President signs off on windfall tax

On Monday night, members of the Chinese community in Prague gathered in Prague’s Národní trída, in a show of solidarity with the anti-government protests that have broken out across China. Many donned facemasks to protect themselves and feared ...

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More than a quarter of a million people in Czechia are currently either homeless or facing a housing crisis, according to a study commissioned by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Experts believe that this number is likely to rise in the ne...

Forum Karlín cancels concerts by two Russian artists due to stance on war

Hundreds of people turned out for the official tree lighting ceremony on Prague’s Old Town Square on Sunday. After an enforced two-year Covid break, the traditional Christmas market is back with close to 80 stalls selling hand-made Christmas decor...

Czech Space Week begins

Nine people are in the running to succeed Miloš Zeman as Czech president in elections in January, after fulfilling the necessary criteria. Two, Petr Pavel and Danuše Nerudová, collected 50,000 signatures, while the remainder secured the backing o...

Many of Prague’s trams and busses, including the historic Ringhoffer and Irisbus Citelis 12 M are decked out for Christmas adding to the festive mood in the Czech capital. Passengers will be able to enjoy the sight until January 6, 2023.   

Supreme Audit Office: Ministry not keeping track of how EU subsidies help families

Winter Olympian Ledecká unable to compete until new year due to surgery

Prices of country cottages and summer cabins falling in Czechia

Presidential election: Babiš now polling first

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Ministry: More than a quarter-million people in Czechia suffer from inadequate housing conditions

Strikes in Austria likely to impact railway connections in Czechia

Fiala to request that acting environment minister remain in office until end of 2022

Survey: More than a fifth of companies in Czechia plan to hire more people in 2023

Hundreds attend anti-government protest in Prague

Czechs mark first Advent Sunday

Not even boundless loyalty to the Soviet Union could save Rudolf Slánský, a general secretary of the Communist Party, from the death penalty in a trial that culminated on 27 November 1952.

Musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jiří Stivín turned 80 this week. As every year, he will celebrate with a concert in tribute to St. Cecilia, the patron of musicians.

Four dismissed presidential candidates to issue appeal

Interior minister wants to discuss revision of presidential election legislation

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Netflix interested in filming documentary about famous Czech gangster

Basic legislation proposal on legalizing cannabis should be ready by March 2023

Christmas market on Prague’s Old Town Square opens up to public

Czechia and Jordan to deepen cooperation in energy, health and defence

Interior Ministry approves nine candidates to run for position of Czech president next year

Alfons Maria Mucha is still remembered today for his Art Nouveau paintings and graphics, such as his iconic theatrical poster of French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt. His art adorns walls, ceilings and windows in grand buildings in the Czech capital...

Prague’s 170 line to get hydrogen powered bus

The railway bridge connecting Prague's Výtoň and Smíchov districts is due to get a new look – and not everyone is happy about it.

Lower-house votes to cancel electronic cash register system

Friday, November 25, is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It also marks the start of a worldwide annual campaign against gender-based violence. Here in Czechia a series of events are taking place to address the pro...

HN: Prague’s Jindřišská Tower has 16 potential buyers

Lipavský: Diplomatic relations with Russia should be maintained despite “terrorist" designation

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Stories from Ukraine exhibition in Hradec Králové targeted by vandals

Site supporting Ukraine wins annual media award

Fiala to take more time before proposing Hladík for minister

Senators approve windfall tax on energy firms and banks

Fiala: V4 leaders reach common position on Ukraine despite differences

The grand Pařížská street has just ranked 17th in the latest analysis of the world’s most expensive streets, overtaking its old rival Na Příkopě.

Jurečka: All Czech drivers could get electric cars support

The Old Town Bridge Tower, a gateway to Charles Bridge, which dates back to the 14th century, is to undergo extensive renovation. The tower is steeped in history, having witnessed the coronation procession of Czech kings on their way to Prague Castl...

The European Space Agency announced its new team of astronauts at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris on Wednesday – and among them is Czech fighter pilot Aleš Svoboda. Svoboda is part of the reserve pool, but if he gets to go into space, he wi...

Lipavský tells new Iranian ambassador state must stop quelling protests

Rakušan: Czech presidency seeks EU-wide response to migration crisis

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Czech MMA fighter Procházka facing shoulder surgery

Nils Frahm brings Prague Sounds festival to close

Czech interior minister to discuss migration with central European counterparts

Czech pilot member of ESA astronaut reserves

Tereza Stehlíková is a film and visual artist engaged in cross-disciplinary research at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science. As well as an interest in landscape and place, Stehlíková has devoted much of her career to exploring how t...

Draft law on protection of whistleblowers approved

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The Czech Army must prioritise being able to fight in a largescale war against a sophisticated opponent, the Chief of the Czech Army’s General Staff Karel Řehka said on Tuesday at the armed forces’ annual meeting of commanders. Despite next yea...

