Founder of Czechia’s modern trade union movement Richard Falbr dies at 85

GPs to gain the right to prescribe more specialty drugs

Environmental groups urge PM to curb aggressive rhetoric of Motorist party members

Czech Senate to mark 30 years since establishment

Muchová advances at Roland Garros, Lehečka defeated in first round

The Czech hockey team lost to Norway at the World Championship for the first time since 2010

53% of people would like Pavel to remain president

Coalition proposes expanding exemptions from public media fees

The line-up of the 2026 Prague Sounds multi-genre music festival has just been announced. Names such as sitar star Anoushka Shankar, jazz pioneer Shabaka and electronica-and-visuals wizard Max Cooper will appear at a variety of venues in the city du...

New Apostolic Nuncio to the Czech Republic is Irish Archbishop Nugent

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Prague Castle’s Renaissance jewel, the Royal Summer Palace of Queen Anne, better known as the Belvedere, is closing to the public for nearly two years as a major restoration project begins. The Prague Castle Administration has launched the extensi...

Fuel price regulation will continue in June, the government has decided

Koudelka: Rather than a massive Russian attack, the greater threat is an attack on a NATO state

Supreme Audit Office: Hospitals used some of the money intended for COVID recovery inefficiently

Chief of the General Staff: The current security situation is the most complex since the Cold War

The 2026 Speedway Grand Prix at Prague’s Stadion Markéta featured a showdown between the elite riders of world speedway. Pictured are Max Fricke, Adam Bubba Bednář, Jason Doyle and Brady Kurtz.

Rescuers freed five trapped cavers in Moravian Karst

Sudeten German gathering in Brno ends with tribute to Nazi victims

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Thousands protest Sudeten German congress in Brno

Rescuers work to free five cavers trapped in Moravian Karst

FM Macinka to seek delay in decision on Czech NATO summit delegation

Sudeten German gathering in Brno hailed as historic step in Czech-German ties

Police detain man over threat against Sudeten German gathering

Prague bans outdoor fires as dry weather raises wildfire risk

Bavarian PM Söder hails first Sudeten German congress in Czechia as historic

Data-stealing malware remains top cyber threat in Czechia

On 25 May, 1996,  Czech javelin thrower Jan Železný threw 98.48 m at a small meet in Germany where he reportedly travelled „just to test his form“. The world record set in Jena in 1996 still stands today and remains one of the toughest record...

Exactly 85 years ago, on May 24, one of the most famous American singer-songwriters, Bob Dylan, is born. A few years later and several thousand kilometres further east, another baby sees the light of day for the first time – Jozef Frídl, who woul...

Saharan dust to return to Czech skies on Sunday

Housing in Czechia has outpaced wage growth, analysis finds

Bavarian premier to address Sudeten German congress in Brno

Czechs edge Slovakia in world championship thriller

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Czechia records first tropical day of the year

Czech NATO envoy warns against falling below defence spending target

For the first time in its 76-year history, the Sudeten German convention is being held in the Czech Republic rather than Germany. Around 3,000 people, including Czech and German participants, are attending events in Brno, while thousands more joined...

The Guardian: President Pavel urges tougher NATO response to Russian provocations

Thousands join reconciliation march recalling Brno’s post-war expulsion

Czech direct budget costs linked to Ukraine war fell last year

Open forests day offers a closer look at Czech forestry

Sudeten German congress continues in Brno

Czech researchers have discovered that nanoplastics can weaken the lungs’ natural defence system, raising fresh concerns about the health risks posed by the tiny particles now found almost everywhere in the environment. Using a special microscope,...

Sudeten Germans join Brno neighbourhood festival amid protests

Babiš says state considering sale of explosives maker Explosia

Estonian minister at Globsec: Support for Ukraine boosts Europe’s security

Philadelphia-Prague flights resume as Czechia seeks more long-haul routes

Prachatice becomes first Czech city to receive Tour de France cycling title

Austria to continue border checks with Czechia, says interior minister

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Holocaust memorial opens Meeting Brno and Sudeten German congress

Špindlerův Mlýn Ski World Cup ends with CZK 24 million loss

Rubio thanks Czechia for taking in American doctor exposed to Ebola

Exhibition on Czech cottages phenomenon opens in Prague

Czech, German presidents praise reconciliation against backdrop of Sudetens meeting

This week saw the launch of Jsem Tu Novej (I’m New Here), a book by the British ambassador to Prague, Matt Field. Proceeds from the autobiography, which takes its title from a social media campaign that quickly made the freshly arrived diplomat we...

Russian ambassador concludes mission in Prague after over decade

Plans for overhaul of Prague's Miloš Forman Square revealed

Slavia pair in 29-man squad for pre-World Cup training camp

This weekend, more than 100 usually inaccessible buildings and spaces across Prague will open to the public free of charge as part of the Open House festival, whose theme this year explores the link between historic preservation and urban developmen...

Orchard owners in several regions are dealing with the consequences of the frosts. According to preliminary estimates by the Fruit Growers Union, the harvest will be roughly half of the average, and the damage could reach hundreds of millions of cro...

