Czech Republic

Property prices in the country are expected to fall or stagnate next year, due to the collapse in demand, after more than a decade of rising prices

The Petřín cable car will soon have a new look thanks to designer Anna Marešová and her team, with panoramic windows and a play of light linked to Petřín's reputation as a meeting place for lovers

One of the favourites to become the next Czech president, Petr Pavel, said he has collected more than the 50.000 signatures of citizens needed to run for office

Interior Minister Rakušan said it was necessary to put pressure on Turkey over the growing number of Syrian refugees arriving in the EU from that country in recent months

Almost 3 decades after Czechoslovakia split into two states, Czechs are still searching for an appropriate English name for their country; the current period of rotating presidency of the European Union and NATO offers an opportunity for a change

Czech health insurance for foreigners is under scrutiny by the EU, after an amendment to the law on health insurance for foreigners was passed last year

The floods that hit the Czech Republic exactly 20 years ago were caused by the close proximity of two major rainy periods that occurred that month, according to a new study by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Giant illuminated and inflatable models of the Sun, Moon, Earth and Mars are currently visible outside the Brno Observatory and Planetarium on Kraví Hora until 11 August

Slovakia, Poland and Italy have offered to send fire-fighting planes to help the country contain a large forest fire in a national park; currently 410 firefighters from 83 units are fighting the fire in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park

The historic carousel from 1890 at Prague's Letná has been reopened after a 16-year renovation; operated by the nearby National Technical Museum, it is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe

The limitations of the European defence industry are due to strict regulations, a lack of raw materials and the inability to apply research results in practice, said Jiří Hynek, representative of the Czech arms industry

According to a survey conducted by In IUSTIA, 76% of disabled people have experienced some form of violence in the last five years and only a fraction of those who have been assaulted have reported to the police

According to this year's report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 23% of 15-34 year olds have tried marijuana at least once, ranking first and on par with the United States