Europe must take greater responsibility for its defence, says Pavel ahead of NATO summit

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (SOČR) is at home not only in Studio 1, but also on the most prestigious Czech concert stages: in the Rudolfinum, the Municipal House, and the Bethlehem Chapel. At the same time, it performs just as naturally on ...

In July 1926, Prague's Strahov witnessed an event that would leave a lasting mark on Czech and European sporting culture. The 8th Sokol Slet—the first major gathering held at the newly completed stadium—launched a century-long tradition of mass ...

Lower house speaker Okamura to visit China in the second half of July

Culture Minister Klempíř arrives in Karlovy Vary after skipping festival opening

In Karlovy Vary, moderator Řezníček discussed the role and importance of public-service media

Churches and Prison Service sign new agreement on spiritual care in prisons

Velehrad opens annual Days of Goodwill with rare St. Luke relic

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Survey: 80% of Czechs have concerns about their holidays, down from 84% last year

Hurvínek celebrated 100th anniversary in the US and Japan

Survey: Czechs are not concerned about blackouts, preparedness remains unchanged

Labour Ministry: One in five people retired from unemployment before the COVID-19 pandemic

Czechoslovak film to be featured in restored films section at Venice Film Festival

Office of the President confirms Pavel will fly to Ankara summit on government aircraft on Tuesday

Sales of new passenger cars in first half of the year rose by nearly 6% to 129,810 vehicles

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Almost two daily doses of medicine per person in Czechia last year

Karlovy Vary Film Festival opens today with Dustin Hoffman honoured

  Neil Bermel is Professor of Czech Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield, where he has been teaching for nearly three decades. He was among the scholars who gathered in Prague for the Seventh World Congress of Bohemian Studies an...

Czech billionaires eye stake in Italian tyre maker Pirelli

Czech cereal harvest forecast to fall by nearly 16 percent

More than six centuries after Jan Hus was burned at the stake in Constance, historians are taking a fresh look at one of Czech history's defining figures. Medievalist Eva Doležalová of the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences expl...

Rising temperatures and declining oxygen levels are causing more frequent fish die-offs in Czech rivers, prompting new efforts to monitor and protect freshwater ecosystems. Scientists and water authorities are deploying advanced technologies to trac...

Lehečka and Bouzková reach third round at Wimbledon

Dustin Hoffman arrives in Karlovy Vary to receive Crystal Globe award

Government approves Czech position for NATO summit

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Fire service remains Czechia's most trusted institution, government ranks last

Electric car sales hit record high in Czechia in June

Scabies cases in Czechia up 40 percent in first half of the year

Pavel tells Babiš to back claims over NATO summit row or retract them

An exhibition now on display at Prague's Holešovice Market Hall explores what it means to grow up between two cultures. Little Hanoi: Next Generation combines large-scale portraits with personal stories to introduce the children of Vietnamese immig...

Military police clear Czech soldiers over Ukraine drone deliveries

Czech Security Council resumes debate on new military strategy

Storm dumps 100 mm of rain in two hours in eastern Czechia

Security Council to resume debate on army strategy

Over the past weekend, Czechia experienced an extreme heatwave that broke all previous records, with the highest temperature ever measured on its territory reaching 41.9°C. But was this just an isolated weather event, or a glimpse of what summers i...

The jubilee 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival gets under way in the West Bohemian spa town on Friday. 2026 also marks 80 years since the event’s foundation, an anniversary that the organisers say places Karlovy Vary in a...

Many people have been suffering from the heat here in the Czech Republic, with all-time record temperatures registered on consecutive days at the end of last week. One group particularly at risk in such extreme weather are the homeless community.  ...

Foreign minister says president will receive NATO summit mandate

More than 600,000 people in Czechia expected to be living with cancer by 2030

Czech music rights group plans lawsuit against AI company Suno

Prague boosts police patrols in busy tourist areas for summer

MPs back bill curbing president’s role in diplomatic appointments

President says government denied him NATO summit mandate and cut delegation

Throughout July, the Author's Reading Month (Měsíc autorského čtení, MAČ) will bring together Czech and international writers in a literary format unlike any other in Europe. This year’s guest of honour is Greenland, whose little-known lit...

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Storms leave thousands without power as lightning injures six at Czech summer camp

Building connections and making new friends can enrich both your personal life and your career. In Brno, Hungarian entrepreneur Ágnes Boháčová Szabó has made it her mission to help people do just that

Culture minister says he assured president public media reforms pose no threat

Court upholds Czech tax revenue allocation formula for regions

New registration system for dog owners starts in Czechia

Six taken to hospital after lightning hits tree in South Moravia

Prague Zoo has welcomed a new Cape fur seal pup, the great-grandson of the legendary Gaston, whose dramatic escape during the devastating floods of 2002 made headlines around the world. I discussed the latest arrival and Gaston's lasting legacy with...

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Coalition party want Zelensky stripped of high Czech honour

Women get reduced jail terms for killing of cult leader

Lieutenant General Miroslav Hlaváč has officially become the new Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces. Defence reporter Kateřina Gruntová of Seznam Zprávy says his appointment promises continuity in military priorities while ope...

