Historic sites open their doors to the public for free

First Czech MP comes out as gay

Czechs celebrating birth of Czechoslovakia in 1918

EU strikes deal on new combustion-engine car ban

October 28th is Czechoslovak Independence Day, marking the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918.  Czechs will commemorate the 104th anniversary of the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic with a host of events, including the traditional ceremony a...

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New Chinese and Spanish ambassadors to Czechia sworn in

After nearly seven decades, the National Literature Memorial has left its premises in Prague’s Strahov Monastery and moved to its new headquarters in the district of Bubeneč. Last week it opened to the public under the name Museum of Literature.

Government extends controls at Czech-Slovak border for another 15 days

Zeman to receive Babiš at Lány residence on Sunday

Thousands of people gathered on Wenceslas Square in Prague on Wednesday evening to call for an end to prejudice against LGBT+ people, which led to the homophobic murder of two young men in Bratislava earlier this month.

Czech foreign minister continues two-day visit to Qatar

When the #MeToo campaign resonated in the Western world many Czechs were openly sceptical and even ridiculed what they considered to be a typical excess of Western feminism. Then two cases of multiple rape made media headlines – one involving Domi...

Budget deficit of CZK 295 billion for 2023 passes first reading

Thousands gather on Wenceslas Square to support rights of LGBT+ people

Wolf territories in Czechia increased to 24

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Prague Castle’s Deer Moat to open to public at weekend

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Lidice tragedy, the Czech village razed to the ground by the Nazis in 1942 as revenge for the assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich. 340 people were murdered, including 88 children. For the last...

Czech MPs debated a windfall tax on profits in the energy and banking sectors in the lower house on Tuesday. The government plans to generate tens of billions from the tax from next year, not retroactively for 2022, as some voices in the coalition h...

Czechia ranked 20th in Rule of Law Index

Finance Minister: Czechia has enough gas for winter

Czech foreign minister begins two-day visit to Qatar

Rudolf Jelínek is one of Czechia’s best-known brands of slivovitz (slivovice in Czech). The plum brandy firm was set up in Moravia in the late 19th century and the brand is still going strong today. 

Exhibition at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters commemorates Lidice child victims

Czech data leaked due to Microsoft storage error

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The great Czech artist Theodor Pištěk, who turned 90 on Tuesday, won an Oscar in 1985 for his costumes for Amadeus. However, he regards himself primarily as a painter – and a cross-section of his works can now be seen at a joint exhibition in Pr...

Health minister urges people to get inoculated against Covid

Ministers from close to 50 states debating migration issues in Prague

Majority of cabinet members to be absent from Independence Day award ceremony

Greenpeace and Bund Sachsen lodge joint complaint over Turow mine

The 26th edition of the Ji.hlava International Festival of Documentary Films has just got underway. This year’s edition of Czechia’s biggest documentary event will deliver nearly 100 world premieres and several valuable retrospectives. On the ev...

2022 Ji.hlava documentary festival kicks off

Czechia’s borders closed to Russians with Schengen visas

Fiala to attend Castle honours event despite Zeman not inviting top officials

Foreigner seriously injured in shooting during Prague police raid

Over 5,000 people in Czechia have undergone gender reassignment

The world-renowned Czech conductor Libor Pešek has died at the age of 89. In a career spanning seven decades, Mr. Pešek, who was best-known for his interpretations of Czech music, helmed orchestras across Europe and headed the Czech Philharmonic, ...

Válek: November to bring more Covid, flu hospitalisations

Czechia has just over two more months at the helm of the EU and according to the Minister for European Affairs Mikuláš Bek, the hardest test of its ability as a negotiator is yet to come. Prague needs to push ahead with some of the basic agreement...

Olympic champion Ledecká speaks about summer collarbone speak

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The Skalka cable car in the Ještěd Ski Resort in Liberec undergoes a thorough safety test ahead of each season. And what better way to do that in Czechia than with beer? The process involves putting 200 fifty-litre beer kegs on the cable car to ma...

Nearly 50 ministers discussing migration at two-day Prague conference

World-renowned conductor Libor Pešek dies at 89

Covid infection rates, hospitalisations and deaths down

ČEZ to seek international arbitration over Russian outages

Number of Ukrainians with temporary protection status passes 450,000

From iconic radios to the Tamara radar

LGBT+ rally against violence set for Wenceslas Sq. Wednesday

In retaliation for the assassination of Heydrich, 262 relatives and helpers of the paratroopers from groups Anthropoid, Silver A, Bivouac, Out Distance, Steel and Intransitive were court-martialled and sentenced to death by the Prague Gestapo 80 yea...

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Prague Sounds festival kicks off with Snarky Puppy at Lucerna

Plans to ease working from home criticised from many sides

Josef Václav Mysliveček, was a famous 18th century Czech composer who spent most of his life in Italy, where he was known as the ingenious 'Il Boemo'. Musicologists speak about his significant contribution to the formation of late eighteenth-centu...