President pledges Constitutional Court move if Babiš omits him from NATO summit delegation

At the Fragile Security conference organised by Czech Radio, political, military and intelligence leaders debated Europe’s future security in an increasingly unstable world. Czech President Petr Pavel, Ukrainian envoy Valerii Zaluzhnyi and other p...

Representative: Václav Havel Library to continue despite turmoil

Pavel: NATO and EU not competitors in European security space

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President Pavel to open Globsec, European Parliament president among speakers

President Pavel: Russia will remain the greatest threat to Europe in the coming decades

Czech hockey team claim third win at World Championship against Italy

Frost damage to fruit crops expected to exceed CZK 1 billion, growers say

Macinka would like to complete embassy move to Jerusalem

Five countries, including Czechia, propose staged EU integration model for Western Balkans

Beneš decrees are no longer an issue for us, says head of Sudeten Germans in Berlin

Prague has ranked sixth among thousands of destinations in the latest global congress rankings, confirming its place among the world’s leading conference cities. International conferences bring significant economic benefits, with delegates spendin...

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Czech Banking Association lowers forecast for this year’s economic growth

Bém: Moving anti-drug policy could lead to collapse of the addiction prevention system

China willing to restore healthy relations with Czechia

New plaques at Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery pay tribute to staff at the city’s Jewish Museum who saved countless valuable artefacts during the Holocaust. The memorial helps mark the 120th anniversary of the foundation of the museum, one of the o...

Czechia is set to receive an American doctor exposed to Ebola while treating patients in Uganda. He is due to arrive in Prague on Wednesday evening at the request of the United States. Health Minister Adam Vojtěch says the case poses no risk to the...

Škoda Auto has officially unveiled its smallest and most affordable electric vehicle to date, the new Škoda Epiq, during a world premiere in Zurich. The compact crossover represents Škoda’s latest step in its rapid expansion of electric mobilit...

Bakala to end support for Václav Havel Library amid internal disputes

Czech Senate head to join Brno Reconciliation March

Bavarian premier says Sudeten German Congress offers reconciliation

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Czech property price growth slows in first quarter

When psychiatrist Jaroslav Skála opened the world’s first medically supervised sobering-up station, he wanted to help intoxicated people rather than punish them. Although his idea revolutionised immediate care for intoxicated people, sobering-up ...

Czech drug policy coordinator Pavel Bém to be replaced

Soviet flag at Brno Council meeting to be investigated

Eighteen people injured in tram-bus collision in Prague’s Záběhlice district

Former drug policy coordinator criticises planned transfer of anti-drug agenda to Health Ministry

E.ON distributor challenges Czech Energy Regulator over electricity prices

Czech Semicon Days 2026 focusing on semiconductors and strategic technologies

A two-year-old lynx named Bardi has completed what experts say is the longest lynx migration ever recorded in Czechia. The young male travelled from the Šumava region in the far south of the country all the way to the German side of the Krušné Ho...

In a sports hall in the Czech town of Pelhřimov, a dream from the age of steam and brass finally lifted off the ground. A nearly three-meter-long replica of the Albatross - the fantastical flying machine from Jules Verne’s 1886 novel Robur the Co...

Czech Constitutional Court confirms final composition of lower house

Israeli foreign minister in Prague for talks on ties and Middle East

Czechs edge Sweden in thriller to bounce back at Ice Hockey Worlds

Czech president ready to appoint new army chief

Pesident Pavel backs Brno festival hosting Sudeten German gathering

The annual GLOBSEC Forum is set to bring over 2,000 guests – including presidents, ministers and business and civil society leaders – to Prague later this week. Run by the think-tank GLOBSEC, the strategic conference will deliver dozens of in-de...

Government backs higher parental allowance for newborns from 2027

Havel still seen as Czechia’s best post-communist president, poll finds

A once-neglected passageway inside the iconic Prague apartment building known as Molochov has been transformed into a new gallery space. The opening exhibition features works by illustrator and artist Jakub Bachorík. 

The story of the theft of the skull of Saint Zdislava, which shocked the nation last week, has a happy ending. The police found it in time and restorers say it will be preserved for future generations. However, questions still remain about when and ...

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Czech Radio: players admit role in Czech football match-fixing scandal

The Náměšť Air Base Open Day & Air Show at the 22nd Helicopter Air Base Sedlec, is one of the largest military aviation events in the Czech Republic. The event, which attracts thousands of visitors, aims to present the capabilities of the Czech ...

Czech coalition to debate public media funding overhaul

Czech mortgage lending surges despite higher interest rates

Open House Prague invites public into hidden buildings across the city

Czech ice hockey team loses to Slovenia 2–3 in overtime at the World Championship

Bulgarian singer wins Eurovision for the first time, Czech singer Žižka finishes 16th

More harmful emissions are increasing, but inspections of smoking cars are decreasing

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Baxa warns against signs of authoritarianism at memorial ceremony in Terezín

The government will discuss an increase in the parental allowance and an amendment to motorway vignette rules

PM Babiš: Coalition to discuss the public service media bill on May 25

The skull of St. Zdislava was successfully removed from the concrete; it remains intact