Eastern Europe

The Prague Transport authority has announced that due to scheduled maintenance work over the Easter break sections of the Prague Metro' s A and C lines will be out of operation between Friday morning and Tuesday morning. A replacement bus service will...

Traffic police will be out in force to monitor adherence to traffic regulations over the Easter holidays, the head of the force Ji Zl, told the news site Novinky.cz. Many people leave the big cities and head for their country cottages for Easter and Easte...

Public trust in the government, Senate and local governments has seen a slight drop in February and March, according to the outcome of a survey conducted by the CVVM agency.The government received a 33 percent trust rating, down by one percent compared to...

Czech farmers have protested against imports of cheap grains from Ukraine which will make it difficult for them to sell their own produce. They also point to the fact that the duty-free wheat, corn and soya from Ukraine, which is being imported to a numbe...

The Czech government has removed Covid-19 from a list of contagious diseases whose culpable spread is punishable, following a proposal by the Ministry of Health. The change is necessary to end the current mandatory seven-day isolation after a positive tes...

The Czech government has approved a new drugs strategy to run until the end of 2025 that includes the introduction of a strictly regulated market in cannabis. The exact rules of the action plan are set to be set by an expert group, Prime Minister Petr Fia...

The president of the Football Association of the Czech Republic, Petr Fousek, has been elected to the executive committee of European soccer's governing body, UEFA. He was voted into the four-year position at a UEFA congress in Lisbon on Wednesday.Bet...

A new Department of Science Diplomacy has been established at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague. It is headed by Kateina Joselov and is intended to bolster scientific and technological cooperation between Czechia and other states.Czechia cur...

The Academic Senate of the Faculty of National Economy at Prague's University of Economics and Business backed controversial dean Miroslav evk on Wednesday. The rector of the entire university, Petr Dvok, and some students had called for his removal.M...

The Eggenbergs came to Bohemia from Styria during the Thirty Year's War and ranked among the most significant noble families in Austria and the Czech lands. The family received esk Krumlov castle in 1622 from Emperor Ferdinand II. in return for their ...

Just over 325,000 Ukrainian refugees with temporary protection status were present in Czechia at the start of this month, the Czech Ministry of the Interior's Department of Asylum and Migration Policy said on Wednesday. The number includes Ukrainians ...

It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 7 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days....

Czechia is planning to provide between CZK 600 million and CZK 700 million in military aid to Ukraine, the country's defence minister, Jana ernochov, said after a meeting with President Petr Pavel on Wednesday.The minister provided the head of state w...

The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavsk, says that the example of Finland shows that if a state is ready to join NATO the accession process can be very fast. He said the Finnish story served as a message and motivation for other aspirants.Mr. L...

Temperatures are expected to range around 7 degrees Celsius on Sunday, with overcast skies and rainfall likely in the southern and eastern parts of the country....

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitov expressed criticism of the All England Club's decision to allow Russian and Belarussian tennis players to partake in this year's British Grand Slam. The statement was made at a press conference after Kvitov...

The long-awaited Milan Kundera Library opened within the spaces of the Moravian Library in Brno on April 1, the day of the famous writer's 94th birthday. The library features more than 3,000 publications by the author, as well as related works by lite...

The Prague Half Marathon took place in the Czech capital this Saturday, with both the male and female categories being won by Kenyans. Roncer Kipkorir Konga finished the race in first place within the men's category with a time of 59:43. Patrik Vebr w...

Hundreds of castles, palaces and other national monuments administered by the National Heritage Institute are opening up to the public this Saturday, April 1, as the tourist season officially starts in Czechia. On the occasion, the institute has also orga...

The Academic Senate at his faculty at Prague's University of Economics and Business this week decided to stand by controversial dean Miroslav evk, Seznam Zprvy reported on Thursday.The rector of the entire institution, Petr Dvok, recently called on Mr...

The Czech Ministry of Defence has distanced itself from athlete and Czech Olympic Committee member David Svoboda after he expressed support for Russians and Belarusians being allowed to take part in the Olympics. Svoboda, who won gold in the modern pentat...

Monday will be mostly overcast with rain or snow showers and day temperatures ranging between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius....

Air traffic at Prague's Vclav Havel airport will be disrupted until Tuesday due to a two-day warning strike that began on Sunday at Munich airport, Germany's second largest.According to the DPA agency, a total of 1,500 flights and 200,000 passenge...

Sunday will be partly overcast with rain showers and day temperatures ranging between 11 and 15 degrees Celsius....

Thousands of volunteers around Czechia are taking part in a spring edition of the rubbish clearance this weekend, organised by Czech Union for Nature Conservation. More than 273 such operations are taking place all around the country.The rubbish clearance...

General Emil Boek, the last living Czech airman who served in Britain's RAF during WWII, died on Saturday at the age of 100.The veteran pilot served with the RAF's 312 and 310 squadrons and participated in over two dozen operational flights. After...

