The ANO movement has announced its goal for the Czech local elections of 2026: to match the result from four years ago, when the party won a majority of mayoral posts in the country's major cities. This was stated by ANO's first deputy chai
Today, 5 October, Václav Havel would have turned 90 — the leading Czech playwright, dissident, and first president of post-socialist Czechoslovakia and later Czechia. Almost fifteen years have passed since his death, and an entire generatio
A premium SMS scam is still active in Czechia, quietly draining money from thousands of subscribers for years. A check of phone numbers found that members of parliament were among the victims too: at least 22 MPs were paying 99 crowns a wee
The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has polled 30% support for the first time in its history, while the ruling Christian Democratic bloc CDU/CSU of Chancellor Friedrich Merz has slumped to a historic low of 18%. These are the
A year ago, Andrej Babiš's ANO party won Czech parliamentary elections, promising voters cheaper mortgages, cheaper petrol and the abolition of some fees. A year on, a popular satirical show about Czech politics has pointed out that some of
Britain’s Green Party, which won six percent of the vote in the 2024 election, passed a resolution at its annual party conference on Sunday defining Zionism as a form of racism. According to Reuters, 1,022 delegates voted in favour and 813
Czech MP Filip Turek, from the Motoristé party, has published an apology to Seznam.cz on Facebook, after earlier accusing the company of secretly letting its employees access users’ email. He published it by order of the Prague Municipal Co
The co-pilot of a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv attacked the captain with an emergency axe on Wednesday and tried to seize control of the aircraft, but was overpowered by passengers and part of the crew; the plane landed safely in
Spanish retail chain Zara Home has withdrawn a children's Halloween costume from sale after social media users spotted a resemblance between its striped pattern and the uniforms worn by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, including Ausch
Brno and the South Moravian Region failed to reach an agreement with airlines on regular flights to Frankfurt: the tender announced for the route attracted not a single bid from carriers. The local governments had planned to launch the flig
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German company GICON has unveiled a wind turbine standing 365 meters tall — the tallest structure of its kind in the world and the second-tallest structure in Germany. According to company founder Jochen Großmann, the tower is 35 meters tal
Water levels in Czech rivers have dropped to 10–50% of their long-term average, and in some places only a tenth of the usual volume is flowing. In Prague, the Vltava's inflow at the Praha-Chuchle station is currently around 40 cubic metres