Czech Republic

Business Planet

The power of business clusters

In partnership with The European Commission

Business Planet travels to the Czech Republic to see how one nanotechnology cluster is helping SMEs scale-up and go international.

17/05/2019

Business Planet

The Czech cluster boosting tech talent

In partnership with The European Commission

Business Planet speaks to an award winning Czech cluster to find out how it is helping high-tech SMEs maximise their potential.

17/05/2019

Czech Republic

Road Trip Day 43 Brno: Czech transport infrastructure 'way behind'

The lack of a decent road system is hampering economic development, according to the people Euronews spoke to on the latest day of its road trip ahead of the European elections. Since 2000, the Czechs have built only 300km of new highways.

15/05/2019

Czech Republic

EU elections 2019: Who is Jan Zahradil?

The 56-year-old Czech MEP is running to become the next president of the European Commission. Here's what you need to know.

13/05/2019

Sport

Czech footballer Josef Sural killed in Turkey crash

Czech international striker Josef Sural, who played for Turkish club Alanyaspor, was killied in a minibus crash early Monday.

29/04/2019

World

Europe's far-right leaders plead for unity in Prague rally

Tomio Okamura had been using social media to call on supporters to rally against immigration and “diktats” coming from the European Union.

25/04/2019

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Tightrope walkers in Prague to highlight new mental health plan

The stunt marked the ministries' cooperation on a new plan for mental healthcare in the country, which they say is designed to move mental health patients out of specialist wards and hospitals and provide more care directly in communities.

03/04/2019

Living

When plastic is welcome

Watch this Czech artist creating masterpieces out of upcycled plastic bottles.

30/03/2019

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Artist creates lifelike sculptures from plastic bottles

Artist Veronika Richterova has a shed full of bags of plastic bottles at her home in the small Czech town of Bustehrad — the raw material for her lifelike sculptures.

26/03/2019

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Czech zoo hopes albino wallaby will become star attraction

A Czech zoo welcomed the arrival of an albino wallaby baby and raised hopes that it will become the zoo's new star attraction.

14/03/2019

Smart Regions

Supercomputer supercharging innovation in the Czech Republic

In partnership with the European Commission

A supercomputing centre is helping Czech firms to accelerate innovation in areas ranging from custom-made medical prostheses to new train seats.

14/03/2019

Czech Republic

Czech man killed by lion he kept as pet

A Czech man was mauled to death by a lion he illegally kept as a pet.

05/03/2019

Czech Republic

The open ice climbing wall in the heart of Prague

Climbers set up ice wall in centre of Czech capital city

28/01/2019

Czech Republic

Czechs march in tribute to 1969 student activist's self-immolation

Czechs pay tribute to student who set himself on fire 50 years ago

17/01/2019

Czech Republic

Several dead in Czech coal mine blast

More than a dozen people have been killed in an explosion at a coal mine in the Czech Republic.

21/12/2018

Living

Preserving a Christmas craft

A small family business in the Czech Republic is the last place where traditional Christmas decorations from blown glass beads are still made.

04/12/2018

Czech Republic

Czechs protest for the prime minister’s resignation

The government survived a vote of no-confidence over fraud allegations implicating the Prime Minister which he denies.

24/11/2018

Czech Republic

Czech protesters call for Babis to quit over EU funds scandal

Thousands marched to call for the Czech Republic’s billionaire prime minister to quit amid an EU funds scandal.

18/11/2018

Czech Republic

Czech out? PM Babis told to resign after son’s ‘sent to Crimea’ claim

Czech PM Andrej Babis has hit back after his son claimed he’d been sent abroad to block a fraud investigation.

14/11/2018

Czech Republic

100th anniversary of Czechoslovakia

100th anniversary of Czechoslovakia

28/10/2018

Czech Republic

Czech presidident references Khashoggi death in jibe at journalists

“I love journalists, that’s why I may organise a special banquet for them this evening at the Saudi embassy,” Zeman said.

26/10/2018

Business Planet

Booming bags: how EU Special Financing has helped a Czech company take on the world

In partnership with The European Commission

A major weapon in the fight against single-use plastic is coming out of the Czech Republic, in part thanks to an EU scheme freeing up finance for small companies where banks fear to go.

05/10/2018

Living

Prague's 600-year-old medieval clock returned

Restoration works have been made for the clock to go back to its 19th-century mechanical design.

27/09/2018

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Haunting memory - tourists flock to ghostly church

The church of Saint George, in the village of Lukova, Czech Republic, features some unearthy sights.

05/09/2018

Czech Republic

Prague Spring at 50: what happened and what is its legacy?

It's 50 years since a Russia-led invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia put down an liberal uprising called the Prague Spring.

20/08/2018

Czech Republic

Watch: Endangered baby gibbon introduced to Prague zoo

WATCH: The Silvery Gibbon is one of the world's rarest primates.

15/08/2018