MP elected to lower house on ANO ticket quits party

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Czechs mark 108th anniversary of country’s independence

National Theatre actors announce strike alert over government steps

Among this year’s recipients of the Gratias Agit Awards, presented by the Czech Foreign Ministry for promoting the country’s good name abroad, was Geraldine Manolas, a British-Czech citizen and granddaughter of Czechoslovak wartime officer Bohus...

October 28th is Czechoslovak Independence Day, marking the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918.  Czechs will commemorate the 108th anniversary of the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic with a host of events, including a ceremony at the Vítkov ...

Czech, Slovak prime ministers unveil sculpture together in Prague

Arts minister removes Petr Dvořák as head of board of Czech Audiovisual Fund

Ministry plans to introduce truck tolls from mid-2027

Industry body says extraordinary tax on refineries threatens sector

Brno, Prague students join protests over government media funding move

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Prague hosted an international training event where ophthalmologists from 11 countries practised complex surgical procedures using artificial eyes, biological tissue and state-of-the-art technology. British eye surgeon Johnson Neo says simulation al...

The St Nicholas bell tower in Prague’s Malá Strana once warned the city of fires. During the communist era, it served a very different purpose: the secret police used it to spy on Western diplomats. A new exhibition now invites visitors to discov...

Opposition to challenge law curbing president’s powers at Constitutional Court

Police and lawmakers to investigate removal of visitors from lower house gallery

Government backs criminal procedure amendment limiting powers of appeal courts

Government extends fuel price regulation until November 30

Government nods to proposal to enshrine Czech crown in Constitution

President Pavel to promote 16 military and security officials on Czechoslovak Independence Day

The Czech government's surprise move to abolish television and radio licence fees has triggered an angry parliamentary debate and demonstrations in Prague and Brno and other big cities. Critics warn that the proposed switch to state-budget financing...

The Babiš government’s fast-tracking of legislation to end license fees and fund Czech Television and Czech Radio from the state budget – including a first reading vote passed in the early hours of Saturday – sparked protests at the weekend. ...

Halloween may be a foreign tradition, but it is gradually catching on in Czechia. At Liberec Zoo, the annual Spooky Zoo event transformed the grounds into a world of skeletons, vampires and other spooky creatures. 

More than 30,000 hens to be culled at farm in South Bohemia over salmonella

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Siniaková climbs 37 places in singles rankings after Osaka triumph

Consumer confidence and economic outlook weaken amid rising energy prices

First Czech-Hungarian intergovernmental consultations to take place in Prague

PM Babiš on working visit to Algeria to boost energy and defence cooperation

PM Babiš says coalition will not withdraw public media funding bill

Thousands protest in Prague against plans to abolish public media fees

Top prosecutor backs lowering age of criminal responsibility to 13

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Czech Foreign Ministry warns against travel to Saudi Arabia over Houthi attacks

Siniaková wins Osaka title for sixth WTA singles crown

Strong winds halt upper section of cable car to Sněžka

People donate CZK 8.5 million for November 17 commemorations

Earlier this month, the Pavel Haas Quartet made headlines once again when it won the prestigious Gramophone award for its latest album featuring Martinů’s string quartets.  It was the 6th music “Oscar” for the internationally acclaimed ensem...

When Ferdinand I of Habsburg sought the Bohemian crown in 1526, he needed fast and reliable communications between Vienna and Prague Castle. This led to the creation of the first regular postal route in Central Europe.

Pirates seek Okamura’s removal as speaker of Czech lower house

Pavel urges politicians to calm tensions over public media funding bill

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Siniaková reaches first WTA singles final in three years

Czech bishops urge lawmakers to retain public media licence fees

Clocks to go back one hour as daylight saving time ends

European journalists’ and broadcasters’ organisations criticise Czech public media bill

Czech photographer wins American Meteorological Society’s photo contest

Government bill to abolish license fees for public broadcasters approved in first reading

Public broadcasters announce strike action in protest of government’s plans to abolish license fees

Slovak PM Fico to visit Czechia ahead of Czechoslovak Independence Day celebrations

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The Foreign Ministry has presented its annual Gratias Agit Awards to Czechs and foreigners for promoting the good name of Czechia abroad. This year, 12 personalities and one organisation received the awards. I attended the ceremony at Czernin Palace...

