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Prague Castle exhibition puts spotlight on Czech Impressionism

What claims to be the biggest ever exhibition of Czech Impressionism has just started at Prague Castle. It puts on show 520 works by 78 artists with the aim of revealing…
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Czech construction sector pins hopes on radical changes to building approvals

The clock’s ticking down on the current coalition government, so there was something of a celebratory air when one of its milestone pieces of promised legislation got…
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Czechs borrow to widen vocabulary

How has the Czech language developed over the past four decades? What expressions do we borrow from other languages and which words have fallen into oblivion? These are…
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Amid consumer frenzy, Czechs urged to give someone a “real gift” for Christmas

The NGO People in Need is active in more than 30 countries the world over, giving immediate aid in humanitarian crises, helping communities threatened by malnutrition…
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Czech women released after two years in captivity say it is hard to believe they are finally free

Two Czech women who were kidnapped in Pakistan in 2013 returned home on Friday after the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation IHH secured their release. The good news…
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Czechs cling to literary traditions in spite of new technologies

March is national reading month in the Czech Republic, with special events taking place all around the country. There has always been a strong reading culture in the…
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Czechs cheerlead talks on EU-US free trade zone

A trade agreement embracing around half of the world’s gross domestic product – that it the goal of ongoing negotiations over an almost seamless free trade zone that could…
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Daily news summary

Family tried to block new gun license received just month before man kills eight The family of the gunman who shot eight people dead in an apparent random attack on a pub…
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The First Defenestration of Prague - what was it and why did it happen?

600 years ago, an angry crowd stormed Prague’s New Town Hall and threw its councillors out of the window. The event, which has since become known as the First…
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News Tuesday, JANUARY 26th, 1999

Kavan dismisses criticism of official stance on racism Czech foreign minister Jan Kavan has dismissed criticism of Czech official stance on racism voiced by some US…
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News Tuesday, APRIL 18th, 2000

Those were the headlines and now the news in more detail: Kohinoor mine to be sold to SHD-Peel The management of the Kohinoor coal mine and representatives of SHD-Peel…
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News Friday, JANUARY 28th, 2000

EU welcomes latest Czech political developments The European Parliament and the European Commission have welcomed this week's amendments to the power-sharing pact between…
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Magazine

A historic Czech town debates whether or not to build a gallows on its main square, why don't more Czechs sort garbage and will St. Valentine's day take root in the Czech…
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Business News

Changes are in the pipeline for both the employed and unemployed - a new Labour Code is being processed and parliament has passed a new bill on employment policies. The…
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A weekly round-up of business news, interviews and comments from leading economic experts

Welcome to Economics Report. Coming up later in the programme, we'll examine whether the Czech lion can - or should even try - to roar like a Celtic tiger. But first, here…
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From the Weeklies

What can the Czech government do for nationals who get in trouble abroad? Will fear of the mad cow disease bring about a revolution in European agriculture? - and who are…
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From the Weeklies

The Czech Republic's historic regional elections presented a sorry picture. Why did two thirds of Czechs turn their backs on local government? Scientists are now able to…
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Petra Francova - Citizens' Advice Bureaux in the Czech Republic

Imagine you turn up for work and you find that your employer has decided to sack you without giving a reason, or your landlord suddenly gives you a week's notice to move…
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Czech Made: The soft contact lens

Hundreds of millions of people around the world wear contacts every day, but they may not be aware that the invention of the modern soft lens came from this country.
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Spotlight - Slovaks in the Czech Republic

Ten years after the split of Czechoslovakia, there are an estimated half a million Slovaks here in the Czech Republic. To find out just why so many Slovaks choose to live…
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“Autumn is one of our top seasons”: Czech Centre London’s fall programme packed with events

We spoke to Přemysl Pela, director of the Czech Centre London, to find out what projects it has lined up for the next few months.
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Jazz organist Ondřej Pivec on making it in New York: Don’t ask questions – just learn it all and be prepared

Ondřej Pivec plays organ with one of the biggest stars in world jazz, singer Gregory Porter. This makes Pivec, who is in his mid-30s, perhaps the most successful non…
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Last Generation’s Arne Springorum: We’re pushing people’s noses into climate crisis

Regular blockades of the through road cutting across Prague have become a fact of life, incensing some drivers. We speak to organiser Arne Springorum of Last Generation.
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Czech ambassador to NATO: The alliance is undergoing a once-in-a-generation transformation

Jakub Landovský, Czechia’s ambassador to NATO, talks about the war in Ukraine, its impacts on global security and whether it can change the world order as we know it.
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Ukrainian classes for refugee children now underway in Czech Republic

Special school classes for Ukrainian children whose families have fled to the Czech Republic are now running in Prague, Brno and other places.
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