band will mark the anniversary with a special show in Prague’s O2 Arena this month, performing not only their biggest hits, but also some of their late...

Fiala: Election results unequivocal for Together coalition

Governing Civic Democrats most successful party in Senate elections

Czechia slams Russia for abuse of veto power on UN Security Council

Vystrčil defeats Nagyová in keenly watched Senate clash

Second round of voting for Senate places concludes

Tourists back at Pravčice Gate, months after major forest fire

21 injured after people smuggler van crashes in Břeclav

MPs to vote on 2023 budget on October 30

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Second round of voting for Senate places ends Saturday afternoon

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Fiala: Annexation of Ukrainian territories by Russia “unacceptable and illegitimate”

The 11th annual Architecture Day has got underway in more than 100 cities and towns across Czechia and Slovakia. Despite its name, the festival will run for a whole week, offering free guided tours of famous buildings as well as lesser known archite...

Czech Gripen fighters return from mission in Baltic

Iga Świątek among star lineup at this year’s Angel Open in Ostrava

A forestry worker in north Bohemia came upon a valuable prehistoric treasure: a massive bracelet and other objects dating back to the Bronze Age.

Russia’s plan to annex more of Ukraine on Friday, following sham referendums in the occupied eastern regions of the country, have drawn widespread condemnation from Western democracies. Czechia, which currently holds the EU presidency, has slammed...

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Lipavský: Russian referendums a sham, EU preparing further sanctions

EU ministers approve energy relief package

Police arrest migrants and traffickers on border with Slovakia

Czechs vote in second round of Senate elections

Covid epidemic continues to accelerate

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Czech Foreign Minister hopes to find political agreement on visa liberalisation for Kosovo

US Congress approves $106 million military aid for Czechia

This week Prague hosted a summit of the Pact of Free Cities, a cooperation agreement that was jointly signed nearly three years ago by the mayors of Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest. The pact has since grown in membership and now also includ...

HPI index: housing prices in Czechia more than doubled in past decade

Fuel prices lowest since Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russian players can take part in upcoming NHL games in Prague

Tennis: Muchová and Krejčíková reach quarter-finals in Tallin

Czech police detain 120 migrants since reinstated border controls

On the occasion of Czech Statehood Day, the Czech Embassy in Canada organized a gala evening in Ottawa, awarding EU presidency medals to the Czech-Canadians who helped mold the close relationship between the two nations.

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