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Czech President Petr Pavel and Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motorists party) are heading to the UN General Assembly in New York — but not together. According to the press offices of the Czech Foreign Ministry and Prague Castle, Pavel, as

Czech President Petr Pavel has vetoed a new civil service law, saying it was passed without standard consultation procedures and proper professional debate. The president's office announced the decision, explaining the head of state's reaso

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, speaking with a voter in early September, questioned the independence of the Czech judiciary while discussing the "Stork's Nest" case, in which parliamentary immunity shields him from criminal prosecution.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš opened the second day of the Prague Defence Summit with a sharp speech in which he criticised participants for failing to discuss peace. According to him, out of more than 300 defence conferences held world

A scandal has erupted around a kindergarten in the southern Moravian town of Dubňany after several children were filmed attacking a four-year-old boy during outdoor playtime — jumping on him, hitting him and taking turns kicking him. The in

The SPD party, which oversees the Czech Ministry of Defence through Minister Jaroslav Zuna, has proposed cutting the ministry's budget by CZK 7.5 billion by scrapping defense procurements that have not yet begun. Under the draft prepared by

Parties forming Czechia's new governing coalition have agreed on the parameters of the state budget. The announcement came from Petr Macinka, leader of the Motorists movement, and SPD chairman Tomio Okamura following coalition talks.Accordi

If the entire Czech state budget were condensed into a symbolic one thousand crowns, roughly 50 crowns of that sum would go toward paying interest on the national debt. According to Investika analyst Vít Hradil, servicing the state debt has

Since the early 2000s, Czechs in search of jobs and housing have been moving en masse to the outskirts of Prague and Brno, while regions in Moravia and Silesia are rapidly losing population. This is according to data from the Czech Statisti

The owner of a newsstand in Sokolov, 65-year-old Jiří, found himself in an absurd predicament: after discovering that the cannabis-branded "Mount Everest" pouches he'd been selling actually contained a banned psychoactive substance, he trie

The Czech government is considering higher taxes on investment property and capital gains to help close a budget deficit projected at 389 billion crowns next year. But according to Metropolitan University economist Dominik Stroukal, speakin

In the spring of 2022, Russian troops herded more than 300 local residents into the basement of a school in the Ukrainian village of Yahidne, while the soldiers themselves took over the floor above. For weeks, people slept sitting up, witho