Czech election winner Babis signals weeks of coalition talks ahead

PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech election winner the ANO party is focused on drawing up a policy agenda with two small parties and will get round to talks on cabinet posts next month, party leader Andrej Babis said on Tuesday, indicating weeks of talks...

Czech government talks stall; potential Foreign Minister accused of racist remarks

Government talks in the Czech Republic have descended into chaos after the leading candidate for foreign minister was embroiled in a scandal over social media posts, Politico reports. The The Motorists for Themselves (Motoristé sobě) party has...

Czech crime boss Krejčíř wins legal battle over laptop charging rights in C-Max prison

Czech fugitive and jailed organised crime boss Radovan Krejčíř faced a dilemma as the court earlier granted him permission to use his laptop in his cell for study purposes, but he cannot charge the device overnight, as he has no plug point in his...

Czech gene bank sends 13th seed shipment to Svalbard vault

Staff from the Czech national gene bank dispatched their 13th consignment of rare seeds to Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault on Monday, the 13th in ten years, the Czech News Agency reported. The shipment includes 150 samples of agriculturally...

Czech Pavilion honoured in Osaka as World Expo 2025 closes

The World Expo in Osaka, which attracted 28 million visitors over the past six months, has drawn to a close. The Czech Pavilion, a striking glass-and-wood structure showcasing Czech culture, design, and technology was honoured by the European...

Taylor Swift Instagram post spotlights century-old Czech Petrof Piano

The company weathered wars, nationalization during the Communist era, and economic crises before returning to family ownership in 2001. Today, Petrof produces around 1,200 pianos annually, with more than 80 percent of the work done by hand using...

How Oxford philosophers supported Czech dissidents — new Brno exhibition tells the story

Sparks of Freedom: remembering British help for Czech dissidents Poster od Sparks of Freedom|Photo: Vít Pohanka, Radio Prague International In Brno’s Moravian Museum, visitors wander among black-and-white photographs showing faces of courage from...

"Our brains and ears can no longer discern what's real or fake," says Czech AI researcher at Stanford

Matyáš Boháček coded his first website at the age of six - an online shop for his grandmother, with whom he enjoyed playing shopkeeper. Later, he developed apps for his classmates and, while still in high school, created a sign language...

Prison head in contempt for not allowing Czech crime boss Krejčíř to charge his laptop

Czech fugitive and jailed organised crime boss Radovan Krejčíř faced a dilemma as the court earlier granted him permission to use his laptop in his cell for study purposes, but he cannot charge the device overnight, as he has no plug point in his...

Czech Krpálek triumphs at judo Grand Prix in Lima

Czech judoka Lukáš Krpálek, a two-time Olympic champion, has won the over-100-kg category at the Grand Prix tournament in Lima. It was his first competition since June’s World Championships in Budapest, where he finished seventh. The 34-year-old...

Czech news in brief for October 14: Tuesday's top morning headlines

Monika Novotna was elected chair of the Czech Bar Association, becoming the first woman to lead the organization. Novotna, a tax and administrative law specialist and former vice-chair since 2021, replaces Robert Nemec, who stepped down to return...

Alex Eala falls to Czech qualifier Valentova in Japan Women’s Open

MANILA, Philippines — Alex Eala got swept by qualifier Tereza Valentova of Czechia, 6-1, 6-2, in the Round of 32 of the Japan Women’s Open on Tuesday in Osaka. Valentova, the current World No. 78, dominated the Filipino tennis ace in an hour and...

Expert: Bureaucracy costs Czech small businesses billions each year

Small businesses in the Czech Republic lose 41 billion crowns annually due to excessive bureaucracy, according to Dominik Stroukal, member of the National Economic Council and economist at Metropolitan University Prague. Speaking at a press...

Babiš vows to personally guarantee Czechia’s foreign and security policy

Andrej Babiš has vowed to personally guarantee Czechia’s foreign and security policy in the new government. In a statement on social media, Babiš responded to concerns that, under the influence of the two smaller parties - SPD and Motorists –the...

New Czech Ambassador to Head to Indonesia

14.10.2025 / 10:29 | Aktualizováno: 14.10.2025 / 10:50 Career diplomat Petr Kopřiva will become the new head of mission in Jakarta. He has already received agrément, i.e., the host country’s consent to his appointment. “I wish Petr Kopřiva every...

Czech Pirates warn about proposed ministerial appointments of far-right politicians

In a letter submitted today, representatives of the Pirates party have formally requested that President Petr Pavel carefully consider the appointment of Filip Turek and Petr Macinka to the positions of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of...

Tereza Šupová (Czech News Office). “Show what the EU is doing and why, in simple language”

“My task is not to write positively about the EU, I do not try to idealize the EU, I just write in a balanced way and bring information that shows what the EU really does, why it does it and how it affects us all,” says Tereza Šupová,...

Standing Committee Members Meets Czech Senate Deputy Speaker Jitka Seitlová

Ulaanbaatar, October 14, 2025 /MONTSAME/. Members of the Standing Committee on Environment, Food, and Agriculture of the State Great Khural (Parliament) of Mongolia met with Deputy Speaker of the Senate of the Czech Republic, Jitka Seitlová, on...

Experts from Czech Republic explore Bhutan’s geopark potential

Bhutan is exploring the possibility of establishing its first geopark, a designation that could combine conservation, education, and community-based development. You must be logged in to make comments. Don't have an account yet? Register here

Les Délices’ “Bohemian Rhapsody” Offers Bohemian Folk Tunes, Music by Czech Composers—and Mozart

Les Délices’ next program, titled Bohemian Rhapsody (not the Queen song!), is a hybrid, offering composed works mingling with traditional Czech folk tunes arranged for a quarter of oboe, violin, viola and cello. They’ll play pieces by two late...