Weekday covid infections drop below 2000 for first time in six weeks

Anna Fodorova is the daughter of the well-known Prague Jewish author Lenka Reinerová – but is a successful novelist in her own right, as well as a practising psychotherapist and former animator. On a recent trip to the UK, I had the pleasure of ...

Lower house approves Czech Magnitsky Act

Prague is hosting the 10th edition of the annual Signal Festival of light art this week. Well over a dozen venues across the Czech capital have been transformed into light installations that are spread across two routes around the Vltava river and t...

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MPs approve amendment to copyright law drawing criticism from Google

The Lauder School of Prague, the only Jewish educational institution in Czechia, is marking 25 years since its foundation this year. The school, which opened its first class in 1997, celebrated the anniversary this Thursday, on the occasion of the J...

Czechia presents reform proposal to EU migration policy

Two Czech cities finalists for European Capital of Culture 2028

The story of a young wolf found lying in a ditch with serious injuries after being hit by a car moved thousands of Czechs and started a crowdfunding effort to help save the animal’s life.

Covid numbers continue to drop

Dolní Morava suspension footbridge among winners of 2022 Building of the Year contest

Czech movie Il Boemo to hit cinemas in October

Property prices are expected to fall or stagnate in Czechia next year, Czech Television reports, citing statistics from the Czech Banking Association as well as statements from the country’s leading developer companies. The stop to more than a dec...

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Sales of hybrid cars up by 20.5 percent year-on-year

State spending on Ukrainian refugee crisis reached CZK 16.9 billion by end of September

Czechia along with NATO allies aims to jointly obtain air defence systems

Poll: retired army general Pavel would win first round of presidential election

Recently a Czech crowdfunding campaign collected CZK 33 million for a tank for Ukraine named “Tomáš”, making international headlines. This was the brainchild of Gift for Putin ( Dárek pro Putina ), which uses colourful projects to raise cash ...

The Czech government has responded to Russia’s intensified bombing of civilian targets in Ukraine by closing its doors to Russian tourists with Schengen visas. The cabinet also approved a plan for Czechia’s participation in the reconstruction ef...

Tenth Signal festival of light starts in Prague

Plzeň lose to Bayern for four defeats in four Champions League games

Czechia to ban Russians with EU visas travelling for tourism or sport

While the Ještěd ski resort in the north of Czechia started making artificial snow this week in preparation for the winter season, other ski centres around the country are facing the prospect of a shorter season or are closing down altogether.  

Poll has ANO clear winners in elections, Christian Democrats far below cutoff

According to the findings of the Czech School Inspectorate, schools have a problem finding and identifying gifted children. Teachers tend to focus more on pupils with special educational needs as they lack experience and training in identifying and ...

In the wake of worrying reports regarding the quality of care for patients in Czech mental hospitals there is a push to expand the existing network of mental health centers, which help people to avert the onset of serious problems requiring hospital...

Minister: Planned pension cut for top pre-1989 officials will affect 3,000

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First head of Czech Army Karel Pezl dies at 95

No world championship medal for judo’s Krpálek

EU energy ministers discuss readiness for winter in Prague

Czech Railways still working to clear Kolín-Prague corridor in wake of accident

IMF downgrades growth forecast for Czechia

The Czech furniture brand TON is synonymous for its manually bent wood furniture, created with the help of a technology that has been in continuous use for more than 160 years. The company, widely considered to be the founders of modern furniture t...

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Brno Theatre will not have to apologize to Cardinal Duka over controversial plays

Czechia is facing the “worst security threat” in its modern history and “Russia is the Third Reich in colour”. Strong words of warning could be heard on Monday from the various heads of Czech intelligence who gathered at a special conference...

V4 heads of state discussing war in Ukraine, global security and energy issues

The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize was awarded on Monday to Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian dissident who is currently in jail for speaking out against Putin’s war in Ukraine. Michael Žantovský is head of the Václav Havel Library, one of the f...

Labour minister proposing to raise minimum wage

Prague hosting informal meeting of EU energy ministers

Czech Embassy in Kyiv remains open, no plans to withdraw staff

B9 heads of state condemn bombing of civilian targets in Ukraine

A parody event backing the “annexation” of Kaliningrad to Czechia was held outside Russia’s embassy in Prague on Monday.

Inflation in September rose to 18 percent y-on-y

Radka Denemarková novel Hours of Lead wins Brücke Berlin prize

ČEZ: LNG from Netherlands port already being used in Czechia

Danger of Russian subversive operations in Czechia, BIS chief warns

All three winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize are people or organisations from the former Soviet Union: the imprisoned Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organization Memorial, and the Ukrainian Centre ...

Two Czech projects among winners of 2022 European Citizen’s Prize

Czech officials condemn Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities

With prices rising fast – and a vocal minority against the country’s support for Ukraine – some are concerned that tensions in Czech society could intensify this winter. A large “Czech Republic first” demonstration on Prague’s Wenceslas ...

Hospodářské noviny: Škoda Auto to begin selling cars in Vietnam from next year

Unemployment rose in September for first time since 2013

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Coronavirus epidemic receding in Czechia

Last week the European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti greeted the Czech capital on Twitter from the International Space Station, attaching a picture of the city from space. Prague was hosting the European Space Week at the time.

The Czech minister of defence says the country’s army is stepping up the defence of strategic infrastructure due to the threat of Russian sabotage. Jana Černochová says Moscow is trying to weaken the arms industries in states that are helping Uk...

