Dozens of Prague museums open late for annual night event

Czech army chief receives Ukrainian Order of Merit

Czech foreign minister speaks with Israeli counterpart amid escalating conflict

For the first time in history, a team of Czech students is taking part in the Shell Eco-marathon, global competition focused on energy efficiency, sponsored by the oil and gas giant. Until Sunday, the team from the Czech Technical University’s Fac...

Petr Brod, a veteran journalist who grew up in a Jewish, German-speaking family in Prague and moved to West Germany in 1969, was one of the recipients of the Medal for Merit in Diplomacy on June 3rd. After the ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Aff...

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Employers will have to contribute to private pension savings for workers in physically demanding jobs

Pirate Party says it will support no-confidence vote unless there is a government reshuffle

Czech FM at Globsec: Helping Ukraine is a strategic necessity for Europe

Czech FM voices understanding for Israel’s strike on Iranian nuclear facilities

The Hendrich family tomb in Skalná in the Cheb region, which was seriously damaged by vandals, was opened after a difficult reconstruction. After the archaeological research that preceded the reconstruction, experts also discovered the mummified re...

Construction work at upper end of Wenceslas Square expected to congest main motorway

Escaped puma captured in Sokolov region

Czechia trains 18 Ukrainian pilots

BIS head: No indication that any foreign power was behind bitcoin scandal

Activists with the Greenpeace organisation climbed onto the roof of the Tesla customer centre in Čestlice on June 11th, with banners and an image of Donald Trump and Elon Musk setting the world on fire.

Ronald Waterman is one of the last living Dutch Jews who passed through the Terezín Ghetto during World War II. At the age of 90, he still works, publishes in the field of environmental engineering, and speaks several languages.

Saint Wenceslas, the Czech patron saint, was a key figure in the early history of the Czech lands. Now, more than a thousand years after his death, an international team of scientists has recreated what the Christian martyr may have looked like, usi...

Globsec Forum 2025 opens in Prague

Thousands of fawns killed during mowing season

Search continues for escaped puma in Sokolov region

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Government approves changes in quotas for foreign workers

Roman Červenka receives Lifetime Achievement Award at European Hockey Clubs gala

Michael Douglas to present restored version of Forman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Czech president calls on US to give Europe more time to ensure Continent’s security

Soldiers will see increase in salaries from July

Senate rejects verbal assessment for pupils in grades 1 and 2 in primary school

Police intervened at Faculty of Arts in Prague

President Pavel: Blood donation is noble, donors inspire others

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Five finalists chosen in race to lead Czech Television

New cybersecurity rules passed by Senate

Cricket, while not a sport associated with Czechia, has many fans in the country, and is very much integrated into the wider world of the sport. From June 8th to 13th, the Central Europe Cup, a tournament organised by the Czech Cricket Union, has br...

PM Fiala talked with Korean President mainly about completion of Dukovany power plant

Czechs spend an average of 143 minutes a day on social networks

Chamber debate was again dominated by bitcoin donation scandal

Vintage car lovers from around Central Europe are getting ready for the annual “1,000 Miles of Czechoslovakia” race leading from Prague to the Slovak capital Bratislava and back. The festive event is traditionally accompanied by live music and a...

Czechs love a good bargain, whether it’s clothing, electronics, or groceries at an open air market.  So much so that many consumers often wait for discounts rather than buying at full price. But this weekend they got more than they bargained for ...

Major security exercise held at Prague Castle

Coalition leaders support government following late-night talks

Kožená and Rattle to receive Antonín Dvořák Award

Czechia slips in Europe’s inflation ranking

The Czech army will grow by several new garrisons. It plans to create a territorial defense battalion in every region within ten years, with new bases for logistics and air defense.

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At a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 3rd, Radek Špicar was among the honourees awarded the Medal for Merit in Diplomacy. Radek is a well-known face in the worlds of Czech business, finance and industry; he currently holds the po...

Over 1,000 to take part in 10th annual Yellow Ribbon Run

Czech football team suffers heavy defeat in World Cup qualifier

President appoints Eva Decroix as new Justice Minister

Two women sentenced to 13 and 12 years for cult leader’s murder

Wimbledon champion Krejčíková to start grass season in London

Prague court sends Columbian man to prison for eight years for arson attack

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Rakušan: News that STAN deputy Dvořák knew about bitcoins is intended to distract attention

One of the most influential figures in Czech film, cinematographer Vladimír Smutný, has died at the age of 82. With a career spanning over five decades, he helped define the visual style of many notable Czech films. Among his most celebrated colla...

Barbora Strýcová to lead Czech tennis team in Billie Jean King Cup

Climber Adam Ondra has announced his retirement from bouldering after Mejdi Schalck’s bouldering title win for France. Ondra has decided to focus solely on lead climbing. The Czech national team member did not reach the final at the World Cup in P...

