Brno's judges cleared the Lisbon Treaty and, once, told the Court of Justice it had gone too far. A careful, sometimes prickly relationship.

A živnost is a registered trade; freelancers register at a trade licensing office (živnostenský úřad), including through a Czech POINT contact point. The type of trade (notifiable free, craft, bound ...

A few years in Prague can build a small state pension, count towards a pension elsewhere, or neither. How the layers work and what to check now.

The annual real estate tax is paid by the owner as of 1 January and is based mainly on area and use, not market value. Municipalities can apply a local coefficient, so the same flat can be taxed ...

Portals show the flats everyone sees. Agencies, developer offices and quieter routes show the rest, each with its own view of whose interest comes first. The main routes to a Prague flat are listing ...

Czechia has public health insurance run by several insurers, and employees are insured in it from the start of employment. Some residence statuses require commercial insurance for foreigners instead, ...

A purchase runs through viewing, checks, reservation, a written contract, payment arrangements and a filing with the land registry. The buyer becomes the owner when the transfer is entered in the ...

A foreigner's papers answer three questions: who you are, whether you are here legally, and whether you may do what you are doing. The right document depends on whether you are from the EU, your ...

The currency of Czechia is the Czech koruna (CZK, Kč), issued by the Czech National Bank; the euro is not legal tender, even though Czechia is an EU member. Cards and contactless payments are accepted ...

Prague public transport is run as one integrated system (PID), planned by ROPID and operated mainly by the city's company DPP. The metro, trams, buses, some suburban trains and the Vltava ferries ...

The degree on a Czech beer (10°, 11°, 12°) measures the gravity of the wort before fermentation, in degrees Plato, and is not the alcohol content. In a traditional pub the beer keeps coming until you ...

Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia are the historic lands of the Czech Crown, and the state coat of arms shows all three. The lands lost their administrative role in 1949; the modern regions, created ...