President Petr Pavel yesterday welcomed the Czech hockey players who won gold medals at the World Championships on Sunday to Prague Castle, and thanked them for the fighting spirit they showed at the tournament. Pavel received a gold medal…
A two-day informal meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) foreign ministers began today in Prague, in preparation for the July NATO summit in Washington. The war in Ukraine is the main topic of the event. On the sidelines of…
The conflict in the Gaza Strip must be brought to an end as soon as possible, Czech President Petr Pavel and Jordan’s King Abdullah II agreed at a meeting in the Jordanian capital of Amman today. The longer the Israeli military operation…
Half of young Czechs aged 15 to 24 use nicotine products, one-third of them daily, according to the 2023 NAUTA survey on tobacco and alcohol use in the Czech Republic, conducted by the National Health Institute (SZU), Health Minister…
The campaign for the upcoming European Parliament (EP) elections – which in the Czech Republic will take place in less than two weeks, on the weekend of Friday 7 and Saturday 8 June, to elect 21 of the 720 MEPs – is revealing a different…
The Czech ice hockey team won gold yesterday at the World Championships, hosted by the Czech cities of Prague and Ostrava, defeating Switzerland 2-0 in the final game in Prague. The Czechs won gold for the first time in 14 years. The…
Citizens of other EU countries who live in the Czech Republic can vote for Czech MEPs in the EU elections if they have registered on the electoral roll before 30 April. However, most of these foreigners, whose number is around 230,000…
President Petr Pavel was injured yesterday while riding his motorcycle, the Presidential Office (KPR) announced on Twitter (styled as ‘X’) in the evening. The injuries are not serious, but the president will remain at the Central Military…
The Spolu coalition (ODS, KDU-CSL, TOP 09) won a mock European Parliament election held among high school students with 15.2% of the vote, according to People in Need, who organised the election. Five years ago, the Pirates topped the poll…
One in ten young adults in the Czech Republic report symptoms of severe depression, and one in six to moderate symptoms, according to a survey presented by representatives of the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles…
Half of all general practitioners (GPs) for children and adolescents in the Czech Republic have now reached retirement age, the number of surgeries has dropped by 400 in the past five years, and a number of senior doctors are expected to…
The Czech National Heritage Institute (Národní památkový ústav; NPU) has discovered marble busts of the Duchess and Duke of Savoy, Margaret of Austria and Philibert II, lost for 455 years, in the collections of the Czech chateau Sychrov in…
The opposition ANO would clearly win the general election if it were held now, winning 32% of the vote, more than twice more than the second-placed Civic Democratic Party (ODS) on 15.5%, according to the latest Kantar agency poll released…
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has been hospitalised since being shot by an assassin on Wednesday, is out of danger of death, but his condition remains serious and his recovery will take a long time, an official of the Banska…
The Bohemian-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (CMKOS) has cancelled a demonstration planned for 21 May against the government’s plans to amend the Labor Code and pension system, in order to calm the situation following Wednesday’s…
Norway Grants have supported 165 projects and 11 bilateral initiatives aimed at promoting cooperation between the Czech Republic and Norway with almost CZK 900 million over the last five years, the Environment Ministry said in a press…
Czech President Petr Pavel today appointed MP Marek Zenisek (TOP 09) as minister for science, research and innovation, a post recently vacated by his party colleague Helena Langsadlova. Zenisek will leave his position as head of the…
The Czech government will help 430 Ukrainians with temporary protection in the Czech Republic return to their homeland, under a pilot assistance program scheduled to run for six months from June to November this year, and approved by the…
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) was shot by an attacker in Handlova, central Slovakia, yesterday afternoon. Slovak Environment Minister Tomas Taraba told the BBC late last night that Fico has undergone surgery and his life is…
63% of people from the LGBT+ community experienced some kind of harassment in the Czech Republic in 2023, including threats of violence or offensive comments. According to a survey released today by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights,…
The Czech Republic spent 1.37% of its GDP on defence last year, roughly CZK 101 billion, which was about CZK 10 billion less than expected, Defence Minister Jana Cernochova (ODS) told Czech Television last night. NATO estimated that the…
The Roma and Sinti Holocaust Memorial in Lety, built on the site of a former WWII concentration camp for Roma people, opened to the public for the first time yesterday, and will initially be open from Thursdays to Sundays, according to…
The Czech Republic supports the candidacy of outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the post of Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky (Pirates) said in an interview with the…
The most common reason for Czechs to take part in the June elections to the European Parliament (EP) is to express their opinion of the current Czech government, followed by the desire to influence the course and content of EU policy,…
A horse that lost its rider ran into the spectator area at the Pardubice racecourse yesterday, injuring four people, including a child, according to regional police spokeswoman Marketa Janovska. She added that the injuries are not life…
Surgery will no longer be a condition for official sex change, after the Czech Constitutional Court struck down a number of disputed sections of the current law, effective from mid-2025, the court announced today on its website. The…
The European Parliament elections are now one month away, with voting open in the Czech Republic on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 June. Brno Daily spoke to Vít Hloušek, a political scientist from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Brno’s Masaryk…
After decades of absence, moose have reappeared in the Czech part of the Krkonose Mountains. Krkonose National Park (KRNAP) spokesman Radek Drahny told CTK that the individual spotted was evidently the same one that was recently spotted on…
Argentine President Javier Milei will visit the Czech Republic in mid-June, to receive the annual award from the Liberal Institute and give a lecture in Prague on 18 June, according to a press release from the Liberal Institute and the…
The Czech government has recalled its ambassador to Russia, Vitezslav Pivonka, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky (Pirates) said yesterday on TV Nova’s discussion programme Five Minutes To Twelve. The Foreign Ministry told CTK that Pivonka…