Three hatchlings of little-known turtle species born in Prague Zoo

Government approves eight additonal national cultural monuments

Scientists at Mendel University in Brno are exploring the possibility of using cyanobacteria to clean up plastic waste in the oceans. After special treatment, the photosynthetic microscopic organisms could break down micro-particles of plastic waste...

Significant increase in cyberattacks

Czech European Affairs Minister: states must allow migrant ships in their ports

Poll: Trust in president slightly up since summer

IMF predicts Czech GDP will fall by 0.5 percent in 2023

GZ Media, based at Loděnice near Prague, produces vinyl records around the clock in order to meet huge demand. In fact the company, which also has three plants in North America, is the world’s biggest producer of a music medium that many thought ...

GZ Media: Czech firm is world leader in vinyl record production

Ukrainian soldiers to train in Libavá military zone

This year will see real wage decline in Czechia reach 8.3 percent, the largest such drop within the Visegrad Group (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), according to an analysis conducted by investment firm Cyrrus. Meanwhile, for next year the firm ...

Czech president: participation of Czech soldiers in foreign missions irreplaceable

Army chief of staff: Czech army must prepare for large-scale conflict

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Survey: Over 80 percent of Czechs use smartphones

Christmas tree erected on Prague’s Old Town Square

PM Fiala to attend V4 meeting in Košice

For several decades now, one of the most popular books among Czech readers has been The Egg and I by American writer Betty MacDonald. The 1945 memoir about life on a chicken farm in the Northwest has been largely forgotten in the United States, but ...

Christian Democrats want Petr Hladík appointed minister of the environment

Czechs relying on EU for security

The Senate is due to convene on Wednesday for its opening session after the elections and the first issue on its agenda is raising eyebrows. The upper chamber will address a proposal by two of its members for the Senate to hand out “fidelity” aw...

Nomura Holdings: Czechia at risk of currency crisis

A papier-mâché effigy of the Russian and Belarusian leaders Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, made famous at anti-Russian demonstrations in Prague over the past year and a half, has now been put to auction. Bidding starts at 10,000 euro...

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Czechia sending heavy bridge rigs to Ukraine

Archivists at Czech Radio have discovered 1,300 discs of recordings from the 1946 trial with Karl Hermann Frank, who was in charge of the Nazi security forces during the wartime occupation of Bohemia and Moravia. The discs are currently in the proce...

Record-high interest in subsidies for photovoltaics

Outgoing director of the Lány Forest Administration appeals mismanagement verdict

Free tests for HIV and hepatitis this week

Traditionally, the first snow of the winter season is meant to be brought to Czechia by Saint Martin riding in on his white horse on St. Martin's Day (November 11). This year, however, the first snow came to Prague a week later. On Friday night, th...

Václav Brožík is arguably the most famous Czech painter of the late 19th century and the best-known representative of the style of Czech historicism. His artworks, often addressing important moments of Czech history, grace some of the most import...

Medical Chamber wants to double fee for emergency care

Health minister in favour of introducing supplementary insurance

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Christmas trees for Prague on their way to the capital

Václav Brožík – painter of Czech history

Czechia struggling with shortage of nurses

Czech crown strengthening due to developments on global markets

Close to 9,000 illegal migrants detained on Czech-Slovak border since September

Real wages in Czechia see biggest drop in EU

Czechia preparing its own version of US Magnitsky Act

This year’s Czech Nightingales saw Lucie Bílá win her 21st Golden Nightingale for best female singer. She was also voted, for the twelfth time already, the overall Czech Nightingale winner of 2022. The best male signer award went to last year�...

On November 21, 1962, the Tatra T3 tram was put into regular service in Prague. It was a very modern tram for its time and would become a successful export product. Today, T3’s can still be seen transporting people in country’s such as Ukraine.

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Police investigating assault on journalists during anti-government protest

First snowfall complicating traffic around the country

Czechs planning to spend less on Christmas presents this year

Most manual workers in Prague moonlighting to make ends meet

Prague Archbishopric putting Jindřiška Tower up for sale

Defence minister visits troops guarding Czech-Slovak border

Czech foreign minister says allies should not dictate peace terms to Kyiv

The National Gallery in Prague has acquired a particularly valuable item – a wood carving of Mary sitting on a heavenly throne with baby Jesus resting on her lap and surrounded by three angels. The object is being called the Madonna from Havraň a...

The former home of the legendary Czech traveller Miroslav Zikmund in the Moravian town of Zlín opened to the public this month. The iconic functionalist villa, built in the 1930s by the Baťa Company, has been turned into a museum dedicated to Mr Z...

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Price of fuels drops further

Despite inflation, majority of Czechs optimistic about future

Lower house to vote on abolishing bill on electronic sales registers next week

President to pardon Polish couple convicted of importing and distributing hallucinogenic beverage

Don Hall grew up in the Deep South of the United States, in a poor, conservative, religious family. He became a successful evangelical Christian minister and was preaching to crowds of people all over the southeastern United States. But he was deepl...

Memory of Nations Awards honour those who resisted Nazi and Communist regimes

EU unblocks subsidies for Agrofert

Thousands attend protest march towards Czech TV headquarters