Finance Ministry selects Jiří Pos to become chairman of the board at Prague Airport

Justice minister files disciplinary action against former prosecutor general

Priorities of Czech EU presidency discussed at roundtable

Czech PM to meet with Frans Timmermans to discuss European Commission's electro mobility plan

The Olomouc-based Bikesharing company Nextbike has expanded to over twenty cities in the Czech Republic. The company currently operates nearly 5,200 shared bicycles and electric bikes, which is an increase by 170 percent on the previous year.

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Czech Radio: Issuing certificates to people inoculated in third countries plagued by complications

Czechs most concerned about coronavirus, according to survey

Despite the sound of gunfire, explosions and ground army vehicles, the military ground of Libavá has become something of a sanctuary for rare species of birds. Since 2016, when the area partly reopened to the public, ornithologists have been closel...

NortonLifeLock in talks to buy Avast, WSJ reports

Prague will host a two day multi-genre festival of music, theatre performances and slam poetry starting Friday titled "Art belongs to the streets". It will be the first such event after the long months of coronavirus lockdown.  I asked the festival...

Prague metro to operate until midnight from Thursday

New building act places heritage sites in danger, warns Czech head of ICOMOS

Culture Ministry interested in buying writer Bohumil Hrabal’s home in Kersko

Digitally restored version of Vojtěch Jasný’s The Cassandra Cat screened at Cannes

Euro 2020: Patrick Schick’s stunning effort named Goal of the Tournament

West Ham’s Souček wins Golden Ball for Czech player of year for second time

The former holiday home of famous Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal in Kersko, east of Prague, is now on sale for the price of CZK 11.9 million.

Foreigners with long-term residency will have to insure themselves exclusively with the state health insurance company VZP for a period of five years, according to a bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, which will now be sent to the pr...

Patrick Van Damme, Belgian professor in tropical agronomy, has recently been appointed to head the Faculty of Tropical Agri-Sciences , becoming the first foreign dean in the history of the University of Life Sciences. I met with Mr van Damme to disc...

Bookmakers: Czechs will bring seven or eight medals from Tokyo

Temperature swings, heavy storms and flash floods have become a regular feature of the Czech summer. In late June, the country moreover experienced an unseen event in human memory-a tornado that ripped through seven villages leaving a trail of devas...

Deputies approve legislation requiring foreigners to be insured with state insurer VZP

Restored tomb of Czech painter Josef Šíma unveiled in Paris

Last snowfield in Giant Mountains has melted

Covid-19: number of new cases exceed 300

Lower house approves bill increasing child benefits

Parliament approves new building act

The Czech Health Ministry is planning to end the availability of taking free preventative coronavirus tests from September 1, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch announced. From September, only indicative tests requested by a patient’s GP or hygiene sta...

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The number of people in Moravian Silesian region who are at risk of losing their housing or living in unsatisfactory conditions has been growing, Czech Radio reported. At the moment, over 4,000 households in Ostrava,north Moravia are threatened by h...

Freshwater fish are in danger of becoming addicted to methamphetamine, Czech scientists have warned in a study published in the prestigious Journal of Experimental Biology. Their research has shown that after spending time in meth contaminated water...

The 2021 Prague European Summit addressing common responses to EU challenges

Czech NGOs collect over 1 billion crowns in aid of tornado-hit villages

Rothschild family heirs take their property claim to the European Court of Human Rights

Supreme State Attorney Igor Stříž: I will not bow to pressure

In an ordinary life, visits to official ministry offices should occur only three times - when you’re born, when you get married, and when you die. In the past decade of living abroad, I’ve lost count of the number of battles I’ve had at the fr...

Monday's coronavirus cases lower than last week

Candidates for Czech European Court of Human Rights judge approved by government

Health minister: Coronavirus tests could stop being free from September 1

Igor Stříž named chief public prosecutor

Health Minister: Mobile teams will be sent out to vaccinate in excluded neighbourhoods

Czech defence minister to share Afghan support plan with government

Graffiti on Charles Bridge removed

Patrick Schick named second best goal scorer at EURO 2021 after Cristiano Ronaldo

Two centres offering Covid-19 vaccination without prior registration opened in Prague on Monday. Their aim is to attract more people to get the jab amidst a growing number of new cases. The vaccine is available to everyone over the age of 16, includ...

 Czechia is a parliamentary republic. The bicameral Parliament, made up of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, constitutes the legislative branch of government. Executive power is shared by the prime minister’s cabinet and the president, whos...

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Czechs spent CZK 3.5 billion on cryptocurrencies in first half of 2021

Czech chemical producer Draslovka Holding to buy CZK 2.23 billion cyanide factory in South Africa

The ruins of Königsmühle or King’s Mill, a dilapidated settlement near the Czech-German border bears testimony of the tumultuous years of the 20th century. Life in the settlement which had only six houses, ended with the expulsion of Sudeten Ger...

Covid reproduction number at its highest since October

One of the Czech Republic’s most iconic landmarks, Charles Bridge in Prague, has been spray-painted with graffiti. The inscription, written in blue paint, stretching almost halfway up the stone railing. Conservationist Jakub Tluchoř is now workin...

