A new ammunition plant will be built in Ukraine in cooperation with the Czech company Sellier & Bello, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced at a press conference in Prague yesterday after the second intergovernmental…
A total of 42% of Czech citizens believe that it is easy to obtain a firearms licence in the Czech Republic, up 16 percentage points since 2017, according to a STEM/MARK poll. According to the agency, the change in public opinion is most…
A joint meeting of the Czech and Ukrainian governments will take place in Prague today to discuss cooperation in the defence and energy sectors, migration, support for Czech exports, and the involvement of Czech companies in the…
Brno-born Barbora Krejcikova won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis tournament yesterday, beating Italian Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in the final. “This is the best day of my life,” said Krejcikova in an on-court interview after the…
President Petr Pavel held talks on Wednesday with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the implementation of the peace plan, the current situation on the battlefield, and the Czech munitions initiative, the Presidential Office…
Over 60% of Czechs think it is not necessary for the parents of children to be married if the family lives together, while 85% agree that divorce is an acceptable solution in the case of a dysfunctional family, according to a survey by the…
The Czech Republic plans to significantly speed up railway transport from Prague to Plzen to the border with Germany by 2030, Prime Minister Petr Fiala told journalists during a visit to Bavaria on Monday. The modernisation of this rail…
The Patriots for Europe grouping in the European Parliament, newly founded by Andrej Babis’s ANO last week along with Hungary’s Fidesz and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), has already become the third largest grouping in the parliament,…
Czech President Petr Pavel is leaving today for a week-long visit to the United States. The key item on his agenda is the NATO summit in Washington, which takes place from Tuesday to Thursday, after which he will spend two days in Houston,…
The Civic Democrats (ODS), the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and TOP 09 will run together in four regions in the September regional elections, as they have formed a joint list of candidates in the Central Bohemia, Liberec, South Moravia…
As of yesterday, the Czech Republic no longer recognises non-biometric passports issued by the Russian Federation, and Russian citizens with such passports are now remaining in the country illegally, the Foreign Ministry told CTK today.…
The number of Czechs who say the government is not taking sufficient care of the social situation of families with children has risen significantly over the past four years, according to a CVVM poll released to CTK today. 52% agreed with…
Ukraine and the Czech Republic have made significant progress in drafting a bilateral security agreement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office announced on their Telegram channel yesterday. The Czech delegation in Kyiv was led…
On Monday, the Czech Republic handed over to Poland the one-year presidency of the Visegrad Group (V4), a Central European cooperation forum also including Hungary and Slovakia. The priorities of the Polish presidency of the V4 include…
A new decree of the Czech Ministry of Health has lifted the ban on homosexual men donating blood. As of 1 July, all those who have engaged in risky sexual practices are excluded from blood donation, regardless of gender or sexual…
Former Czech PM Andrej Babis’s ANO is establishing a new political alliance with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban’s Fidesz and Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO). The three parties are calling on other European parties to join them, with the…
The population of the Czech Republic fell by 41,000 in the first quarter of this year to 10.86 million, as more people died than were born, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) said today. Foreign migration was also net negative, with around…
The Czech opposition party ANO will establish a new group in the European Parliament (EP), party leader and former PM Andrej Babis announced during an interview with CNN Prima News and on his social media profiles today. Babis said the…
About 1.3 million people in the Czech Republic had problems paying for energy last year, about 400,000 more than before the surge in energy prices caused mainly by the war in Ukraine, according to a study presented today by representatives…
The number of criminal proceedings initiated against individuals in the Czech Republic fell to 197,000 last year, a drop of roughly 700 year-on-year, according to the annual report from the Prosecutor General’s Office (NSZ) released…
Slovak President Peter Pellegrini began his visit to the Czech Republic this morning by paying tribute to the victims of the mass shooting at the Charles University Faculty of Arts on Jan Palach Square in Prague centre. Last 21 December,…
Based on a proposed amendment to the so-called “Lex Ukraine”, even vulnerable refugees will have to arrange their own housing in the Czech Republic as of September, which may leave hundreds of Ukrainian refugees in Prague on the streets,…
The first shipment of artillery ammunition purchased in non-EU countries thanks to the Czech initiative arrived in Ukraine some time ago, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced on social media today. Fiala (ODS) made the announcement…
Czech PM Petr Fiala and Argentine President Javier Milei held discussions in Prague yesterday, following which they declared support for Ukraine and economic cooperation between the Czech Republic and Argentina. The leaders told the media…
Czech Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurecka (KDU-CSL) will propose to raise public sector employee salaries by 7-10% from September at tomorrow’s meeting of the Tripartite Council, he told Czech TV’s ‘Questions from Vaclav…
In a debate last night with citizens in the Karlovy Vary region, President Petr Pavel suggested that the redistribution of taxes in the Czech Republic should be more closely connected with the quality of life in individual regions, as…
According to a new opinion poll by STEM, published yesterday by CNN Prima News TV, the opposition ANO would win a general election in the Czech Republic with 32.9%, and the Communist Party would re-enter the lower house of parliament,…
The Chamber of Deputies today approved a government proposal enabling postal voting for Czech citizens living abroad, with the votes of MPs from the ruling coalition. If approved by the Senate and signed into law by the president, Czechs…
The Czech opposition ANO will leave the liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament (EP) as well as the ALDE European liberal party, as it would not be able to fulfil its programme from within this group, ANO leader Andrej Babis…
About two-thirds of Czechs would support a fast end to the war in Ukraine, even at the cost of territorial losses to Russia, according to a survey conducted by the STEM agency in March and presented yesterday to MPs from the lower house…