Experts quit human rights councils over reorganisation

Scholars from 25 countries have gathered in Prague for the 7th World Czech Studies Congress, held this year under the theme Literature and Languages in Dialogue. I spoke with Dalibor Dobiáš, a researcher at the Institute of Czech Literature at the...

Miroslav Hlaváč symbolically takes over as head of Czech Army

Poll: ANO on 35.5 percent support, Motorists below threshold

Macinka sorry for “unintended promotion” of festival where he was booed

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Koubek steps down as Czech football coach

Czech rescue team continues searching rubble in Venezuela, experiences minor aftershock

President Pavel accredited for NATO summit, Czech delegation to be led by PM Babiš

Nine out of the ten highest temperatures in the Czech Republic are from the past weekend

Scorching heat failed to deter visitors to this year's International Folklore Festival in Strážnice, South Moravia. One of the highlights was the final of the Slovácko verbuňk, a traditional male solo dance often accompanied by song. This year's...

Crime in Czechia is not rising, but cases involving high aggression among children are increasing

Czechs show the highest interest in apartments in Italy this year, Spain was the top choice last year

Who should represent Czechia at the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara has become the latest flashpoint in the conflict between President Petr Pavel and the government. Political commentator Martin Čaban of Seznam Zprávy told Vít Pohanka that the qua...

Prague archbishop Přibyl receives the pallium from Pope Leo XIV, symbol of service to the faithful

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Experts: Raising teachers' salaries to 130% would require an additional CZK 35 billion

After nearly nine years in Prager's Cubes, Prague's Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP) is closing its current home as the landmark brutalist building undergoes a long-awaited renovation.  Just before CAMP closed its doors on S...

An American choreographer working with local residents on the banks of the Sázava River. Performances filling historic courtyards, streets and parks. CorresponDance has grown into an international celebration of contemporary dance rooted in the Cze...

Government to announce final line-up for Czech NATO summit delegation

Czechia records hottest night of current heatwave

Fourteen Czechs to compete as Wimbledon gets under way

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Krpálek takes bronze at Judo Grand Prix in China

Czechia records first official temperature above 41 degrees

Czech rowers win overall World Cup title after silver in Lucerne

ANO leads June poll, STAN comes second

Foreign minister says PM to lead Czech NATO delegation, president to attend

Czechia records another tropical night as heatwave continues

Czech rescue team arrives in Venezuela after deadly earthquakes

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra has called the legendary Studio 1 its home since 1935. A space that was once among the most modern in Europe became the setting for thousands of recordings, hundreds of premieres, and countless musical moments tha...

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Věra Linhartová, pioneer of Czech experimental prose, dies at 88

František Wiendl, anti-Nazi and anti-communist resistance fighter, dies at 102

Temperature record falls in Czechia, reaching 40.6°C

Muchová wins Bad Homburg title ahead of Wimbledon

Tropical night recorded across a fifth of Czechia as heatwave continues

Friday deadliest day on Czech roads this year

Czech rescue team departs for Venezuela after deadly earthquakes

Social worker: For homeless people, summer is now as risky as winter

Chamber of Deputies approves controversial coalition change to rules for employing civil servants

International experts confirm cause of last July's power outage

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A huge concrete wall in Prague's Ruzyně district is being transformed into one of Europe's longest collaborative murals. Thirty artists from Czechia and abroad are taking part in the project, which will become a permanent open-air gallery. RF went ...

Czech politics are currently dominated by a Constitutional Court ruling allowing President Pavel to attend a NATO summit next month, despite the Babiš government’s efforts to block him. But what will actually happen in Ankara? I discussed the sit...

Prague police arrest two nationally wanted men in a single day

Twelve EU countries led by the Czech Republic call for a delay to methane emissions rules

Where land was once drained, water is now being held back. Forest managers in Western Bohemia are reversing decades-old practices by creating ponds and wetlands designed to retain moisture and support a more diverse forest landscape.

Heat records broken across Czech Republic as extreme temperatures mount

Czech striker Patrik Schick retires from international football after World Cup exit

Chef, food writer and cookbook author Evie Harbury is the author of My Bohemian Kitchen, which introduces international readers to Czech food through recipes and personal stories. Inspired by her childhood between England and the Czech Republic, the...

Czech urban search and rescue team to help out in earthquake-hit Venezuela

President says he will lead Czech delegation to NATO summit

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Mayors urge PM Babiš to dismiss foreign minister over “coup” remarks

The Czech national team's World Cup campaign ended with an early group-stage exit, leaving supporters frustrated and demanding answers. Karel Häring, chief football commentator of Canal + Sport,  believes the disappointing performances cannot be b...

Czech PM attending Gdańsk conference on Ukraine's reconstruction

Czech lower house backs tighter conditions for Ukrainian refugees receiving benefits

Four hundred years ago, the elephant Hansken was a European attraction that also visited the town of Mladá Boleslav. Today, in the same place, a metal sculpture of her has been created as part of the 13th edition of the Metal Symposium, which once ...

President says disputes with government make him more likely to seek re-election

ANO's Prague mayoral candidate withdraws from politics