What started as friends premiering their amateur movies has grown into a meeting point for a community of freeskiers. At this year’s Prague premiere, films ranging from urban rail tricks to world-class freeriding showed why freeskiing appeals to b...

Coalition pushes ahead with plan to abolish Czech TV and radio licence fees

Egon Bondy’s 1973 novel Unsound Siblings (Invalidní sourozenci) was recently published in English for the first time. The book is regarded as a classic parody of Czechoslovakia’s Communist authorities and is a fascinating document of the underg...

Public donate over CZK 6.5 million for November 17 celebrations in Prague

Martina Sáblíková to become assistant coach after retiring from speed skating

Czech MPs approve key parameters of 2027 state budget with CZK 386 billion deficit

Czech President Pavel among candidates for Ukraine peace negotiator, The Telegraph reports

Czech Technical University hit by cyberattack

Police investigate violent road-rage attack on D6 motorway

EU court rules Czech law breaches right to a lawyer during police questioning

Czech Foreign Ministry honours 13 laureates with Gratias Agit awards

Former communist secret police officer given suspended sentence for persecuting Catholic dissident

The current El Niño climate pattern has already reached unprecedented intensity, and scientists believe it will have a devastating impact when it approaches its peak in the months ahead. While the “Super El Niño” will mainly hit Pacific Ocean ...

Englishman Luke Dale first came to Prague as an actor in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a video game set in Bohemia in the early 1400s that became a major international hit. Dale has since moved to the city, where he recently opened Nobleman. He describ...

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President Pavel: Europe must unite to avoid becoming irrelevant

Volkswagen crisis reaches Škoda Auto as pay freeze looms until 2030

Culture Ministry withdraws funding for November 17 celebrations

Czech MPs to continue debate on 2027 state budget

Pavel to discuss European security and support for Ukraine in Berlin

The Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival , one of the largest events of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, opens its 30th edition on Friday. The program features more than 350 films from around the world, a retrospective section of ...

Merz receives Pavel for talks on Czech-German relations and security

Karolína Muchová qualifies for WTA Finals in Indian Wells

Pavel and EU defence commissioner discuss closer cooperation with Ukraine

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Macinka calls for stronger Central European cooperation in EU

Tomáš Satoranský to retire from Czech national basketball team

70-metre mining tower demolished at former Karviná coal mine

Defence Minister: Czech army recruits nearly 3,700 soldiers this year

President Pavel: Defence depends on rapid adoption of new technology

Looking at paintings, creating art or attending a concert as part of mental health care. Cultural institutions are joining forces with experts from the National Institute of Mental Health to explore how cultural activities can support mental well-be...

Communist Konečná joins Patriots for Europe at European Parliament

Slavia secure late draw with Fenerbache in Champions League

A molecule developed in Olomouc could help cereal crops make better use of water and nutrients from their earliest stages of growth. Known as TFU, it is being brought to European farmers by British company INTRACROP under a licensing agreement with ...

Cabinet to discuss new army strategy next week

A historic Spitfire fighter aircraft that served with a Czechoslovak squadron of the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War has returned to Czechia after decades abroad. It was officially unveiled at Točná airfield in Prague, drawing ...

Press: Ambassador would like to have Russian experts “explain actions in Ukraine” to Czechs

Jakub Hruška of Christian Democrats to be Brno mayor after coalition agreed

The father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud was born 170 years ago in Příbor, northern Moravia. The house where he was born is open to the public following an extensive reconstruction, and this year his hometown has prepared a special exhibition to...

Prizes presented at opening of Prix Bohemia radio festival

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Historic Spitfire used by Czechoslovak RAF squadron returns to Czechia

Government approves changes to teaching assistants and inclusive education

PM Babiš calls on media to avoid manipulation and personal attacks

Tripartite reaches agreement on new pay scales for public sector workers

Doctors call for national plan to tackle chronic pain

Education Ministry considering ways to tackle growing aggression in schools

Czech foreign minister criticises US defence chief over remarks on Afghanistan allies

The former Rolava-Sauersack tin mine in the Ore Mountains was once a site of forced labour, built by the Nazis. Now, archaeologists are using scanning technology to create a virtual reconstruction of the abandoned mine, known for its striking concre...

