2020 Czech budget deficit largest in country’s history

Tuesday saw another record rise in coronavirus cases

Blatný: British mutation of COVID-19 not yet detected in Czechia

Health Ministry announces changes to coronavirus emergency level system

Health Ministry presents details of vaccination plan

Aktuálně: Entry into pubs and mass events could be made possible for people with vaccine

The cable car at Prague’s Petřín is set to get new wagons while its track will be completely replaced, officials said on Tuesday. The renovation will be carried out over the next four or five years at a tentative cost of CZK 210 million.

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 The Czech Jesuits have completed the first phase of the beatification of Adolf Kajpr, a priest and journalist who was imprisoned both by the Nazis and the Communists. The documents gathered to prove his beatification have been sent to Rome. The fi...

Babiš: EU is too slow in approving coronavirus vaccines

The Czech Republic registered the highest per capita rate of new Covid-19 cases in the world over the last week, when its figure for deaths per million inhabitants was fifth highest. Over 750,000 cases of the virus have now been confirmed since the ...

Czech police file charges in major corruption case involving drug prescriptions

Jesuits propose beatification of persecuted Czech priest Adolf Kajpr

Historic Petřín cableway to be revamped

Education Ministry adjusts secondary school entrance exam rules due to Covid-19

Covid-19: About 15,000 people in the Czech Republic vaccinated so far

Covid-19: Gov’t approves compensation for establishments forced to close

Medical faculties: students’ hospital work must be voluntary, adequately paid

ČHMÚ: Air quality in Moravian-Silesian region worsens

Registration for vaccination against the coronavirus will open for the over 80s in the Czech Republic from January 15, while all ages can apply from the start of February, says Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. The specific vaccination date will be base...

Czech telecoms regulator to launch mobile services price comparison index

Czech households spent a record high sum on alcohol in 2019, over CZK 90 billion, suggest newly released data by the European statistical office, Eurostat. The share of total consumption expenditure spent on alcoholic beverages amounted to 3.4 perce...

Poll: Czechs optimistic 2021 will be better year, still fear job loss, Covid-19 spread

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Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Milan “Mejla” Hlavsa, a key figure in the history of Czech alternative music. Hlavsa co-founded the Plastic People of the Universe and played with several other groups before passing away at jus...

Czech wines won record 1,100 medals in foreign competitions

Inspectorate: Ban on sale of alcohol to minors regularly violated

Supreme Court overturns libel judgment award for Václav Havel’s widow

Český Krumlov is probably the most visited small town in the Czech Republic. That is, when the times are normal and there are no restrictions on tourism. The COVID-19 crisis means financial hardship for local businesses. But on the positive side: ...

A lot of people set out for the peak of the mountain Ještěd in North Bohemia on New Year’s Day. This was despite the fact that the organisers, the Liberec Hiking Club, had been forced to cancel the 46th edition of the official event due to Covid...

Covid risk index falls but still in highest bracket

First and second grade pupils only return to Czech schools

Zeman to be vaccinated against Covid in second half of January

PM: Whole country can register for Covid vaccine from February 1

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One death in fire at Ústí region care home

Czechs knocked out of ice hockey World Juniors by Canada

Nearly 5,000 new Covid cases detected Saturday

Czech Covid risk index at highest level yet for third day

This ‘Best of 2020’ special edition our regular Sunday Music Show features a wide range of Czech artists, who experiment in and across a variety of genres – rock, pop, jazz, hip hop, swing, indie and electronic music. Each track has made the b...

The first public municipal hospital opened on January 2, 1791 in the building of the former New Town Institute of Noblewomen of holy angels on Charles Square in Prague.

Typical weather for January expected

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Souček secures win for West Ham in Everton clash

Major post-1989 political figure Petr Pithart turns 80

Nearly 49,000 Czechs apply for resident status in UK

Babiš calls for perseverance in fight against Covid in New Year’s speech

Czech Covid risk index again at 90 out of 100

PM apologizes for painful decisions, urges Czechs to get vaccine

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Top parliament officials call for solidarity and tolerance

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Health expert: Vaccine provides longer immunity than undergoing Covid

Brexit-related changes in force

2021 will bring lower taxes, increased pensions

New variant not yet detected in Czech Republic

New Year’s Eve celebrations muted

Czech Republic reaches 90 points out of 100 on Covid-risk scale

Margita (Dina) Štěrbová is one of the recipients of the 2020 Gratias Agit Awards for promoting the good name of the Czech Republic abroad. A mathematician by profession, Dina has a lifelong passion for mountain climbing and has scaled dozens of p...

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OKD mining company starting massive lay-offs

Night curfew will apply on New Years’ Eve

2020 budget deficit expected to be under 380 billion crowns

Brexit-related changes around the corner

Antigen testing free of charge will continue

Hospitals banned from performing elective surgery

Record daily increase in Covid-19 cases, 52 percent of those tested positive

2020 has been a long, tough and stressful year for many around the world. So we thought it’d be a nice idea to ask some notable people what they’ve been doing to keep their spirits up during the Covid-19 pandemic.