Vladimir Kara-Murza wins Václav Havel Human Rights Prize

Barbora Krejčíková wins Ostrava title

Czech Defence Ministry wants to increase protection of critical infrastructure

Poll: ANO would win parliamentary elections with 29.5 percent of vote

Mr Spex wins annual Grand Pardubice steeplechase

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Czechia confirms second case of Covid’s Centaurus subvariant

Sokol Memorial Day honours the memory of more than 1,500 members of the nation’s oldest athletics association, who were arrested by the Gestapo on October 8, 1941 by the order of Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich.

Soldiers deployed to guard border with Slovakia

Tennis: Krejčíková to face Swiatek in Ostrava final  

Thalia Awards handed out in Prague

Dimitrij, which premiered in Prague at the New Czech Theatre on October 8, 1882, was Antonín Dvořák's most ambitious grand opera. Set to a libretto by Marie Červinková-Riegrová, with a plot derived from Ferdinand Mikovec's Dimitr Ivanovič –...

Nearly 160 migrants detained on border with Slovakia over past two days

Czech Interior Minister attends MED5 meeting in Cyprus

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Škoda Auto boasts one of the oldest unbroken histories among car manufacturers still operating in the world today.

Trade unions hold demonstration in Prague over costs of living

Czechs mark Sokol Memorial Day

Tennis: Krejčíková through to Ostrava semi-finals

Nashville Predators beat San Jose Sharks in Prague season opener

European Union leaders wrapped an informal summit at Prague Castle on Friday agreeing on giving more financial and military aid to Ukraine, but making no final decisions on how to tackle soaring energy prices amid a decline of gas supplies from Russ...

Hynek Martinec, a Czech artist originally from Broumov in northeastern Bohemia, won the BP Young Artist award at London’s National Portrait Gallery in 2007 for his hyper-realistic portrait of his partner, Zuzana, beating 1,869 other contenders....

EU leaders discuss separation of gas and electricity prices at Prague summit

The NHL Global Series is returning to Prague this Friday and Saturday, with the San Jose Sharks and Nashville Predators set to face off in two games at the Czech capital’s O2 arena. Local fans are especially excited about the chance to see Prague-...

The archive of the world-famous writer Milan Kundera is currently in the process of being transported to his home city of Brno, where the collected works are being catalogued and digitised by the staff at the Moravian Library. The archive should ope...

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Czech ministers to meet with Ukrainian government in Kyiv at end of October

EU summit takes place in Prague

Bavaria increases checks at border with Czechia

Demonstration outside venue of EU informal summit

A small farmer in the Opava region in the north-east of Czechia made a unique discovery while working in a field, unearthing a golden belt dating back to the Bronze Age. The ornamented piece, which is exceptionally well-preserved, should go on displ...

Finance Ministry proposing windfall tax for companies in energy, banking and fossil fuels

ECP meeting in Prague hailed a success

Czech PM meets with British counterpart ahead of EPC meeting in Prague

More than 40 leaders gathered in Prague on Thursday afternoon for the first ever summit of the European Political Community. It is a new grouping set up by France that also includes many states that are not EU members. At the summit I discussed its ...

According to a freshly released survey conducted by the education firm Scio, four out of ten Czech elementary school students between the ages of 11 to 15 say they often encounter verbal abuse in their class and 13 percent reported that physical abu...

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EU approves eighth sanctions package against Russia

Czech scientists develop method of detecting forgeries of artistic photographs

Gas consumption down by 20 percent in 3Q

Psychiatrist Jan Cimický facing multiple rape charges

Alena Saladiaková's original profession is a wedding coordinator, but two years ago her career  unexpectedly changed course when the family decided to acquire two Alpacas as pets. Now she and her husband own four Alpacas and have established a bus...

Qatari Emir ends his visit to Czechia prematurely

Prague hosts inaugural meeting of European Political Community

The Qatari head of state, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, is currently on a state visit to Prague where he is meeting not only with Czech leaders but also with several other European representatives on the backdrop of the European summit in the Cze...

With 100 days until Czechs elect a new president, the bookmakers have Petr Pavel as favourite. Andrej Babiš had been expected to go head to head with the ex-army man, though it is not clear whether he will run. Meanwhile the governing Together alli...

Survey: more than 80 % of Czech second level elementary school pupils experience bullying 

Border controls with Slovakia extended until October 28

Czech President Zeman and Emir of Qatar sign agreement on economic cooperation

Vladimír Posolda to become new head of civilian intelligence service

Škoda Auto boasts one of the oldest unbroken histories among car manufacturers still operating today. It is the fifth-oldest company in the world still producing cars, after Daimler, Opel, Peugeot, and Tatra, another Czech company – meaning that ...

A joke petition calling for the annexation of the Russian port city of Kaliningrad to the Czech Republic has received nearly 12,000 electronic signatures since it was posted on the website petice.cz last Tuesday. It was set up amid a wave of memes o...

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Renáta Kellnerová tops Forbes Czech rich list

Covid-19: highest number of hospitalised since April

Designblok festival gets underway in Prague

Plžen beaten 5:0 by Bayern in Champions League

Fiala to meet Truss on sidelines of Prague European Political Community meeting

No hearing with Okamura over derogatory comments in lower house

Jurečka: Zeman will quickly facilitate appointment of new environment minister