Czech ministry to set up advisory team on rental housing

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Czechia rejects Finnish proposal to tighten visa rules for Russians at EU level

The traditional fish harvest in Šumvald offered several species of freshwater fish, including carp, grass carp, pike, zander, catfish and tench. There is good news for fish lovers: despite this year’s extreme heat and drought, supplies of fish ar...

ANO failed to take a single constituency in second round run-offs to one-third of the seats in the Senate, in which the Mayors and Independents scored biggest. But is ANO chairman Andrej Babiš right to call the outcome of the elections “disastrou...

Czech Foreign Ministry warns travellers about unrest in France

Senate to challenge parts of civil service law at Constitutional Court

Government postpones planned cut in corporate tax

Historic Spitfire from Second World War to be unveiled in Prague

Czech government and unions to resume talks on public sector pay rises

ANO proposes debate on single-round Senate elections

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Protesters urge Babiš to save Prague’s historic railway bridge

Senate speaker invites Babiš to attend upper house sessions

Number of women in Czech Senate falls to 14 after elections

Czech President Pavel to meet German Chancellor Merz in Berlin next week

Prague paramedics see sharp rise in teenagers suspected of cannabis intoxication

When 18-year-old Czechoslovak tennis player Martina Navrátilová sought political asylum in New York during the 1975 US Open, she became overnight a symbol of resistance to communist rule and a rising star of world tennis. She lost her homeland but...

The Czech bluegrass band Druhá tráva with Robert Křesťan were formed 35 years ago this year. Celebrations are set to culminate with a show in Prague.

Babiš calls ANO’s Senate election result ‘catastrophic’

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Median poll: ANO party support falls to 29.5 percent as STAN rises to 17 percent

Alexander Choupenitch wins opening Fencing World Cup event in Japan

STAN and ODS win Czech Senate elections, ANO fails to gain a seat

Petra Kvitová returns to tennis courts seven months after giving birth to twins

Prague’s restored Industrial Palace opens to the public for free

One in 11 babies born in Czechia last year was a foreign national

Czech Senate run-off elections resume across the country

The 14th edition of Prague’s Signal Festival is transforming parts of the Czech capital into an open-air gallery of digital art and light.

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Hrůša and Bamberg Symphony win award for Martinů recordings

Eurostat: Czechia has fourth-lowest inflation in EU despite September rise

Czech President Pavel says he paid for Morocco trip himself

Czechia records third-highest number of cyber incidents in a year

Tomki Němec is a Czech documentary photographer best known for his work with the late dissident playwright and president Václav Havel. He accompanied Havel from 1989 to 1992, a period he has described as one of the most powerful and positive exper...

The 14th edition of Prague’s Signal Festival is now underway, transforming parts of the Czech capital into an open-air gallery of digital art and light every evening until Sunday October 18.

Last week the Pavel Haas Quartet picked up a prestigious Gramophone award for the album Martinů: String Quartets Nos 2, 3, 5, 7. It is by no means the first Gramophone prize for the Prague-based classical ensemble, who BBC Music Magazine named one ...

Czechia seeks emissions scheme delay as EU budget divisions persist

Czechia pushes for emissions scheme delay as EU summit exposes divisions

Czech voters return to polls for Senate run-offs

Prague’s Signal festival opens with light installations at 17 locations

Czechia and Visegrád partners seek delay to EU emissions scheme

Municipalities challenge nuclear waste plans with European Commission

Prague Zoo has scored a rare breeding success, becoming the first in Czechia to breed the orange-breasted fig parrot. The tiny, colourful species is notoriously difficult to breed in captivity and is kept at only three other institutions in Europe. ...

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Czechia’s tallest structures demolished in Liblice

Czech company bankruptcies reach highest nine-month total since 2016

Former referee handed 15-year football ban for corruption

Two 355-metre-high radio transmitter towers in Liblice, Central Bohemia, were demolished on Thursday.

