The United States has held a series of closed-door talks on NATO matters without inviting Britain, France or the Baltic states — even though these countries invest heavily in defence and play key roles within the alliance. The information c
Czech senator, archaeologist and Egyptologist Professor Miroslav Bárta has said that the political and economic elites of Czechia and the European Union have become disconnected from most of society and do not understand how ordinary people
On Wednesday, the new head of the Czech Environmental Inspectorate (ČIŽP), Pavel Straka, introduced himself to the relevant parliamentary committee for the first time — and the closed-door session, which ran late into the night, turned into
The Council of the European Union has given final approval to a new regulation on returning migrants who have no legal right to remain in the EU. The document allows EU member states, for the first time, to set up special centres in countri
The SPD movement, which entered the Czech government for the first time last year, is hoping to establish itself in Prague politics too: the party's list for the capital's municipal elections is headed by architect and urban planner Milan U
Czechia’s Ministry of Defence has cancelled the tender for armoured Bushmaster vehicles, under which the army was due to receive up to 185 vehicles for combat engineers, medics, special forces and the military police. The decision is record
The Czech parties Motoristé and SPD have proposed writing into the constitution a provision that the Czech koruna is the country's official currency. The sponsors hope to find support among both coalition and opposition lawmakers who oppose
A dispute has broken out within the Czech governing coalition: the SPD party has come out against a bill from Minister Juchelka that redefines the concept of “dependent work.” Trade unions argue the amendment could legalise the so-called Šv
The deputy chairman of the Czech party Trikolora, Petr Štěpánek, removed a photo from the party's Facebook page showing a campaign event in the city of České Budějovice — it turned out that an AI had added a crowd of supporters to the image
Czech interior minister Lubomír Metnar, following a selection process, has appointed Colonel Martin Legner as the new director general of the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic (HZS). He will take up the post on 1 October 2026, m
Czech Prime Minister and ANO leader Andrej Babiš has admitted that he trusts no one but himself "in the mirror each morning." The remark came last week in the South Moravian town of Bučovice, where the prime minister travelled together with
Ahead of Ostrava's municipal elections on 9–10 October 2026, the city's opposition and the ruling coalition led by Mayor Jan Dohnal (Spolu) are arguing over what the city administration has, and hasn't, managed to achieve in recent years. T