An official delegation from the Czech Republic, headed by speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Markta Pekarov Adamov, arrived in Taiwan on Saturday on a five-day visit aimed at boosting mutual ties between the two states.The 160-strong delegation included ...

A spell of warm weather has broken records around Czechia. Record temperatures for March 23 were seen at 24 out of 161 stations keeping records for 30 years or more.The highest temperature, 22.5 degrees Celsius, was registered in Brod nad Dyj in South Mor...

Heat consumption from central heating plants in Czechia fell by 12 percent year-on-year in 2022, according to the data released by the Energy Regulatory Office on Friday. A total of 74 PJs of heat was consumed, which is the lowest figure in six years.Cons...

Freediver David Vencl first made the news two years ago. At that time he entered the Guinness Book of Records for swimming 80 metres across a frozen lake in Czechia in one breath beneath a thick layer of ice.Vencl says he has always been drawn to the dept...

Friday will be mostly overcast with occasional rain and day temperatures ranging between 15 and 19 degrees Celsius....

The Euro 7 emission standards proposed by the European Commission to reduce air pollution from new motor vehicles sold in the EU needs to be significantly changed so that it doesn't limit the production of small personal vehicles, Prime Minister Petr ...

June's IFSC Climbing World Cup, that is set to take place on Prague's Letn plain, will feature Czechia's best climbers, including four-time world champion Adam Ondra, the head of the Czech Mountaineering Association, Jan Bloudek, said at a pre...

Czech Radio has decided to suspend its activities on the TikTok social media app in reaction to the warning issued by Czechia's National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NKIB), the station announced on Wednesday via its Twitter account.NKIB issu...

Pspvek sdlen Kunsthalle Praha (@kunsthallepraha)It's a fantastic exhibition, with works from so many countries and periods. What qualities to these works share?"They share a relationship to the fundamental idea of what it is to live a bohemian lif...

Labour Minister Marian Jureka said on Wednesday that he does not intend push through a rise in the pension age from 65 to 68 into new relevant legislation that is being prepared. He added that the age when people become eligible for the state pension shou...

Housed in the Grand Palais Immersif, a new venue in Paris dedicated to immersive exhibitions, the 'Eternal Mucha' exhibition is a feast for the senses, playing with more than just the visual, as Mucha's great-grandson, Marcus Mucha, elaborates...

Czechia is being visited this Wednesday by the European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton, who is currently visiting EU member states that have the potential to increase their munitions productions capacity, news site Denk N reports. Bre...

Czechia will not be able to rely on its underground water reserves as a source for its drinking in future. This due to changes in climate which are raising the global temperature and leading to less rainfall, Agriculture Minister Zdenk Nekula told jounral...

Friday should see temperatures range around 17 degrees Celsius with overcast skies and rainfall in the northwest of Czechia....

The pchar granary, which lies within the wider farm in Mytice South Bohemia, and Kumpnova garden within the Benar park in Slan, Central Bohemia, were named Monuments of the Year on Tuesday by the Association of Historical Settlements in Bohemia, Moravia a...

The main prize at the 2022 Czech Grand Design Awards went to the creative duo Terezie Lexov and tpn Smetana, who won the title of Grand Designer of the Year for the third time in succession. They impressed the Czech Design Academy with their collection of...

The One World International Human Rights Film Festival kicks off in Prague on Wednesday evening. The 25th edition of the biggest human rights film festival in the world will offer 75 feature-length documentaries and ten virtual reality films. There will a...

The Emmaus Monastery in Prague is known for its unmistakable white towers with gilded spires from the 1960s, which replaced the original ones, destroyed in February 1945 in an accidental air raid by the Allies.The former Benedictine monastery is also know...

The Czech national football squad is gathering in Prague on Monday ahead of their first two games in the qualifying process for next year's European Championship in Germany.Their opening game will be at home to Poland on Friday, before they take on Mo...

As the current heating season comes to an end Czech reserves of gas are more than half full, Czech Television reported on Sunday. Consumers in Czechia used one-fifth less gas year-on-year in 2022, the lowest amount in eight years.Usage levels were impacte...

The Jihlava-born Czech singer has also expressed his excitement at being able to perform with a highly accomplished ensemble of American musicians. His accompanying band will be made up of members of the Tony Bennett quarter, as well as double bassist Mar...

It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days....

A Czech volunteer has been injured in Ukraine's Donbas, Czech Television reported on Sunday, citing the Fenix organisation. A spokesperson said the Czech, who was treating Ukrainian soldiers injured in battle and helped saved dozens of people, had bee...

Kateina Siniakov and Barbora Krejkov have won the women's doubles title at tennis's WTA Tour 1000 tournament in Indian Wells. The Czech pairing, who were seeded first in the competition, beat the German-Brazilian duo of Beatriz Laura Siegemund and...