The Czech Health Ministry is preparing changes to the law aimed at adapting the healthcare system to what officials describe as the fastest population ageing in the country’s history. “Prevention” is the operative word in the new strategy, wit...

The Czech Ministry of Culture has recently approved a new state arts policy, changed grant application guidelines and said it would reassess the support it provides to organisations in the field, including festivals. Some in the arts sphere are cryi...

PM Andrej Babiš rejects proposed EU budget revenue sources

Czech army chief warns Russia could test NATO unity with limited attack

Czech farmers can apply for aid over Middle East crisis

Prague’s Signal festival opens with light installations at 17 locations

Czech MPs approve late-night voting on legislation

Salvation Army clinics for homeless people face doctor shortages

The annual Signal Festival of light kicks off in Prague on Thursday, with 21 installations by Czech and international artists across the city. For the first time this year, the festival will take visitors to Dejvice and feature a dedicated zone show...

Czech computer games are currently one of the country’s biggest export articles, with games such as Mafia, Kingdom Come or Vietcong selling millions of copies worldwide. Now one of the top players in the Czech gaming industry - Amanita Design, is ...

Chinese citizen denies spying charges at Prague trial

Transparency International says EU confirms Babiš’s conflict of interest

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The unique Arctic-like tundra landscape of the Krkonoše Mountains in northern Czechia is  gradually disappearing as rising temperatures allow shrubs, tall grasses and dwarf bushes to spread across the mountain ridges. The Krkonoše National Park a...

Senators challenge law allowing government to cap fuel prices

Opposition criticises civil service changes as MPs reconsider vetoed bill

Nečas scores twice as Adam Jiříček nets first NHL goal

Czech mortgage lending rises in September as interest rates increase

Prague court opens trial of Chinese citizen accused of spying

Tomáš Souček extends West Ham contract until 2028

Coalition MPs urge Pavel to disclose Morocco holiday costs

The human heart can show signs of trouble long before heart failure develops. A scientist in Brno is researching how routine ECG tests could help doctors detect these warning signs. Her work has won first prize in an international competition for yo...

Czechia welcomes new EU budget proposal, with certain reservations

Culture Ministry to review cooperation with major cultural institutions

ČEZ to challenge Luxembourg court ruling in Diag Human case

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Czech inflation rose to 2.5 percent in September

The Polévka, která pomáhá or Soup that Helps charity organization earned its record number of sales for a rainy day this weekend in the town of Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav north of Prague, raising over 300,000czk for the Brandýs Mental H...

Czechia's mountain passes are important corridors for birds migrating across Europe each autumn. In the Krkonoše and Jeseníky Mountains, ornithologists observe and ring birds travelling from northern Europe to wintering grounds as far away as Indi...

IMF downgrades Czech economic growth forecast

MPs to debate windfall tax on oil refineries

Budget committee backs draft budget for 2027

Prague coalition talks to focus on policy priorities

Water retention and infrastructure among priorities in fight against drought

BIS chief warns of possible Russian attacks on NATO territory

PM Babiš berates coalition partner for commenting on European affairs

Czechia’s local elections were the first nationwide vote since Prime Minister Andrej Babiš returned to power in 2025. In a special episode of Czechast, political scientist Vladimíra Dvořáková explains why the results should be interpreted cau...

Junior ruling party wants EU leaders to negotiate with Russia over Ukraine

Two-time Olympic champion Lukáš Krpálek (white) won a bronze medal at the World Judo Championships in Baku. He defeated Finland’s Martti Puumalainen before the time limit in the over-100 kg bronze-medal bout, claiming his sixth medal at the Wor...

Environmental group Hnutí Duha to seek enforcement over Turek’s apology

The Bílá pastelka campaign held annually across Czechia will kick off in mid-October. It aims to help people with visual impairments to live more independent lives and enable them to engage in a broader scope of activities.

