Czech Culture Minister Oto Klempíř (Motorists) says he assured President Petr Pavel that the government’s planned overhaul of funding for Czech Television and Czech Radio would not threaten their ...

The Czech Constitutional Court has rejected a petition by 32 senators seeking to overturn the formula used to distribute shared tax revenues among the country’s 14 regions. The senators argued that ...

Scholars from 25 countries are in Prague for the 7th World Czech Studies Congress. I spoke with organiser Dalibor Dobiáš ...

General Miroslav Hlaváč has taken command of the Czech Army, pledging to strengthen NATO readiness, air defence and military ...

Dog owners in Czechia have to register their dog in a central records system under new rules that came into effect on Wednesday. It is not necessary to take this step immediately; it is sufficient to ...

Six people needed medical attention on Tuesday when lightning hit a tree near a summer camp for children in the vicinity of Jindřichův Hradec, South Moravia. An adult was momentarily knocked ...

Prague Zoo has welcomed a new Cape fur seal pup, the great-grandson of Gaston, the seal swept away in the 2002 floods. I ...

Coalition party Freedom and Direct Democracy want Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to be stripped of the highest Czech state honour, the Order of the White Lion. Jindřich Rajchl, a member of the ...

The specialists say they are opposed to the transfer of agendas from the central Office of the Government to three different ministries. They say this move will undermine the protection of vulnerable ...

Two women are set to serve 12 and nine years in prison, respectively, for the murder of the leader of a group known as the Kutná Hora sect. The Prague High Court on Tuesday reduced the women’s ...

The new head of the Czech Army, Miroslav Hlaváč, symbolically took over the post from his predecessor, Karel Řehka, in a ceremony at Prague’s Vítkov National Memorial on Tuesday, with General Řehka ...

The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Petr Macinka, has apologised for what he called “unintended promotion” of a festival at which he was booed by audience members on Saturday. The previous day his ...