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Embattled Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babiš faced a special session of the lower house on Wednesday to explain the circumstances surrounding EU funding for his Stork’s Nest farm and conference centre. The minister heard accusations of fraud and unethical conduct and his one-and-a-half hour address failed to convince opposition deputies. At the end of the stormy session the ruling coalition, which is trying to ride out the storm, pushed through a motion to postpone further debate until the outcome of an EU investigation on the matter.

Czech police will be out in force over the Easter holidays, monitoring traffic on the country’s major highways but also minor roads. The aim is prevent drinking and driving over a period when tragic road accidents, sadly, have only gone up.

Czech officials across the political spectrum have condemned the terrorist attacks against innocent civilians in Brussels on Tuesday which left more than 30 people dead and at least 200 wounded. In their reactions to the attacks, the politicians stressed the need for coordinated action on the part of the EU and said it was crucial not to be intimidated by terror.

The devastation of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels, which left more than 30 civilians dead and 200 injured, has begun to sink in. At the same time many have been left wondering what should be done next, namely to prevent similar such attacks from being repeated.

Tensions are running high in the Czech ruling coalition over a proposed conflict of interests bill which would ban government officials from business and media ownership. The bill is widely seen as targeting ANO leader, billionaire businessman and Finance Minister Andrej Babiš. His party has closed ranks around Mr. Babiš, warning its coalition partners that support for the bill could topple the ruling coalition.

Researchers from Masaryk University in Brno recently recorded unique evidence of how some cancer cells cooperate to create a new cell highly resistant to chemotherapy. Until now, it was thought that when one cell entered the other, it was cannibalised. Researchers in Brno found in many cases the opposite was true; the cell which entered was the more active. Above all, the new joined cell combined qualities of both, while growing more resistant to treatment. It could be one reason why cancer thought to be defeated in a patient latently survives to

The Slav Epic is the monumental work of Czech painter Alfons Mucha in which he traces the history of the Slav peoples. But over the years the fate of the 20 massive canvasses, which Mucha regarded as his lifetime achievement, has also turned into something of a saga between the descendants of the painter and the City of Prague. And the latent tension between them has just taken a new twist.

Sparta Prague created the upset of the night in football's Europa League on Thursday night when they routed and humbled Lazio Rome 3:0 away. They are now rubbing shoulders with some major clubs in the last eight of the competition and face a tricky trip to Spain.

A scandal over the suspect misuse of 50 million crowns in EU funding of the Stork’s Nest farm and conference centre, owned by Finance Minister Andrej Babiš, is continuing to simmer ahead of a special session of the lower house. The finance minister maintains that the application for European funds was put forward by the building’s former owner but is being called on to explain more next week. Coalition partners, the Social Democrats, are also holding a special meeting on Friday to discuss the matter.

A two-day summit chaired by European Council President Donald Tusk began in Brussels on Thursday, with European leaders embarking on a fresh round of negotiations with Turkey on a stalled plan designed to tackle the ongoing migrant crisis. In its recommendations to the Czech cabinet issued on the eve of the summit, the Senate called for a rejection of the current EU-Turkey agreement until a clear signal was sent to migrants that the days of an “open-door policy” were over.