Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra opening 81st Prague Spring festival Tuesday

Pavel and Babiš agree to changes in list of new ambassadors

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Duo sidelined by Slavia after derby included in World Cup preliminary selection

Environmental groups urge PM Babiš to stop Motorists’ verbal attacks against them

Bavarian Premier Söder to attend Sudeten German Congress in Brno despite protests

Czech government plans defense budget increase this year to meet NATO commitments

The biggest classical music festival in Czechia gets underway on Tuesday as the 81st edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival opens with Bedřich Smetana’s Má vlast, performed this year by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Thi...

Last winter Nico Moro managed to walk from Třebíč all the way to the Olympics in Milan. He covered more than 920 kilometres on foot in 31 days and gained many fans and supporters. Less than three months later, he already has a new goal – Fribou...

Czech soccer has made international headlines for all the wrong reasons, after the Prague derby between Slavia and Sparta was abandoned when Slavia fans stormed the pitch – and attacked Sparta players. Slavia were just moments away from lifting th...

Sports minister seeks working group on stadium safety after Prague derby violence

Environment Ministry says funds available to deal with aftermath of national park fire

Former Orthodox abbess sentenced to six years for embezzlement

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Prague Astronomical Clock statues undergoing restoration

Prague police warn of scam offering paid bank app testing

Czech central bank raises deficit forecast, sees strong wage growth

Do you know who a groomer is? It is a dog hairstylist. At the international GrooMasters competition in Prague, 140 of the best dog groomers from Czechia, Slovakia, Germany and even Canada showcased their precision and skill in grooming and styling d...

Czech pension system could end year with CZK 20 billion surplus

PM and minister of defense to select candidate for new army chief

Czech tourist accommodation bookings rise by 5.2% in first quarter

President Pavel to host US congressmen for talks on European security

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Senate speaker warns against dehumanising language at Roma Holocaust memorial

Kantar poll: ANO party would win elections

Babiš: Government to approve Landovský as NATO envoy on Monday

Disciplinary commission to examine abandoned Prague derby after crowd violence

STEM survey: Two fifths of young children spend over an hour a day on mobile devices

Czech woman struck by lightning in Austrian Alps, airlifted to hospital

Tuesday, 12 May marks the opening of one of Central Europe’s major classical music events – the Prague Spring Music Festival, which brings together leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists from around the world. To mark the occasion, we’ve d...

STEM survey: Czechs divided over defence spending

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Victory Day festival in Prague draws hundreds, police monitor event

Finance Minister Schillerová wants to renegotiate Czech spending plan with EU

Cold weather, rain and mountain snow expected in Czechia next week

Czech canoeist Fuksa shares World Cup gold with Russia’s Petrov in Szeged

Hamzová and Čechová become first Czech players in 16 years to join WNBA

Recently appointed children’s ombudsman seeks members for youth advisory team

Analysis: Average earners in Czechia lose around CZK 17,000 after retirement

Drone disrupts air traffic at Prague airport, police detain one person

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Czech and Belgian PMs call for lower energy prices in the EU

President Pavel promotes ten men to general ranks

Pavel and Babiš remain divided over Czech delegation to NATO summit

Journalists’ federation condemns Czech public media funding plan

Macinka and Wadephul sign memorandum extending Czech-German Future Fund

People across the Czech Republic commemorate the end of World War II in Europe

France awards Czech Army chief Řehka the National Order of Merit

Filip Šír from the National Museum in Prague has spent years researching into a series of remarkable wartime broadcasts made by the much-loved Czech duo Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich.  Their satirical sketches and songs, some of them in English,...

Three newly accused challenge prosecution in Bitcoin case

Fuel prices rise again, analysts say the situation remains tense

František Moravec, Jan Kubiš, Adolf Opálka and Jaroslav Krátky are well-known names to Czechs. They are paratroopers, who escaped to Great Britain where they were trained by the RAF and parachuted into occupied Czechoslovakia to fight the Nazis ...

A new exhibition is currently underway at the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures in Prague, marking 200 years since the birth of Vojtěch Náprstek, a remarkable 19th-century figure who was not only the founder of a museum, but...

Czech foreign minister to meet German counterpart in Berlin on WWII anniversary

A Sudeten German association’s plan to hold its first ever congress in Czechia later this month has become a hot button political issue. Now the prime minister has joined the debate, warning that such a gathering could harm Czech-German relations....

President Pavel to attend summits in Bratislava and Bucharest next week

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Household spending is rising as people try to save on travel and food

Industrial growth continued to slow, while construction output rose by 5.8%

Poll: ANO would clearly win general elections, Motorists would fail to secure seats

Monitored wolves in East Bohemia avoiding humans

Brno politicians want Stalin image removed from cemetery

Babiš against Sudeten German congress in Brno

Reporters Without Borders condemn threats against journalist under govt. MP post

Sidney Sevek Finkel survived the Holocaust as a child, enduring ghettoization, forced labor camps, starvation and a weeks-long evacuation transport from Buchenwald concentration camp to Terezín. Struck by typhus at war’s end, he recovered against...

