European Commission Vice-President Henna Virkkunen has called on social media platforms to step up their fight against disinformation, following an attempt by tens of thousands of migrants to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of C
A cold front swept across Czechia on Monday, bringing temperatures down by roughly 5-10°C. Once it clears, though, the weather will be shaped by a powerful anticyclone moving west to east across Europe, and sunny skies with minimal cloud co
A Porter Airlines flight from Victoria, Canada, to Toronto had to be aborted and the aircraft returned to the terminal — all because of a small child who stood up on their seat and refused to fasten their seatbelt. The airline confirmed the
Radovan Dostál, a Member of the European Parliament for the "Stačilo!" movement, traveled to China together with other MEPs long before House Speaker and SPD leader Tomio Okamura's official visit to the country. The trip took place at the e
In the Czech city of Jihlava, a homeless woman named Gabinka, originally from the Plzeň Region, has repeatedly caused disturbances at the local hospital and on public transport — despite a court order banning her from the district. This was
The Czech government led by Andrej Babiš is considering raising pensions well beyond the level required by law. Under the current indexation mechanism, pensions should increase by roughly 300 crowns a month on average — but Labour and Socia
According to a new opinion poll, the STAN (Mayors and Independents) movement has pulled noticeably ahead of the ODS party in support ratings ahead of the Czech parliamentary elections. Over the past month, STAN gained 2.5 percentage points,
The Czech government has cancelled the annual subsidy of roughly 20 million koruna for the Olympics of Children and Youth — a competition held since 2003, rotating between different regions of the country and aimed at schoolchildren aged 12
Czechia is in the grip of a worsening hydrological drought: according to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, almost all monitored watercourses in the country are running below-average flow rates, with most at extremely low levels — oft
Czech companies are falling behind their American and Asian competitors in adopting new technologies and artificial intelligence, held back by "technological debt" and a level of comfort that saps their motivation to change. That's accordin
The Regional Court in České Budějovice has sentenced 73-year-old former insolvency administrator Václav Svoboda to five years in prison for embezzling nearly 67 million crowns from creditors. For thirteen years, the man — repeatedly appoint
At the end of June, the Czech government approved a decree requiring that by the end of 2028, state and municipal institutions spend at least 65% of their food procurement budgets exclusively on domestic and regional products. The rule appl