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11/27/2025
Germany’s foreign ministry is urging travellers to Czechia to pay close attention to hygiene because of the ongoing hepatitis A outbreak. In updated travel advice, it recommends thorough handwashing and says vaccination against hepatitis A is advisable when visiting Czechia, although it is not mandatory.
Czechia is experiencing what health officials say is likely its largest hepatitis A outbreak in decades. By mid-November, more than 2,500 cases had been reported—four times more than in all of last year and the highest number since 1989. The last major nationwide outbreak was in 1979, when over 32,000 people fell ill.
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11/27/2025
A 27-year-old Czech man has been killed in the fighting in Ukraine, his former secondary school in Uherské Hradiště announced on Thursday, saying he had died last week on the front near Izium. His family informed his former class teacher of his death.
The foreign ministry has confirmed it is aware of the case and is in contact with the family, but has released no further details. According to available information, he is the fifth Czech citizen known to have been killed in the war in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion.
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11/27/2025
Prague firefighters dealt with a major gas leak on Jaromírova Street in Nusle on Thursday morning, after a construction crew damaged a gas pipeline. All traffic in the area, including trams, had to be stopped for about an hour while the emergency services secured the area.
The leak was brought under control shortly after 9 a.m., and gas supplies to residents were not disrupted. In the end, it wasn’t necessary to evacuate people from nearby buildings.
Emergency gas technicians remain on site to check the pipeline.
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11/27/2025
President Petr Pavel received representatives of the Council of the Czech Republic’s Association of Regions at Prague Castle on Thursday. The discussions included transferring funding for non-teaching school staff from the state to school founders, primarily municipalities and regions, as well as road repair funding and the reimbursement decree.
The meeting with current and former regional governors and Prague mayors was held to mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the regions. The Czech head of state emphasized the regions’ crucial role in managing crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, floods, and the South Moravia tornado, noting that they have become a standard part of the Czech political system, serving as a link between municipalities and the state.
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11/27/2025
MPs will meet on Thursday evening to discuss the future conflict of interest of ANO leader Andrej Babiš. The extraordinary session of the lower house was convened by MPs from the minority parties KDU-ČSL, ODS, STAN, TOP 09, and the Pirates. The debate is not expected to result in a resolution.
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11/26/2025
The Chamber of Deputies returned next year’s draft budget to the government for revision. According to ANO, the proposal lacks roughly 96 billion CZK needed for transport construction, co-financing of agricultural projects, and part of the mandatory expenditures of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
The outgoing government now has 20 days to make adjustments. It is expected to focus on budget revenues in connection with a more favorable economic growth forecast, and, in cooperation with the National Budget Council, to review certain social expenditures.
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11/26/2025
The Senate has once again proposed a constitutional amendment that would grant the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) the authority to audit the finances of Czech Television (ČT) and Czech Radio (ČRo).
The upper chamber of Parliament agreed on this on Wednesday with 48 of its 54 members present voting in favor. The senators from STAN ultimately did not propose postponing the debate on the amendment. The amendment will now be reviewed by the government and the Chamber of Deputies.
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11/26/2025
President Petr Pavel today received Yuliya Navalnaya, widow of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, at Prague Castle. Navalnaya has become a symbol of resistance against Vladimir Putin’s regime, and thanks to her, her husband’s legacy lives on despite the risks, the Czech president wrote on X after their meeting. In the evening, Navalnaya will take part in a discussion at the Václav Havel Library, focusing among other things on a biographical book about her husband, which Navalny wrote before his death.
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11/26/2025
Members of Parliament have been arguing for roughly seven hours about the draft state budget for next year. It was submitted by the outgoing government of Petr Fiala (ODS), and the incoming coalition of ANO, Motorists, and SPD wants to return it for revision. According to the new coalition, it lacks about 96 billion crowns needed for essential expenditures. Opposition speakers are also calling on the coalition to present its own budget. The debate has also touched on disputes over who is responsible for problems with the digitalization of the construction permitting process.
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11/26/2025
ANO leader and the country’s likely future prime minister Andrej Babiš on Wednesday presented President Petr Pavel with the proposed line-up of his future coalition cabinet of ANO, SPD and the Motorists. The president said he would begin interviewing individual candidates on Friday, but refused to accept the nomination of Filip Turek, honorary president of the Motorists, who has come under fire for controversial racist and homophobic posts on social media.
The Motorists originally nominated Turek to the post of foreign minister, but later swapped portfolios and proposed him for the post of environment minister instead. According to Babiš, the president expressed the view that he should not be a member of the government at all, citing “legal reasons”. The ANO chairman said he respects the president’s decision and would discuss the matter with the Motorists.
All three parties have selected their own nominees to their given portfolios.
The consultations with individual nominees are expected to begin on Friday and should wind up within a fortnight.
President Pavel still expects Babiš to explain publicly how he intends to resolve his conflict of interest due to ownership of the Agrofert holding before he is appointed prime minister. No specific date has been set, but according to the Castle the new government could be in place by mid-December.
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