All teachers to be added to vaccination priority groups, says Education Ministry spokeswoman

New police data suggests crime rate fell in 2020

Neither rain nor sleet nor closure of ski resorts, lifts, hotels and services due to coronavirus have stopped Czechs from violating government restrictions and taking to the slopes, albeit on foot, cross-country skis and in toboggans. 

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Health Ministry promises to work out methodology of vaccination plan by January 5

Czech regions begin to receive coronavirus vaccines

Health minister: First week of January will be key in development of epidemic

Social Democrats to negotiate with other Parliamentary parties in order to sink new tax legislation

As the coronavirus spread in 2020, touching virtually every country in the world, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) adapted or scaled up its ongoing activities and started new activities wherever a pressing need arose. The Czech branch of MSF also launc...

Mf Dnes: Czech police to strengthen night patrols during New Year’s celebrations

The Association for the Restoration of the Czech Kingdom has raised money to make a copy of the St. Wenceslas Crown for Charles Habsburg. The grandson of the last Austrian Emperor Charles I, who was also the king of Bohemia and Hungary, will celebra...

Covid-19 risk at highest level, with record number of cases, positive tests on Tuesday

Czechia to send material aid to earthquake-hit Croatia

Czech Republic formally confirms EU-Britain agreement

Czech volume of cryptocurrency trading up a third

Education Minister requests priority vaccination for preschool, special school staff

It is exactly 31 years since Václav Havel became Czechoslovak president. The dissident was unanimously elected by a Federal Assembly largely thanks to the country’s then Communist prime minister and opinion polls at the time did not suggest that ...

The annual Three Kings Collection, the biggest fundraiser in the country, organised by the Catholic charity Caritas, has been forced to go online in 2021 due to the strict coronavirus measures in place. Nevertheless, its organizers hope that it will...

Covid-19 vaccinations start in Ostrava after logistics snag in Belgium

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Zeman returns tax package to lower house without signing it

Confidence in the Czech economy rose in December after 2-month decline

Czech parliamentary elections set for October 8-9

Covid-19: Record number of new infections on Monday

Three Kings Collection to be held online

President and PM to meet for traditional New Year’s lunch

UNICEF works in over 190 countries of the world to save children's lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential. This year its efforts have been complicated by the coronavirus pandemic which has worsened the situation in p...

Fire at Veolia power plant following explosion

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and a 95-year-old veteran of the Second World War were among the first people in the Czech Republic on Sunday to receive a coronavirus vaccine. In the coming days, some 10,000 people, mainly medical professionals and sen...

After nearly five years of negotiations, Britain and the European Union have reached an agreement on trade relations after Brexit. The announcement came on Christmas Eve, the traditional day when Czechs give each other presents. But was it a welcome...

Ice Hockey: Czechs beat Russia 2-0 at Junior World Cup

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Customs officials confiscate over 400 kilos of psychostimulant drug Khat

The Czech Development Agency was set up in 2008, under the Czech Foreign Affairs Ministry, with the aim to help eradicate poverty in the world and contribute to sustainable development. Where is it helping today, how are the countries for developmen...

The 74th Alfréd Nikodém Memorial event, an annual swim in the Vltava River on December 26th ,was allowed to go ahead despite the strict coronavirus measures in place.

Tatra Around the World 2 expedition will continue

Covid-19 risk index drops to fourth level over Christmas holidays

Vaccine brings prospects of economic growth

Czech Republic under full lock-down

Inoculation against Covid-19 underway

Zpívejme koledy (Let’s sing Christmas carols) is a newly released album recorded by the Czech Radio Children's Choir and the Brno Radio Orchestra of Folk Instruments on the occasion of the choir’s 75. anniversary, which it is celebrating this y...

A symbol of Prague and the largest castle complex in the world, Prague Castle was unusually quiet this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

The coronavirus pandemic has had a worldiwe economic impact, often most damaging to small businesses and the self-employed. Many of them are reliant on the Christmas season for most of their income, but with epidemic measures in force, Christmas mar...

Christmas in this country wouldn’t be complete without Jan Jakub Ryba’s Czech Christmas Mass from 1796, one of the most popular piece of Czech Christmas music ever written. But the small-town teacher and prolific composer created hundreds of oth...

Health minister appeals for discipline over the holidays

Despite the disappointing figures from the spring auction season, the anti-coronavirus measures did not affect the Czech Republic’s art market as much as experts predicted, the Czech News Agency reported this week.

The coronavirus epidemic has hit the Czech culture sector badly, especially live performers. Theatre productions have had to remain closed, with one exception. Loutky v nemocnici (Puppets in hospital) is a drama-therapy group that is still allowed t...

With more than 30 books and 1.5 million copies sold under his belt, Michal Viewegh is quite possibly the Czech Republic’s most popular contemporary author.

    A new book called Naše hory, lyže, sníh, (Our Mountains, Skis and Snow) explores the Czech passion for winter sports. It covers all sorts of topics, from skiing pioneers and famous ski races, to the tradition of post-war collective recreati...

Czech government announces full lockdown as of December 27

Veselé Vánoce! It’s Christmas Eve, traditionally the most important day for Czechs in this holiday season of good cheer. It is on this day that Christmas presents are exchanged – left under the tree by Ježíšek (the Baby Jesus) – following...

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