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The Supreme Court has overturned a ruling against an official who granted Czechoslovak citizenship to Josefina Czerninová, a countess who left Czechoslovakia in 1945, opening the way for her descendants to successfully claim restitution of her former land and property. The Supreme Court ruled that the conclusion that the official had behaved negligently was in extreme contradiction with the factual findings of the case, and also objected to the criminal prosecution of officials simply for arriving at a legal opinion contrary to the one the prosecutors would have liked.

Czerninová, who came from the Schwarzenberg family, left Czechoslovakia in 1945, and was subsequently deprived of her property by the Beneš Decrees. In 1999, the authorities posthumously issued Czerninová a Czechoslovak citizenship certificate, ruling that she had been a citizen of Czechoslovakia at the time of her death in 1965. As a result, her descendants were able to reclaim millions of square metres of forest and other real estate in southern and western Bohemia, including a castle in the Karlovy Vary region.

In 2013, Ivana Odarčenková, one of the officials who made the decision to issue Czerninová a citizenship certificate, was handed a one-day prison sentence, suspended for one year, for negligence and mishandling of the task of a public official. In her appeal, Ms. Odarčenková stated that the goal of the criminal proceedings had clearly been to annul the decision taken on Czerninová's citizenship in order to re-assert the state's property interests.

All-female band Vesna have made it as one of the 26 artists who will be competing in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday in Liverpool. The girl group, representing Czechia in the contest, are among the top 10 performers from Tuesday night's semi-final, along with other successful countries such as Sweden, Norway, and Israel.

Vesna will be performing their song My Sister's Crown at Saturday's final for a chance to win the competition overall, along with the other nine winners from Tuesday night's semi-finals, the 10 winners from the second round of semi-finals which will be taking place on Thursday, the five countries that automatically get a place in the final (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain), and the winner of last year's contest, Ukraine.

A new study suggests that eight percent of children in Czechia aged between 11 and 15 are addicted to social networks, with that proportion having increased from five percent in 2018. Girls are more likely to be addicted than boys.

The results of the international study were presented at a press conference in Prague on Tuesday by research team leader Michal Kalman and data analyst Petr Baďura from Palacky University in Olomouc.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala travelled to Regensburg, Germany, on Tuesday to attend the ceremonial opening of a Bavarian-Czech Baroque exhibition in the Regensburg House of Bavarian History. Mr Fiala also became the first Czech Prime Minister to attend a cabinet meeting of the Bavarian government, which he attended in the morning together with the Czech Culture Minister, Martin Baxa, at the invitation of Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder. He had a short bilateral meeting with Söder beforehand.

Bavarian PM Söder said that the Czech Republic and Bavaria share a close friendship, despite their complex history, and that the Bavarian and Czech people are united by a similar cuisine, mentality, and culture.