Domestic Affairs
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Humanitarian aid for flood victims
Flood waters in the Czech Republic are slowly but surely receding and though some areas are still underwater, the focus has now switched from crisis management, to…
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Usti "through worst" but city and region still suffering ravages of the Elbe River
It appears after a week of floods in the Czech Republic the worst is probably over and water levels on swollen rivers have stabilised and even, in some places, gone down.
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Straka withdraws from election race after row over citizenship
The Czech Republic lost one of the more colourful candidates for the forthcoming parliamentary elections this week, after the Christian Democrats announced that former…
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Czech Senate proposes law banning Communist Party symbols
In October last year, an explicit ban on the propagation of Nazism and Communism was proposed by the upper house of Czech parliament, intended to force the Communist Party…
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The Greens - The new force on the Czech political scene?
One year ago, the Green Party was a small and relatively obscure political party that had some success at the municipal level, but its national poll numbers were well…
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Czech Republic may have first case of deadly bird flu
The Czech Republic has detected its first case of bird flu in a swan. Veterinary tests showed the presence of the H5 virus although it will not be clear until Wednesday…
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Jaroslava Moserova - politician, doctor, writer and translator - dies aged 76
The veteran politician, doctor and literary translator Jaroslava Moserova passed away in the early hours of Friday morning after a long illness. She was 76. Jaroslava…
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Court rules that Kokorin Castle be returned to former owners
It took all of sixteen years but the former owners of Kokorin Castle -the Spacek family - are an important step closer to regaining their family's inheritance. On…
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First new criminal code since 1950s thrown out after meeting resistance across political spectrum
There has been a lot in the news in the last couple of years about proposed changes to the Czech criminal code. There were plans to lower the age of consent and criminal…
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Foreigners to get permanent residence after five years
The Senate on Thursday approved a bill under which foreigners living and working in the Czech Republic could be granted permanent residence after five years, as opposed to…
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Same-sex registered partnerships to be introduced after deputies override presidential veto
The Czech Republic has become the only country in Central Europe where gays and lesbians will be allowed to enter into registered partnerships. The lower house of…
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Czech Army sends fresh contingent to Iraq as violence escalates in country
A ceremony took place at the National Memorial on Prague's Vitkov Hill on Tuesday as the latest Czech Army contingent - the tenth to date - prepared to leave for Iraq. The…
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