Plíšková moves into WTA tennis top 10 after reaching Wimbledon finals

Interval between first and second coronavirus vaccine doses shortened to 21 days

Spain tightens restrictions for travellers from Czech Republic

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Seven bison escape from Tábor zoo during storm

Activity of ticks at highest level

Reproduction number at its highest since January

June 2021 third warmest on record

Youth who spray painted Charles Bridge turns himself over to police

Two walk-in vaccination centres to open in Prague

The first section of the D1 motorway was opened to traffic on 12 July 1971 with a spectacular ribbon cutting ceremony, attended by Communist leaders. The section was only 21 kilometres long, running from Prague to the Central Bohemian town of Miroš...

Czech theatre has a strong tradition of musicals. Even the Czech national anthem originally comes from a musical theatre production. However, the real golden age of Czech musicals began after 1989.

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Karolína Plíšková hopes of winning first Grand Slam dashed by Ashleigh Barty

Lobbyist Roman Janoušek ordered back to jail

Police looking for young couple following damage to Charles Bridge

Czech javelin champion Barbora Špotáková claims her 21st Diamond League victory

Four more Prague metro stations get mobile coverage

Unemployment drops to 3.7 in June

Visegrad group leaders call for inclusion of Western Balkans into Schengen

Chief Hygienist: Delta mutation particularly common among people returning from high-risk states

Bill that envisions cutting benefits for people avoiding fine payments passes through lower-house

More than 50,000 children registered for coronavirus vaccine in Czechia

Recent polls have suggested a new political grouping may make the five-percent threshold to reach the Chamber of Deputies in elections this autumn. The Oath (Přísaha in Czech) have been using similar anti-corruption rhetoric to previous new partie...

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The annual Baroque Festival gets underway on Friday in the Moravian city of Olomouc. Over the course of the next two months, visitors will have a chance to see a wide range of performances from symphonic to chamber and sacred music. One of the highl...

Františkovy Lázně is the smallest and westernmost town of the Bohemian Spa Triangle, which it forms along with Karlovy Vary and Marianské Lázně. But although its population numbers only a little over five thousand residents, the town can certa...

Charles Bridge sprayed with graffiti

Army and veterans commemorate anniversary of Battle of Britain

Slovakia reopens all border crossings with Czechia

Labour Office: Unemployment fell to 3.7 percent in June

Powerful storms leave tens of thousands of households without electricity

Apartment and house prices in the Czech Republic increased by an average of 11.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021, after rising by 8.9 percent in the previous three-month period.

Plíšková: First Grand Slam final in five years shows value of persevering

Unvaccinated must now present negative test at work after foreign trip

Plíšková wins at Wimbledon to reach second Grand Slam final of career

The Czech Republic should enable the handing out of EU COVID certificates to Czechs, EU citizens – and foreigners with permanent residency in Czechia who have been vaccinated in selected foreign countries – from July 12, the health minister has ...

While most of the coal mines in the Karviná region are closing down, miners on the other side of the Moravian-Silesian region may be soon returning underground. There are many abandoned slate mines around Opava and with growing demand for the preci...

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Makers of hit Owners complete new movie

Czech Center New York launches video talks on Czech National Gallery gems

Rutt and Palát help Tampa Bay Lightning retain Stanley Cup

Minister: Fully vaccinated Czechs don’t need tests after inbound travel

Czech government to discuss donating excess coronavirus vaccines

Coronavirus infections on Wednesday at double the rate of last week

Ruling ANO party slips back into lead in latest STEM poll

President Zeman to visit China next year

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With the easing of travel restrictions, the demand for short-term accommodation through house-renting applications, such as Airbnb or Booking.com is slowly increasing. However, the number of Airbnb apartments offered for short-term rentals currently...

Hamáček: Slovakia to reopen border crossings with Czechia

Václav Havel Airport in Prague recommends travelers arrive three hours before flight

End of May saw number of deaths return to pre-Covid rates

Czech tennis star Karolína Plíšková has been world number one and is a constant presence in the top 10. However, she has only been to one Grand Slam final in her career – and she is now hoping to at least equal that achievement after reaching ...

Czech economy will grow by 3.9 percent in 2021, according to European Commission

Hundreds gather in Prague to protest against coronavirus measures

The patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, Tomáš Butt, served mass on Tuesday at the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague on the occasion of the 606th anniversary of the burning at the stake of Jan Hus, the Czech Church reformer who preached at the s...

Rising prices and shortages of building materials are beginning to be reflected in apartment prices in the Czech Republic, the Czech News Agency reported, citing property developers.

Covid-19: Reproduction number lowest in week

Czech Republic joins condemnation of violence against Georgian LGBT activists

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Karolína Plíšková reaches her first Wimbledon semi-final, Muchová exits in fifth round

Tomas Butta re-inaugurated as patriarch of Czechoslovak Hussite Church

Meteorologists issue heatwave warning

Czech tourist dies in Austrian Alps

Covid-19: reproduction number drops to 1.2

Czechs mark Jan Hus anniversary

Four injured in chemical plant explosion in Lovosice