Pavel warns of AI risks as Forum 2000

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Support for ANO party declining, poll finds

Czech industry and trade minister on working visit to India

Coalition talks underway; Prague coalition deal expected in November

Czech government officials and experts to assess response to extreme drought

Burmese dissidents receive Forum 2000 award

Irish horse Final Orders wins Velká pardubická steeplchase

The heart of Czechia's library network

Fiala: Freedom and Direct Democracy election results not a success

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The Christian Democrats won the most seats in municipal elections held around the Czech Republic on Friday and Saturday. The Mayors and Independents won in Prague, while ANO came first in six regional capitals.

Babiš: Europe must respond to Trump deal to import Russian diesel

Mayors and Independents come first in Prague elections

Elections seen as success for Mayors, Christian Democrats

Christian Democrats do best among parties in local elections

Five candidates make Czech Senate in first round of elections

David Koller, one of the best-known Czech rock musicians, has released his sixth studio album. Called Nebudem se bát, or We Won’t Be Afraid, it features a number of prominent guest artists, including the world-famous guitarist Al Di Meola. You ca...

Number of candidates reach Senate in first round of elections

Votes being tallied in Czech local and Senate elections

The first round of elections to one-third of the seats in the upper chamber of the Czech Parliament, the Senate, took place on Friday and Saturday, when polling stations closed at 2 p.m.

Czech artist and teacher Vladimír Kopecký dies at 94

Macinka hopes Putin will also want to discuss peace after diesel deal with US

Polls close in Czech municipal, Senate elections

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Police car falls into Vltava after crashing on Prague bridge

Nosková reaches WTA Finals for first time

Voters going to polls in second day of municipal, Senate elections

Petr Pavel returns from holiday to vote in Czech municipal elections

Drought cuts Vltava hydropower output to half the long-term average

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Online exhibition explores Václav Havel’s role as host to world leaders

Czech-US memorandum aims to boost business cooperation

Two Czech nationals charged in Cambodia in drug-related case

Czech under-21 footballers to face Turkey in Euro qualifying play-off

Czechs are among the leading nations in Europe when it comes t o growing food at home . Indeed, a CVVM survey published this week found that no less than 70 percent of people in Czechia cultivate their own fruit and veg – 62 percent in their garde...

Falling water levels at the Lipno reservoir in Southern Bohemia have uncovered dozens of gravestones from the former cemetery in Dolní Vltavice, a village that was flooded in the 1950s. Experts are now recovering the stones and considering how best...

Freak accident leaves truck trapped under Prague railway bridge

David Pastrňák scores four points in Boston's 6–1 NHL victory over Utah

Czechs head to polls in municipal and Senate elections

A new exhibition at Prague’s Museum of Decorative Arts, part of this year’s Designblok, shines a light on mass-produced lamps made in Czechoslovakia from the 1950s to the 1980s. I went to have a look and spoke to the exhibition’s curator Eva S...

Czech candidate narrowly misses out on IIHF presidency

Constitutional Court upholds movement restrictions in Šumava National Park

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Czechia responds to EU concerns over PM Babiš's conflict of interest

President Petr Pavel has come in for criticism after his office announced that he will not vote in local elections on Friday and Saturday because he is on a private holiday. Czech heads of state almost always take part in elections, so is Mr. Pavel�...

Ladislav Špaček is a Czech writer, television journalist and presenter, whom Vaclav Havel handpicked to serve as his spokesperson between 1992 and 2003. In the course of that decade, which Špaček describes as the most exciting and rewarding peri...

Hepatitis A outbreak in South Moravia could worsen this autumn

Czech unemployment remains at five percent for third consecutive month

Czech retail sales growth slows to 4.3 percent in August

Drought drains Czech reservoir as water restrictions take effect

Czechs prepare for municipal and Senate elections

Pavel Haas Quartet wins musical ‘Oscar’ for Martinů recording

Water shortage declared on Vltava and Labe rivers in Central Bohemia

A new book by the late Czech writer Ivan Klíma has just been published, almost 25 years after he wrote it. His family only discovered the manuscript after his death. 

Culture minister criticizes writer Radka Denemarková's Frankfurt Book Fair speech

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PM Babiš calls national drought coalition meeting

Czech Constitutional Court upholds existing noise limits