EU finance ministers agree on EUR 5 billion loan for Ukraine

EU countries propose using windfall profits from cheaper energy producers to aid consumers

With the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, her oldest son ascended to the throne as King Charles III. Not so many people outside of Czechia know, however, that Charles visited the country a number of times after the fall of communism in 1989,...

UK Embassy in Prague opens book of condolences for Queen Elizabeth II

Two-time Olympic champion and world-record holder Barbora Špotáková officially announced that she is ending her professional career as a javelin thrower on Friday. Špotáková is one of the most successful sportswomen in Czech history.

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Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on Thursday, is fondly remembered by many Czechs. Not least thanks to her visit to the country in March 1996, when she met with the then president Václav Havel and chatted with locals on Charles Bridge. One of th...

Javelin Olympic champion Barbora Špotáková announces end of career

Prague Art Week 22 festival gets underway in Czech capital

Covid infection rate continues to accelerate

Poll: Confidence in government at 36 percent

Flags at Prague Castle flown at half-mast in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II

US defence chief visits “Anthropoid” church in Prague

Czech leaders offer condolences following death of Queen Elizabeth II

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The City of Pilsen has completed a decade-long renovation of the Semler Residence, a striking interwar apartment designed by the pioneering modernist architect Adolf Loos.

Czech PM attends Dutch LNG terminal opening ceremony

A new monument, called The Return of the Stones, has been unveiled at the Old Jewish cemetery in Prague’s district of Žižkov. It is made out of fragments of tombstones from derelict Jewish cemeteries that were cut up into cobblestones during the...

Poland hopes Czech government will return 368 hectares of land

Czechia withdraws lawsuit against European Commission

Síkela: Czech gas storage filling despite Nord Stream 1 closure

All eyes will be on Brussels on Friday, when Europe’s energy ministers meet to discuss ways of tackling soaring power prices. The head of the European Commission has proposed capping Russian gas prices – but the Czech presidency of the EU is fir...

Jurečka: Govt. plan to alleviate energy crisis should be announced next week

Unemployment rose to 3.4 percent in August

Anti-drug coordinator: Czechia could soon legalise sale and growing of marijuana

Finance minister: Czechia has enough energy to last until end of next April

Síkela: Czechia will try to exclude price cap on Russian gas from EU energy ministers’ talks

Prague’s graffiti-covered John Lennon Wall was a symbol of freedom in the final decade of communism. Now it has been repainted by artists from all around Europe in a project that is part of the Czech presidency of the EU.

Czechia could send up to 1,200 soldiers to NATO’s eastern border from next year

PPF and Home Credit leave Russian market

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Fiala: Czechia and Poland have renewed cooperation on Stork II pipeline

Válek at EU health ministers meeting: We want cooperation on cancer treatment

According to unofficial data, there could up to ten thousand teachers and teaching assistants among Ukrainian refugees in Czechia. However, only between one to two thousand of them are actually working in Czech schools at the moment. The Ministry of...

Court to hand out tickets for Stork’s Nest trial

Press: Together group drop idea of fielding presidential candidate

Plzeň play first Champions League group game at Barcelona

Fiala: National energy plan will supplement or replace EU solution

Analysts: Slow in industrial output growth sign of looming recession

EU energy ministers to consider two Czech proposals at Prague meeting

Sunflowers of Hope is the name of a new project launched in cooperation with Prague City Hall and the city’s Ukrainian Embassy. Using Ukraine’s national flower as a symbol, it seeks to combine financial donations with messages of emotional suppo...

This week sees the long anticipated premiere of the most expensive Czech film in history. Medieval, or Jan Žižka as the film is being marketed in Czechia, cost around 450 million crowns and stars actors such as Michael Caine, Ben Foster and Til Sc...

Ex-NATO official Pavel launches campaign for presidency

 Archaeologists in Prague are currently uncovering a monumental building from the Stone Age. The so-called roundel, built around 7,000 years ago, is located in the district of Vinoř on the outskirts of the city. Experts are hoping that the researc...

Prague’s Clam-Gallas Palace reopens after major renovation

Plíšková reaches quarter-finals at US Open but Kvitová exits

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Prague EU health ministers meeting starts Tuesday evening

Fiala reiterates assertion Prague protest organised by pro-Russian elements

Czech leaders welcome election of Truss as new UK PM

Union leaders call demonstration in Prague for October 8

Ex-minister gets apology and compensation for wrongful prosecution

Union leaders meet in Prague to demand action on poverty

Saturday saw tens of thousands of people demonstrating on Prague’s Wenceslas Square against what they see as government mishandling of the energy crisis. Among the attendees were also members of hard left and hard right parties, many of them carry...

A memorial dedicated to Czech RAF pilot Josef František, who died on October 8, 1940, while returning from a patrol flight, was unveiled in Surrey in South East England on Sunday.

The Czech women’s ice hockey team beat Switzerland 4-2 in the bronze medal match at the World Championships in Denmark on Sunday, winning their first medal from a major tournament. The Czechs dominated from the start and claimed the biggest succes...

