Seven charged with subsidy fraud following police raids on Brno City Hall

Czech ambassador to Russia summoned over Czech House dispute

Finance minister says windfall tax will not be retroactive

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Foreign minister presents Gratias Agit awards to eight laureates

A fifth of Czech companies considering layoffs due to rising energy costs

PM: Czechia would like to see cap on gas prices for electricity production

Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša is set to become music director of the Royal Opera House in London. The 41-year-old Hrůša, who is currently chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, will take over from Antonio Pappano in 2025. However, he will serve ...

Windfall tax to be retro-active for 2022

In addition to buying four dual-source battery-electric trains from the Škoda Group, Czech Railways is also preparing major tenders for several dozen more such vehicles.

The 2022 Gratias Agit awards were presented at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague on Wednesday. This year the prize, which recognises efforts to promote the good name of Czechia internationally, went to seven individuals and one institu...

Say “Tesla” and most people think of electric cars. But here in Czechia people associate the brand name with a wide variety of electronic products they grew up with. During the communist era Czech households relied on Tesla radios, Tesla TV sets...

MPs cut president’s budget over conviction of forestry official

MPs approve 2022 state budget deficit of CZK 375 billion

Hladík ministerial role in doubt after police raids

Currently, only one EU country has legalised recreational cannabis – and despite popular misconception, it is not the Netherlands, where the sale of cannabis is tolerated at licensed coffeeshops, but cultivation, supply and possession of cannabis ...

The country’s counterintelligence service BIS traditionally performs quietly and efficiently behind the scenes. But on Monday it was at the centre of media attention due to a rare visit by the prime minister, the first in 24 years.    

MPs to vote on increasing 2022 state budget

Office of candidate for minister raided by police in Brno

Poll: Pavel would defeat Babiš in presidential election first round

Babiš corruption trial to resume in December

PM Fiala says Czechs will not stay silent on Moscow building move

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Hrůša to become music director of London’s Royal Opera House in 2025

Government to consider legalizing marihuana

Russian authorities order removal of fence around Czech House in Moscow

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.

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Popular Czech actor Josef Somr passed away on Sunday at the age of 88. He played the womanising train dispatcher Hubička in the Oscar-winning 1966 film Closely Watched Trains and starred in The Joke, released in 1968.

Judges warn courts “on verge of collapse” due to low salaries of court employees

Czech counterintelligence reports on Russian agent with close links to some politicians and journalists

Mene Tekel festival kicks off in Prague on Monday

Museums getting EU funding for reconstruction

Rise in pensions will increase state deficit in 2023

A new memorial to war veterans was unveiled at War Veterans Alley at Rajhrad near Brno at the weekend. Pictured by the monument, which takes the form of a tree is Jakub Bruno Středa, veteran of a Czech mission to Afghanistan.

The shooting dead last week of two young gay men in the Slovak capital Bratislava has also rocked the LGBT community in Czechia, with many drawing a link between negative portrayals of sexual minorities and acts of violence. I discussed that issue w...

First stage of Barrandov Bridge reconstruction complete

Production costs in all sectors rise year-on-year

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Interior Minister: checks on Slovak border will probably continue beyond October 28

Popular theatre and film actor Josef Somr dies at 88

Over three and a half thousand visas granted to Ukrainian refugees in past week

Spirits to become 15 to 20 percent more expensive

Several hundred attend demo on Wenceslas Square in support of Ukraine

Another 37 migrants arrested in Zlín region in 24-hour period

The last trolleybus route in Prague, from Orionka to Strahov Stadium, came to an end on 15 October 1972.

The Russian-born American conductor Semyon Bychkov, who has served as music director and the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra since 2018. In September, his contract was extended for another five years.

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Forest Restoration Day takes place across country for third time

Czechia unable to find oil supplier for third time

22 illegal migrants arrested in Zlín region in 24-hour period

Znojmo church gets three new bells after 80 years

Survey: fifth of small investors reducing investments to cover expenses

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