• Slavia avoids stadium closure over derby violence
    07/30/2026

    The Czech Interior Ministry has closed administrative proceedings against football club Slavia Prague over crowd violence during May's Prague derby against Sparta, concluding that no further sanctions are necessary.

    The ministry found serious shortcomings in the club's security arrangements but said measures introduced by Slavia, together with penalties imposed by the League Football Association, were sufficient. Slavia had faced the possibility of playing home matches behind closed doors for up to a year.

    Following the incidents, in which supporters invaded the pitch, attacked Sparta players and threw flares into the away section, Slavia was fined CZK 10 million and ordered to play four matches without spectators. The club has since tightened security, including a ban on face coverings and pyrotechnics, and has issued lifetime stadium bans to the fans involved.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Public transport usage grows in Prague
    07/30/2026

    Around 1.13 billion people used Prague’s public transport system in 2025, an increase of approximately 26.2 million compared with the previous year, according to figures released this week. The metro and trams were the most widely used modes of transport in the Czech capital.

    Prague’s public transport vehicles, including rail services, covered a total of 212.1 million kilometres last year, 1.5 million more than in 2024.

    The total cost of running the service was CZK 27.7 billion, a year-on-year increase of CZK 900 million.

  • Uherské Hradiště Film School comes to close
    07/30/2026

    The 52nd edition of the Uherské Hradiště Film School officially closed on Wednesday evening with a screening of Only Beautiful Things to Look At (Prameň) by the Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovský. The filmmaker and the picture’s stars Anna Geislerová and Simona Boledovičová were in attendance.

    This year’s edition of the cinema event began on July 2400, featured over 200 films and had 4,600 accredited mainly young visitors.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Irish musician with Czech connections Glen Hansard dies at 56
    07/29/2026

    Irish musician Glen Hansard, who won an Oscar with Czech singer Markéta Irglová for the song Falling Slowly, has died at the age of 56 after a motorbike accident in Dublin.

    Hansard first played in Czechia with his band The Frames in 1996 and returned numerous times over the years to play in Prague and many places around the country, including as part of the act The Swell Season with Irglová.

  • Czechia records EU funding net gain of CZK 38.2 billion in first half of 2026
    07/29/2026

    In the first half of this year, the Czech Republic received CZK 38.2 billion more from European Union resources than it paid into the EU budget, the country’s Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday.

    Contributing to Czechia’s net gain were revenues from EU structural funds, money from the common agricultural policy and revenues from the European Recovery Plan NextGeneration EU (NGEU).

    In the same period last year the Czech Republic recorded a net gain of CZK 24 billion. The county has constantly been a net beneficiary since joining the bloc in 2004.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • CzechTrade and CzechInvest to merge into single agency
    07/29/2026

    The state agencies CzechTrade and CzechInvest are due to merge into a single entity named CzechBusiness from the start of next month. The minister of industry and trade, Karel Havlíček, said the new body would offer entrepreneurs the same services in one place and that the move would deliver cost savings. Mr. Havlíček said other European countries, such as Finland and Sweden, had consolidated their support for businesses in a similar manner.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Temperatures of up to 40C possible in Czechia in coming days
    07/29/2026

    Another wave of extremely hot weather is due to hit Czechia in the coming days. Temperatures are expected to exceed 35 degrees Celsius on Thursday and could reach up to 40 Celsius on Friday, the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute said. Following a cooler weekend, temperatures should again hit 35 Celsius at the start of next week. The nights will also be “tropical”, with temperatures not falling below 20 Celsius.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • State castles and chateaus to open for free on two days
    07/29/2026

    The Czech Ministry of Culture will open all state castles and chateaus to the public free of charge on August 30 and September 27 this year, it said on Wednesday. This follows limited free admission to state-owned museums and galleries earlier in 2026 and continues a project of making state cultural institutions more accessible, the Ministry said.

    The arts minister, Oto Klempíř, said the success of the spring trial of the project demonstrated a large degree of public interest.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Media: Spain’s Denia in frame for Czech football coach job
    07/29/2026

    Spanish coach Santi Denia is in the frame to become manager of the Czech international soccer team, the Spanish sports daily AS reported. Denia, who is 52, has led several Spain youth teams and trained the squad that won gold at the last Olympics.

    The previous Czech manager, Miroslav Koubek, resigned after the team performed poorly at the World Cup in North America, picking up only one point in the group stage.

    No foreigner has ever been hired as Czech national team coach.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Weather forecast
    07/29/2026

    It should be mainly sunny in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 35 degrees Celsius. Overcast weather is expected on the following days.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

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