Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Monday outlined his government’s innovation strategy for coming decade. Speaking at a conference at Liechtenstein Palace in Prague, the prime minister said the main goal was for the country to move...
Daily news summary 18.2.2019
V4 summit cancelled,Studénka trial,Prague City Hall on Masin exhumation
EU space programme set for major expansion in Prague
A plan to revamp the Prague-based European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency is being keenly followed in the Czech Republic. The move could see even more investment in the country’s space industry, which has been flourishing...
Masopust in Roztoky
The winter Masopust carnival, a Czech equivalent of Mardi Gras, dates back many centuries in Bohemia and Moravia. People travel long distances to take part in the Masopust masked parade at Roztoky near Prague, which...
Quo vadis, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš? For everyone, to Europe.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has been re-elected chairman of the ANO party that he founded seven years ago, running unopposed at the party’s congress on Sunday. Polls show Mr. Babiš remains the most popular, trusted politician...
Weather forecast
Tuesday should bring clear to partly cloudy skies with day temperatures between 8 and 12 degrees Celsius. Night time lows between 0 and -4 degrees. ...
Czechia to nominate Vamberk lace for place on UNESCO list
The region of Hradec Králové is seeking to get Vamberk bobbin lace a place on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The Czech Republic is expected to make a nomination before the end of the...
Press: NWR's British liquidator threats to sue Czech state over ‘nationalisation’ of OKD miner
The British liquidator of New World Resources (NWR) is threatening to sue the Czech state in connection to it taking over the coal miner OKD, formerly a part of the energy company, the business daily...
Prague City Hall to negotiate with Zdena Masin on exhuming her mother’s remains
Prague City Hall has agreed to start negotiating with Zdena Mašín about the possibility of exhuming her mother’s remains from a mass grave in Prague’s Ďáblice cemetary. The city hall earlier ruled out the possibility in...
Exhibition brings Aschers “back to Prague in a style worthy of what they accomplished”
Newlyweds Zika and Lida Ascher left Prague in early 1939 for the UK. There Zika Ascher launched a silk business that was soon thriving – and began approaching top artists, including Matisse and Henry Moore,...