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Prague - The Prague Municipal Court sentenced Czech lobbyist and businessman Roman Janousek to three years in prison over knocking down a woman with his car while drunk driving three years ago. ......

Prague - The Czech Republic, which entered the EU on May 1 ten years ago, faces a difficult task at the start of a new period: to return to the original ethos of 2004 and to be again able of comprehending......

Washington - The USA is dissatisfied with the Czech Republic' too low defence budget that is twice smaller than that prescribed by the NATO rules, Defence Ministry spokesman Jan Pejsek said about......

Prague - Billionaires Petr Kellner and Pavel Tykac are in talks about buying media group CME which controls, among other things, Czech private television station Nova, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD)......

Prague - Banks in the Czech Republic granted 17,680 mortgage loans worth Kc28.9bn to citizens in the first quarter of this year and the volume of the newly granted loans grew by 3.9 percent year on......

Frankfurt - Czech car maker Skoda Auto made an operating profit of EUR185m (Kc5.08bn) in the first quarter of this year, a growth of 65.2 percent compared with the first quarter of 2013, Skoda's......

Beijing - Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek has received in Beijing an invitation for President Milos Zeman to visit China, Zaoralek told Czech journalists today, adding that the date has not......

Prague - Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralak (Social Democrats, CSSD) "is ingratiating himself with Chinese comrades," though his approach will most likely not boost bilateral trade,......

Beijing - Tibet is an inseparable part of China and the Czech Republic does not support its independence in any form, says a statement the Czech and Chinese foreign ministers, Lubomir Zaoralek and......

Prague - Some 25 percent of Czechs would vote for the ANO movement, a member of the coalition government, if the elections to the European Parliament were held now, according to a poll conducted by......

Prague - The Czech government today approved state aid for a phase-out of the Paskov mine in northern Moravia, where mining will continue for three more years and the government will pay 600 million......

Bratislava - Slovak natural gas transport company Eustream and Ukrainian company Ukrtransgaz today signed a memorandum on gas supplies back to Ukraine which will thus lower its dependence on Russia......

Prague - Josef Stredula, 46, a new chairman of the Bohemian-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (CMKOS), is taking up the post in a situation that is hardly enviable, Miroslav Korecky writes in......

Prague - All major Czech dailies today comment on the proposal of President Milos Zeman that the Czech Republic mediate negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, presented at the Eastern Partnership......

Prague - The Czech police have accused the editor of a book on Islam of promoting a movement suppressing human rights and freedoms after a raid in two Prague centres of the Islamic Foundation on Friday,......

Prague - Czech President Milos Zeman appreciates the centre-left government´s increase in pensions and the planned introduction of child birth bonus also for second child, but he dislikes the missing......

Brno - Czech President Milos Zeman has "won" Oil Guzzler, mock prize for the worst anti-environmental step in 2013, and Finance Minister Andrej Babis won the Green Pearl for the worst statement,......

Prague - Czech police detained five people in a raid on the Muslim community in Prague, handcuffed them and drove them away in a van today, Pavel Hantak, spokesman for the Squad for Uncovering Organised......

Prague - The decision of Social Democrat (CSSD) Michal Hasek to give up his seat in Czech parliament is a preparation for retaliation rather than his defeat, Vaclav Dolejsi writes in daily Mlada fronta......

Prague - South Moravia Regional Governor Michal Hasek and Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (both Social Democrats, CSSD) are simply men who don´t like one another, Alexandr Mitrofanov says in......