Kvitová and Satoranský to carry Czech flag at Olympics opening

Cyclist Schelgel brings number of Czech Olympic Covid cases to four

Forcibly sterilised Czech women to receive financial compensation

The European Commission published its second annual report on the rule of law among EU member states this week, with particular criticism levelled at Hungary and Poland. Government officials from both states lashed out against the report, which they...

Janoušek re-enters jail after court health ruling

Fire fighters finish work in tornado-hit villages in Moravia

Nausch Sluková latest Czech to test positive in Tokyo

An essay about deforestation won Prague student Štěpánka Klečanská the chance to take part in an event aimed at raising awareness about climate change and the role of women in tackling it, co-organized by the Canadian Embassy in Prague and the ...

Dutch architecture firm to design new station for Brno

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Olympic Committee investigate “Covid” flight described as scandal by PM

The Děčín Regional Museum has launched a major exhibition entitled ‘A Journey to Prehistory or In the Footsteps of Zdeněk Burian’, in honour of the famous Czech illustrator who brought the Stone Age to life for generations of children worldw...

Covid infections continue slight drop, reproduction rate still below 1

Court orders billionaire Czech lobbyist Roman Janoušek must return to prison

A new website called Zapomenuté miliardy (Forgotten billions) offers Czechs the chance to find out if they own any unclaimed shares distributed during the privatisation era of 1990s. Thousands of people have since found their unclaimed money.

Tokyo Olympics: Czech table tennis player Pavel Širuček tests Covid-positive

Prague may reopen trial of Czechoslovak Army general convicted in 1947

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Forgotten Billions service recovers 320mn in ‘coupon privatisation’ money

For nearly six months now, people in the Czech Republic have been able to hand over illegally held weapons to the police free of prosecution. The opportunity has resulted in police officers receiving thousands of firearms and pieces of ammunition, i...

Deputy PM: current anti-Covid measures adequate, despite Delta spread

Mathilda Nostitz, Czech countess and philanthropist, dies aged 85

Over 100 Czech sportsmen and women are in Tokyo to represent their nation at the 32nd Olympic Games, which begin on Friday. The biggest show in sport was delayed by a year by Covid – but Czech participants say their focus is on making the most of ...

Senate confirms right to armed defence will be constitutionally enshrined

Justice Minister proposed salary cut for ex-Chief Prosecutor as disciplinary action

Ekofilm docu fest in Brno attracts over 200 competition film submissions

Brodské-Lanžhot crossing between Slovakia and Czechia likely to be blocked by protestors

New walk-in vaccine centres open up in Czech Republic

EC's Rule of Law report identifies shortcomings in implementing Czech anti-corruption strategy

President signs major new amendment on distraint law

The Chief Hygiene Office announced this week that the more contagious Delta variant now accounts for around 80 percent of coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic. Although the daily increase in Covid numbers is still low, experts predict it wil...

Senate committee declares President Zeman fit for office

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Three Czech projects mentioned in A+Awards for international architecture

Founder of child neurosurgery in Czechoslovakia, Vladimír Beneš, dies

Czech Olympic volleyball team ravaged by coronavirus

The Summer Festivities of Early Music traditionally offer a unique musical experience in a beautiful environment. The festival, which is extremely popular with music lovers, runs from July 20 to August 5. Its director Josefína Knoblochová explains...

Explosion in training facility injures two Czech soldiers

Central European foreign ministers meeting in Czechia to discuss Covid, EU expansion

Tornado: Pope Francis to address Slovakia alongside cross made from damaged Moravian church

Czech health insurance will not cover Covid-19 tests as of September

Covid-19: Delta variant constitutes 70-80 pct of infections in Czechia

The European Commission has approved the Czech Republic’s National Recovery Plan and will allocate CZK 180 billion to the country from the EU’s Resilience and Recovery Fund, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Czech Prime Minister Andr...

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EU Commission endorses Czech Republic’s €7bn recovery and resilience plan

SAO: Czech water quality hasn’t improved despite CZK 2.7bn in EU subsidies

The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Rospotrebnadzor has blocked the Russian language website of Radio Prague International on the territory of Russia. The decision was made in connection with an article posted in 2001 abou...

iRozhlas.cz: Agrofert dairy subsidiary filed suit at EU court over subsidies suspension

On July 18, 1891 František Křižík opened the first tram stop in Prague on Letná plain near Stromovka park. It was from the same spot that the Prague Public Transit Company sent a column of 13 historic and modern trams last Sunday, exactly 130 y...

Prague’s historic Charles Bridge again defaced by graffiti

EU Commission head, Czech PM meet in Prague to discuss EU economic stimulus package

Are you new to the Czech Republic? Here are some basic facts about family life that might be helpful.

Early 1990s Prague, when everything seemed possible, has attained almost mythical status. Travel writer and journalist Mark Baker had been regularly visiting Czechoslovakia even prior to the fall of communism – and delivers illuminating reflection...

Biochemist: Czech Republic close to achieving herd immunity

Investigace.cz: Governments used Israeli technology to spy on journalists

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Krejčíková wins Prague Open, picks up third title this season

Tram parade marks 130 years since first tram rode through Prague

Although once considered the best Czech soul singer, Michal Prokop chose to enter politics during the 1990s where he served for 10 years. Now, after years of silence he has restarted his signing career and has just released a new album - Mohlo by to...

Last two of seven escaped bison return to their enclosure in Tábor Zoo

Many Czechs requalifying post pandemic

Member of Czech logistics team to Olympics tests positive for Covid-19

Several regions dealing with local floods after hours of torrential rain

July 18, 1891 was one of the most important days not only in the history of Prague’s public transport, but also in the history of railway transport and Czech technical engineering in general.

Russia blocks Radio Prague International’s website on its territory

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Meteorologists issue severe storm warning

Krejčíková to play Martincová at all-Czech Prague Open final

Covid numbers slightly declining

Czech Republic in talks with potential battery cell factory investors

Russia blocks website of human rights organization for cooperating with Czech NGO

Daniel Herman awarded Charles IV Prize at Sudeten German Landsmannschaft conference

Roughly CZK 170 billion have been allocated by the state to support businesses since the coronavirus pandemic hit the Czech Republic in March 2020. The subsidies have now been cut, but the Czech hospitality sector is still struggling.

One of the major obstacles in the use of 3D printing in the construction sector are the sharp edges on most buildings, at least in this part of the world. Scientists from Liberec are now developing a construction robot that should be able to deal wi...

After being closed for nearly two decades, the historic carousel in Prague’s Letná park is now set to be restored and reopened, the Czech Technical Museum, which administers the building, has announced. Its director Karel Ksandr hopes that if all...

EC ready to approve Czech Republic’s National Recovery Plan

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Covid data indicate a new rise in coronavirus epidemic

Pirate Party suing PM

EC urging Prague to introduce reliable system to identify and prevent conflict of interest

EC Vice-President Frans Timmermans holds Green Deal talks with Czech officials

Nestled in a shallow valley between the green hills of the Slavkov and Upper Palpatine Forests, Mariánské Lázně is the second-largest Bohemian spa town. Like Františkovy Lázně and Karlovy Vary, the town combines a laid-back spa atmosphere wit...

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

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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.

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