ANO presidential election plan announcement postponed till Oct 30

Annual mass for victims of Heydrich killing reprisals held in Prague

Czech government to discuss screening system for ministers and deputies

First congress of Belarusians in Czechia held in Prague

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John Cale to perform at Prague’s Archa in March

Interest in studying Russian lower since Ukraine invasion

Hundreds demand safety for LGBT+ community in Prague march

Ivan Chvatík worked closely with Jan Patočka, helping organise underground seminars for the great Czech philosopher, and since his death has done more than anybody to keep his legacy alive. Chvatík himself came to philosophy after studying nuclea...

EU transport ministers agree to review Trans-European Transport Network

Czech PM wants to do away with EU's "unhealthy dependence" on China

Fiala: Ukraine top priority for second day of EU summit

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Screenwriter and director Patrik Křivánek has become the first Czech to win a prize at the Page International Screenwriting Award competition, which aims to discover up-and-coming scriptwriters from around the world.  His story about an aging Hol...

Interior Minister to ask for 15-day extension for border checks

Czech zoos getting record visitor numbers

New organ for St. Vitus Cathedral to arrive in few weeks

The global network of Czech Centres operates as the cultural wing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, promoting the Czech Republic abroad and strengthening cultural ties between countries. There are 26 Czech Centres operating in 24 countries on thre...

The iconic Lennon Wall in Prague’s Kampa is one of the most visited sites in the Czech capital. Now a Czech artist has taken this symbol of resistance to Paris within celebrations of the Czech EU presidency.

Tennis: Marie Bouzková reaches quarterfinals of Guadalajara Open 

EU transport ministers attend informal meeting in Prague

Czech households consume about 30 percent of domestic energy, most of it for heating

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Lower House speaker calls for international criminal tribunal for war crimes in Ukraine

One of Prague’s leading arts venues, the Archa theatre, has begun its final full season, with the final curtain set for the end of next year. Since its foundation in 1994 Archa has hosted some of the world’s greatest alternative theatre and danc...

The common European mole, immortalised as Zdeněk Miler’s beloved cartoon character in animated films, now has another Czech connection – a Czech scientist was part of the team that discovered the mole’s unusual evolutionary tactic for survivi...

Prague to donate trams and buses to Kharkiv

Ex-MP to be charged with three counts of rape

Prague’s Military Museum to open after major reconstruction

Following a mass expulsion of each other’s diplomats in 2021, Prague and Moscow are now engaged in a spat over diplomatic ground. The Czech Foreign Ministry has sent Russia a protest note over the dismantling of a fence around the Czech House in M...

Seven charged with subsidy fraud following police raids on Brno City Hall

Czech ambassador to Moscow held talks at Russian Foreign Ministry over Czech House dispute

Finance minister says windfall tax will not be retroactive

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Foreign minister presents Gratias Agit awards to eight laureates

A fifth of Czech companies considering layoffs due to rising energy costs

PM: Czechia would like to see cap on gas prices for electricity production

Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša is set to become music director of the Royal Opera House in London. The 41-year-old Hrůša, who is currently chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, will take over from Antonio Pappano in 2025. However, he will serve ...

Windfall tax to be retro-active for 2022

In addition to buying four dual-source battery-electric trains from the Škoda Group, Czech Railways is also preparing major tenders for several dozen more such vehicles.

The 2022 Gratias Agit awards were presented at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague on Wednesday. This year the prize, which recognises efforts to promote the good name of Czechia internationally, went to seven individuals and one institu...

Say “Tesla” and most people think of electric cars. But here in Czechia people associate the brand name with a wide variety of electronic products they grew up with. During the communist era Czech households relied on Tesla radios, Tesla TV sets...

MPs cut president’s budget over conviction of forestry official

MPs approve 2022 state budget deficit of CZK 375 billion

Hladík ministerial role in doubt after police raids

Currently, only one EU country has legalised recreational cannabis – and despite popular misconception, it is not the Netherlands, where the sale of cannabis is tolerated at licensed coffeeshops, but cultivation, supply and possession of cannabis ...

The country’s counterintelligence service BIS traditionally performs quietly and efficiently behind the scenes. But on Monday it was at the centre of media attention due to a rare visit by the prime minister, the first in 24 years.    

MPs to vote on increasing 2022 state budget

Office of candidate for minister raided by police in Brno

Poll: Pavel would defeat Babiš in presidential election first round

Babiš corruption trial to resume in December

PM Fiala says Czechs will not stay silent on Moscow building move

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Hrůša to become music director of London’s Royal Opera House in 2025

Government to consider legalizing marihuana

Russian authorities order removal of fence around Czech House in Moscow

The Czech furniture brand TON is synonymous for its manually bent wood furniture, created with the help of a technology that has been in continuous use for more than 160 years.

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Popular Czech actor Josef Somr passed away on Sunday at the age of 88. He played the womanising train dispatcher Hubička in the Oscar-winning 1966 film Closely Watched Trains and starred in The Joke, released in 1968.

Judges warn courts “on verge of collapse” due to low salaries of court employees

Czech counterintelligence reports on Russian agent with close links to some politicians and journalists

Mene Tekel festival kicks off in Prague on Monday

Museums getting EU funding for reconstruction

Rise in pensions will increase state deficit in 2023