Two-day military show gets underway in Moravia-Silesia

Special mass as Prague’s St. Ludmila’s officially becomes basilica

Lower house vote paves way for energy price caps

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Prague Zoo to get new female gorilla

Meteorologists: Zlín Region was hit by small tornado

Zelensky unlikely to attend Prague EU summit, says Czech Europe minister

Daniel Matejča is one of the most promising Czech violinists of his generation. At the age of 17, he is studying at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and has already won a number of prestigious competitions, including the National Arts Prima...

A huge statue of a dog, created by the leading Czech artist František Skála, was unveiled on Prague’s embankment on Thursday. The seven meters long animal, made out of wire, will be on display at the Náplavka for two weeks.

Sharp rise in demand for Czech coal from Poland

Exactly 150 years ago, on September 16, 1872, the first passenger train was launched on the so-called Prague Semmering, the most picturesque railway line in the Czech capital. The line, which is listed as a cultural monument, earned its nickname due...

News outlets on Thursday evening reported that a Czech diplomat with top security clearance had been caught handing classified information over to the Russians. However, a legal loophole means that the alleged mole could well evade prosecution.

ČTK: Army against turning military airport into gigafactory

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Fiala to attend Queen’s funeral with wife

Median survey: Babiš still in the lead, but Pavel gaining in presidential race

Slavia beat Ballani for first win of European Conference League group stage

Uncertainty over whether Czech accused of spying for Russians will face prosecution

Intelligence service: Czech diplomat handed over information to Russians

According to an analysis of the mobile data market published by the Czech Telecommunications Authority, retail prices for mobile data in Czechia are the highest in the EU. Czechs pay 150 percent more for mobile services than the EU average.

Municipal council elections are taking place in Czechia next Friday and Saturday and it’s not just Czechs who are eligible to vote but EU citizens too. But how exactly does one register? And is it possible to run in the elections as well? We took ...

MEP and would-be presidential candidate Blaško quits Okamura party

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Czech Swimming Federation says energy crisis may mean pool closures

Experts issue warning over gap between incomes and expenditures

Fiala: Govt. aims to reach 2 percent spending on defence in 2024

Prague’s huge Strahov Stadium could be transformed into a startup hub and testing centre. Next week should see the signing of a memorandum between Prague City Hall and the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), which counts on a EUR 485 milli...

Prague has its fair share of “secret” cafes and restaurants – places that you can only find if you know where to look. But La Paisanita, an Argentinian empanada eatery, probably takes the crown for the capital’s most hard-to-find food establ...

Mass in honour of Queen Elizabeth II to take place at Prague’s Saint Vitus Cathedral

Covid infection rate continues to accelerate

Fiala: Czech presidency to work with EC on reducing energy prices

Some Like it Czech, a project introducing foreigners to local culture via movies, returns to Prague next week. The organisers say many of their visitors are mixed Czech-foreign couples – and plan to launch their second season with the 1990s classi...

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Fifty-two cases of monkeypox detected in Prague since May

New-born girl found in babybox in Třebíč named “Elizabeth” after Queen

Some 120,400 Ukrainian refugees have found jobs in Czechia

Czechoslovakia’s first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, died in the early hours of September 14, 1937, exactly 85 years ago. His funeral took place a week later in Prague and was attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Newly digitised rec...

Heavy storm warning issued for parts of Czechia

Industry and Trade Minister plans CZK 30 billion energy aid for large businesses

Pirates: Legal marijuana could generate up to CZK 1.8 billion in taxes

Covid cases on rise for ninth day in row

Senate supports government's proposal to set power price caps

Construction of new Prague bridge over Vltava begins

Czech year-on-year inflation slowed in August, from 17.5 percent in July to 17.2 percent. This followed 13 months of continuous rises. Obviously inflation is still very high, but does this mean the Czech economy has finally turned a corner? I spoke ...

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John Malkovich to premiere one-man show in Prague

Mortgage interest rates increase for another month in row

Supreme Court overturns verdict for man accused of fighting with pro-Russian separatists

Trams ran up and down Prague’s Wenceslas Square in the past and are set to do so again. This plan has now taken another step forward, with the city’s transport authority issuing a public tender to build the necessary lines, Novinky.cz reported.

Second day of Stork’s Nest trial continues

Il Boemo has been selected as the Czech nomination in the Best International Film category in the Oscars. Petr Václav’s movie tells the story of composer Josef Mysliveček and will get its world premiere at the San Sebastian film festival this we...

Bořek Lizec is not just Czechia’s ambassador to Canada but also a man on a mission to track down the history of the many Czech communities in North America. He recently visited Radio Prague International’s studios to talk about Czechia’s sear...

Number of new Covid cases again reaches 3,000 a day mark

Czech government sets power price caps

Czechs to pull out of Russian nuclear institute by end of 2022

Síkela: EU should consider raw materials reserves system

The seventh edition of the VARY°Září festival of light took place in the West Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary at the weekend.

The city of Prague is due to have its first major institution dedicated exclusively to dance. Prague councillors have recently signed a memorandum on the construction of a House of Dance, which will be located in the former municipal spa in the dist...

This week sees the release of Good Old Czechs, a powerful new documentary about extremely brave Czech airmen in World War II. Entirely comprised of period footage and with narration read by actors, Tomáš Bojar's film draws on the memoirs of two av...

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, there was some debate as to what to call her successor. Until then he was known as Princ Charles, but almost immediately news organisations translated the name and called him Král/King Karel. So why the c...

Czech tennis duo Kateřina Siniaková and Barbora Krejčíková defeated their opponents in the US Open final on Sunday, meaning they have now won every major title in tennis doubles. But it was an extremely close game, and at first it was not at al...

Czechia records 17.2 percent rise in inflation in August

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Il Boemo selected as Czech nominee for Oscars

Babiš denies wrongdoing as fraud trial begins in Prague

Czechia’s population rises to 10.526 million

Krejčíková and Siniaková win US Open doubles

Lipavský expects EU members to be united on extending Russia sanctions

Czech PM to attend Queen’s funeral, president says

ANO comes in first in new Kantar poll, followed by Civic Democrats

Finance minister reveals details about national plan for tackling energy crisis

Saturday numbers show coronavirus cases continue to rise

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Síkela: People will start to benefit from EU energy crisis measures by January 2023

Prague Zoo gets male gorilla Kisumu from Austria

Survey: 56 percent think interior minister should resign

Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, who had Czech ancestry, was born on 12 September 1902. He is best known for building a new federal capital, Brasilia.

This Friday, September 16, an open-air concert at the Czech Centre in Paris will be taking place to mark Czechia’s EU council presidency, featuring popular young musicians Emma Smetana and Jordan Haj. In today’s Sunday Music show we’ll be list...

Freedom and Direct Democracy choose presidential candidate

2022 sees rise in number of tick transmitted diseases

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Friday sees Covid cases rise for fifth day in a row

Jakub Tomeček wins European Championships gold in mens skeet

Opposition calls for extraordinary meeting to look at social impact of energy crisis

Fiala hails meeting of energy ministers as a success

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

Poll: Confidence in government at 36 percent

Covid infection rate continues to accelerate

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