This year’s Václav Havel Award for the Advancement of Civil Society handed out by the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 has gone to Fred Malek, one of the most successful U.S. businessmen and...
How Hussitism served the First Republic
When the Czechoslovak Republic was proclaimed in 1918, its primary founder and future president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, had grand plans for using one of the most famous periods in Czech medieval history as inspiration for what...
Daily news summary 2.11.2018
Gender pay gap, Klinika squatters lose appeal, ‘Don’t take away our holidays’
“It was a time full of emotions” – demolition of Marian column recalled 100 years later
This Saturday marks exactly 100 years since the destruction of one of Prague’s then best-known landmarks, a Marian column on Old Town Square. The monumental Baroque structure was built in 1650 in gratitude for the...
Constitutional Court rules against Klinika squatters’ appeal to stay at Prague site
Activists have lost an appeal to remain at an abandoned building in Prague 3 taken over by squatters in 2014 that now houses the alternative Klinika social and arts centre. The Constitutional Court said in...
Babiš signals Czech intention to quit UN migration agreement
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš says he will suggest to government that the Czech Republic doesn’t sign the UN’s Global Compact for Migration, citing ambiguities in its interpretation. The decision mirrors those concluded by the Czech Rep...
Unions’ bracelet campaign aims to keep big retailers closed on holidays
Trade unions have launched a campaign to prevent a 2016 law banning larges stores from operating on certain public holidays from being amended. Some 80,000 retail workers and supporters of the law have taken to...
Czech gender pay gap second widest in EU
Women in the Czech Republic earn on average 80,000 crowns less per year than men do, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Jana Maláčová told a news conference convened ahead of European Equal Pay Day. "The...
Weather outlook
Saturday should be cloudy throughout most of the country with daytime highs of between 9 and 13 degrees Celsius. Rain is likely especially in the regions of Central Bohemia and Southern Moravia. ...
Poll: Babiš (ANO) most popular politician, Bartoš (Pirates) a close second
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) remains the most popular politician according to a new poll by the STEM agency, with just over half of respondents viewing him a favourably. Pirate party chairman Ivan Bartoš, who...