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Claims for damages due to anti-measures coronavirus are beginning to pile up at government ministries. Nearly two dozen entities are demanding a total of 188 million crowns in compensation from the Interior Ministry alone. Hundreds more a reportedly seeking to file joint actions.

The Negrelli Viaduct, the Czech Republic’s longest railway bridge, opened up again for rail travel on Monday after three years of reconstruction work. The structure carries the name Tyrolian civil engineer Alois Negrelli, who is perhaps most famous for his work on the Suez Canal.

Writer and prominent figure in the Czech National Revival.

Just as in many other parts of the world, the coronavirus pandemic has also become a topic for disinformation and fake news in the Czech Republic. According to the country’s Centre Against Terrorism and Hybrid Threats (CTHT) Benedikt Vangeli, fake information related to COVID-19 has had an impact on a small part of the population, but its reach pales in comparison to general media channels.

The European Commission’s 750 billion euro recovery plan, which would use an unprecedented scale of joint debt incurred by the bloc's 27 member countries, is expected to provoke a fierce debate among EU leaders. The immediate reaction from Prague has been a thumbs down from the prime minister, but also calls for solidarity from others.

Czech and Hungarian Queen and Austrian Archduchess, who became the only woman in history to rule the Habsburg monarchy.

The Czech government has approved a draft amendment to the Act on Addictive Substances that will allow issuing licences to both grow and export medical marijuana. The bill would also newly allow more than a single central producer, with the State Institute for Drug Control granting licences to smaller ones.

The Czech state will provide a loan to CEZ to build a new unit at the Dukovany nuclear power station, government leaders have announced. The state should contribute around 70 percent of the expected cost of the major, long-discussed project.

A noblewoman, first the wife of the High Burgrave Wilhelm von Rosenberg, and then Imperial High Chancellor Zdeněk Vojtěch Popel of Lobkowitz.

A water restoration project from the Czech Republic has been selected among the top 10 nominees for this year’s Stockholm Water Prize, known informally as the Nobel Prize of water. Created by the association Živá Voda, it shows how to retain water in the landscape by renewing the small water cycle.