Unemployment in Czechia fell to 4.2% in May, number of vacancies slightly increased

Acid leak from optics laboratories on university campus in Olomouc

Czechia awaits tropical weekend, temperatures to rise above 30 °C

Czech serving in Russian army previously convicted of crime

In the foothills of the Jeseníky Mountains, there is a unique narrow-gauge railway, the only one of its kind in Czech Silesia. In the summer season, tourists can enjoy a ride on the Silesian Provincial Railways trains.

Tariffs are a topical concept at the moment, and the Czech word clo is similar to the German over the border: Zoll . It was from medieval German that Czech took the word clo .  

Imagine Dragons to perform in Prague on Monday night

President to appoint Decroix as Minister of Justice on Tuesday

Mayors and Independents would support government in a no confidence vote

Czech Education Minister Bek greets Sudeten German Landsmannschaft as “compatriots”

Renowned Czech cameraman Vladimír Smutný dies at 82

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Thousands visit Pardubice Aviation Fair

For this week's Sunday Music Show, we’re bringing you a profile of a rising star in the world of composing: Darja Kukal Moiseeva.

Czech intelligence services preparing for return of people who fought in Ukraine

Pavel Blažek suspends membership in Civic Democratic Party, not to run in elections

Thirty-five years ago, on June -8-9, Czechs and Slovaks went to the polls in the first free elections held after the fall of the communist regime. Elections were held to both chambers of the Federal Assembly and the Czech and Slovak National Council...

Landsmannschaft honours Meeting Brno festival

President Pavel pays homage to American troops killed in South Bohemia in WWII

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Open Gardens event expected to attract thousands of visitors

Air Canada reintroduces direct flights between Toronto and Prague

Health ministry wants stricter norms for sale of e-cigarettes

Fresh thunderstorm warning for Moravia and Silesia on Saturday

Police warn new WhatsApp scam snowballing

Investigators into rail incident: Engine driver likely chose to override ETCS

Senegal releases Czech national

A small badge dating from the fourteenth century has gone on display in the Czech city of Opava. This unassuming object can tell us a great deal about how interconnected the world of a medieval Czech person really was.

Security drill to close Prague Castle on June 10

ANO deputy chair Havlíček: Fiala government should resign and govern in demise until elections

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Passenger train passes through red light signal, crash narrowly avoided

Median poll indicates trust in Civic Democrats and SPOLU sliding

Czech Cryptocurrency Association slams Justice Ministry for failing to do its job

ANO ready to initiate no-confidence vote in Fiala cabinet

Bitcoin debate in parliament ends without result

Thousands still without power after severe storms

The Pilsner Urquell brewery is the most visited destination in West Bohemia and one of the top 15 attractions in Czechia. On a typical day, it hosts around 40 guided tours in multiple languages, including Czech, German, and English.  On this specia...

A Czech science student has made a rare discovery on the island of New Guinea. František Vejmělka from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of South Bohemia became the first person in the world to capture the gian...

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Czechia to invest nearly CZK 29 billion in coal region transformation with EU funds

Rare night-shining clouds visible again over Czechia

Lipavský: Czechia sees no reason to lift sanctions against Russia

The sculptor Václav Lemon has been working on Olomouc’s central square to recreate a famous Baroque depiction of the Holy Trinity, only this time not out of sandstone, but out of sand!

Adam Ondra to say farewell to competition bouldering at Prague World Cup

Severe overnight storms cause hundreds of emergency callouts across Czechia

They are veterans from the 1970’s and because of their characteristic front windows resembling glasses, they were nicknamed “Brejlovec”. They may be old-fashioned, but these diesel engines are not ready to retire. Czech Railways has announced ...

Queen Máxima presents ‘Bell of Freedom’ to Prague church, forged from Ukraine war remnants

Babiš calls for government to resign over bitcoin scandal, opposition targets finance minister

Pavel accepts resignation of Justice Minister Blažek

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On June 3rd, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský awarded the Medal for Merit in Diplomacy to sixteen people and institutions who have made a significant contribution to Czech diplomacy and foreign relations. Danny Bate was present at the ceremony, and sp...

We see security and foreign policy in same way, said President Pavel after meeting with Dutch king

A month before its opening, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival organizers have unveiled the official line-up for this year’s 59th edition. Two Czech films—Broken Voices and Better to Go Mad in the Wilderness—will compete in the festi...

Supreme Administrative Court annulled measure prohibiting signing of the Dukovany contract

Chamber approves pension cuts for other Communist regime officials

Chamber rejects opposition proposals to increase part of care allowances for disabled

Real wages in Czechia up 3.9% in first quarter

Czech government to address bitcoin scandal

Coalition leaders meet and keep unity, opposition calls for resignation

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský on Tuesday awarded the Medal for Merit in Diplomacy to 16 institutions and outstanding personalities from different walks of life who have made a significant contribution to Czech diplomacy and Czechia’s good r...

Opposition calls for resignation of the whole cabinet

On Tuesday, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and his wife, Máxima, arrive in Prague. One of the highlights of the first-ever state visit of a Dutch monarch to Czechia will be the christening of a unique bell cast in the Netherlands for the ...