Real wages in Czechia fall 9.8 percent in second quarter

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Czech women third at hockey worlds in historic success

Big budget Jan Žižka gets Prague world premiere

Over 130 classic Tatra cars took part in the 53rd International Tatra Vintage Rally in Czechia’s Beskid Mountains at the weekend. The model pictured is a Tatra 603-3.

Average wage up to CZK 40,086 but down in real terms

Tennis: Krejčíková and Siniaková advance to US open quarterfinals

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Czech women’s ice hockey team takes World Championships bronze

Some 500 Ukrainians attend "March of Gratitude" through central Prague

Czech mountaineer dies in Italian Alps

Industry and Trade Ministry approves loan for energy companies EPH and Sev.en Energy

Number of Covid cases down after six days of slight increase

Tennis: Kvitová and Plíšková through to US Open fourth round

Hana Zagorová, one of the country’s most popular singers and a nine-time winner of the Golden Nightingale award died last week at the age of 75. In today’s edition of Sunday Music show we mark her long and successful career, during which she re...

This tragic event went down in the history of Czech criminology as the case with the largest ever number of defendants – the police charged 61 people in the scandal.

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Seventeen people injured after carousel collapses at funfair in Havířov

Czech women’s ice hockey team suffers 1-10 defeat to US

Czech kayaker Jiří Prskavec claims third overall World Cup title

Future UK Prime Minister invited to attend informal EU summit in Prague in October

Hundreds of Harley-Davidsons ride through Prague

Some 70,000 people protest in Prague against Czech government

Fiala: Opposition behaviour in debate will help govt. parties in elections

The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra will mark the Czech Presidency of the EU Council with a special concert on a floating stage on the Vltava River on Friday evening. The event will present some of the most iconic pieces of Czech classical music, but i...

Olomouc’s Palacký University is building a micro-brewery for its students. The new facility will be used to teach various aspects of beer, ranging from its earliest known recipes to its effects on the human body. A special course will be set up f...

Towns body says energy prices could lead to services reduction

The emergency corps of Czechia’s Fire and Rescue Service has a new team member and for the first time ever – it’s a woman. 23-year-old Michaela Žďárská will be serving in the Prague unit responsible for the Holešovice district.

EU ministers to meet Covid vaccine producers in Prague

Czech government survives no-confidence vote

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Czech duo knock Williams sisters out in first round of US Open

Czech writers plan readings for Rushdie

Czechia is not one of the countries that ranks very highly compared to fellow EU member states such as Germany, Austria and Belgium when it comes to recycling. With ambitious EU recycling targets set for the next decade, Czechia still has a long way...

Czech women’s ice hockey team advances into World Championship semifinals  

Fiala government confidence vote goes into second day

Prague could have a fifth, circular metro line in the future, which would offer connections to many of the city’s important districts, the Czech News Agency reports. On Wednesday, City Hall approved the commissioning of a study that will look into...

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US Secretary of Defence to visit Prague next week

Prague’s Signal festival of light art will celebrate 10 years of existence from October 13 to 16, again drawing tens of thousands of people to the city’s streets. Among the highlights this year will be a work referencing Ukraine by top Czech des...

Forum 2000 award presented to Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan

A team of experts from the Centre of Experimental Archaeology in North Bohemia is constructing a copy of a real Neolithic boat. The vessel will then be used to test out a hypothetical sea trading route from that era between Greece and modern day Tur...

Czechia and Poland join to protect Slovak airspace

Summer of 2022 fifth hottest in Prague’s history

Slight week-on-week increase in Covid cases recorded in Czechia

Number of road fatalities over summer holidays lowest in Czechia’s history

Czechia’s state budget deficit to reach CZK 270 billion in 2023

School year in Czechia begins

Entry to Bohemian Switzerland to remain restricted until end of September

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Seven new cases of monkeypox recorded in past week

Fiala: Russia’s attack on Ukraine was turning point like 9/11

EU foreign ministers agree to suspend Russian tourist visa agreement

Černochová: Czech army will probably not continue EU training mission in Mali

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91. He played a key role in the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain. In Czechia, Gorbachev’s legacy lies mainly in the hope for a better future that hi...

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President Zeman ratifies accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO

Hundreds arrive for public farewell to Hana Zagorová

A host of events are taking place in the coming weeks to mark the Czech presidency of the EU council, both in Czechia and abroad. One of them is an open-air concert hosted by the Czech Centre Paris, due to take place in mid-September, featuring popu...

Forum 2000 kicks off in Prague

EU foreign ministers debate visa ban for Russian tourists

Media: US Defence Secretary Austin to visit Prague to discuss F-35s sale

Pork crackling spread, or škvarková pomazánka, is a side dish you are sure to find in nearly every Czech pub. The spread, made of ground pork cracklings, lard and finely chopped onion, is usually served on a slice of bread. While not exactly a he...

Czech politicians react to death of Mikhail Gorbachev