Police treating forest fire as possible case of endangering public safety through negligence

Czech inflation rises to 2.5 percent in April

A fossil of a previously unknown arthropod species, Soomaspis labutai, has been uncovered in rubble during construction work on Prague Metro’s D line. Hidden beneath the city for nearly half a billion years, the find offers new clues about how som...

Thousands of people rallied in Prague on Tuesday in support of the country’s public broadcasters, amid growing concern over a government plan to scrap license fees and make them dependent on state funds.

Jewish organisations against Kanye West concert planned for Prague

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Electricity in Czechia sixth most expensive in Europe in 2025

Public broadcaster unions reject ministry’s claim of progress in talks on financing reform

Firefighters reduce Czech Switzerland wildfire to five hectares

Thousands rally in Prague in support of public media

Czech coalition to seek motion urging Sudeten German Congress in Brno be cancelled

President Pavel urges Czech Republic not to stay outside core European decision-making

Politicians, veterans and members of the public gathered outside Czech Radio’s Prague headquarters on Tuesday to mark the 81st anniversary of the Prague Uprising against Nazi rule. The uprising began on 5 May 1945, near the end of the Second World...

Jurečka elected head of Christian Democrat’s parliamentary group

Ceremony at Czech Radio commemorates Prague Uprising in 1945

The annual Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films kicks off on May 5 in the North Bohemian city of Liberec. This year’s programme features more than 500 animated films and games, alongside exhibitions, talks and other accompanying events...

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Prague metro construction leads to discovery of new prehistoric species

Fire safety checks reveal serious lapses in Czech nightlife venues

Hundreds of firefighters still battling Czech Switzerland blaze

Roman Červenka named Czech Ice Hockey Player of the Season again after ten years

Conference “Europe as a Task” opens at Prague Castle

More than a third of Czechia faces the most severe level of soil drought

Pavel and Stubb: Russia remains the most serious challenge to European security

Police charge three more in bitcoin case, media link former minister Blažek

Thousands gathered for the reopening of the Singing Fountain, a landmark of the spa colonnade, closed since last summer. The fountain underwent extensive restoration, including its visible features, lighting, jets and a full technology upgrade. 

Firefighters across Czechia had a busy weekend, responding to hundreds of fires amid extremely dry and unusually hot weather. The most serious blaze is still burning in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park in the north of the country.

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The government has approved the reinstatement of electronic sales registration

MEP Nagyová receives a suspended sentence and a CZK 500,000 fine in the Čapí hnízdo case

Pirate Party have turned to the EC over the use of EU funds to combat disinformation

Rare archaeological finds from the era of Great Moravia, including an ivory vessel believed to have been brought to the region by Saints Cyril and Methodius, are now on display at the Archaeological Museum in Modrá in the Zlín region. The new exhi...

Managers of Brno’s urban greenery are protecting trees from drought using injection and mulching

Conditions in the manufacturing sector have improved, with the index at its highest level in four years

President Pavel welcomes Finnish President Stubb at Prague Castle

The Convoy of Liberty drove through the west Bohemian city of Plzeň on Sunday within the Freedom Festival commemorating the end of World War II and the city’s liberation by the US Army in May 1945.

Firefighters reduce area hit by blaze in Bohemian Switzerland National Park

Babiš says Zelensky wants end to war, questions who can broker peace

Siniaková wins Madrid doubles title for 36th career trophy

Czech PM Babiš meets Ukrainian President Zelensky in Yerevan

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Convoy of Liberty passes through Plzeň within the annual Freedom Celebrations

Czech Radio: Burglars raided Armenian Embassy in Prague

Ethiopian and Kenyan athletes triumph at Prague Marathon

Czechia sees first summer day early, Sunday’s temperatures may reach 30°C

Karlovy Vary Airport could become military-civilian hub

Czech U-18 hockey team wins bronze at World Championship

Firefighters still battling blaze in Bohemian Switzerland National Park

Although it may seem that folk songs belong to the past, in Czechia they are still very much alive. They are sung at celebrations, feasts, harvest festivals, and family gatherings. Each region has its own melodies and its own stories, from lyrical l...

550 years ago, a woman died who would become more famous after her death than she ever was in life. Perchta of Rožmberk – known as the White Lady, the most famous ghost of Czech castles – was in reality a victim of political arrangements, famil...

Firefighters battling forest blaze in Czech Switzerland National Park

Former Czech NATO envoy Landovský to oversee alliance commitments agenda

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Prague Marathon to bring major traffic restrictions across city centre on Sunday

Czech Republic experiencing driest spring on record