• Seznam Zprávy: Russians capture Czech citizen who fought in Ukraine
    11/26/2025

    In August of this year, Russian forces captured a Czech citizen who had voluntarily fought in Ukraine. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to ČTK that it is handling the case. According to Russian sources, 21-year-old Hoang Tran, who holds both Czech and Vietnamese citizenship, is facing trial in the Luhansk People’s Republic, an internationally unrecognized separatist entity in eastern Ukraine. He faces a prison sentence of seven to 15 years.
    Author: Jakub Ferenčík

  • Weather forecast
    11/26/2025

    On Thursday, it will be overcast to cloudy with early morning isolated snow. Temperature highs will range from 0 to 4 °C.
    Author: Jakub Ferenčík

  • In western half of Bohemia, black ice to form during night and early morning
    11/26/2025

    Black ice will begin to form on Wednesday evening and on Thursday morning, especially in the western half of Bohemia. Meteorologists from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ) warn of this in their latest alert. Snow will fall across most of the country during the day. In some areas, particularly on the northern slopes of the Jeseníky Mountains, and in northern Bohemia, up to ten centimeters of snow may accumulate, and around 25 centimeters in the Jeseníky region. The snowfall will weaken during the evening and overnight. The weather has been complicating transport in Czechia since Monday.
    Author: Jakub Ferenčík

  • Study: Czechia must invest 3 trillion CZK to decarbonize
    11/26/2025

    To meet the EU’s new climate targets, Czechia will have to invest more than three trillion crowns in industrial transformation and decarbonization. However, the required several-fold increase in investment compared to the present is beyond the financial and technological capabilities of domestic industry. This creates a serious risk of losing competitiveness, especially for energy-intensive companies. These findings come from a study by the consultancy EGU for the Confederation of Industry of Czechia, which their representatives presented to journalists on Wednesday.
    Author: Jakub Ferenčík

  • Chamber starts with criticism of government
    11/26/2025

    Wednesday's session of the Chamber of Deputies began with criticism from ANO vice-chair Alena Schillerová directed at the outgoing government for its management and drafting of the state budget. The main task for MPs is to decide whether to return the draft state budget to the government for revision. Schillerová was the first to speak, exercising her priority right over other speakers in the section reserved for proposing changes to the agenda. At Schillerová’s request, the Chamber also decided that it will be allowed to debate the budget and other items through the night until morning.
    Author: Jakub Ferenčík

  • Babiš assumes that new budget will have to be drafted by his government
    11/26/2025

    The chairman of the ANO movement and likely new prime minister, Andrej Babiš, expects that his government will probably have to prepare next year’s budget. He said this on Wednesday at a press conference before the start of the session at which MPs will debate the budget in its first reading. According to Babiš, developments have shown that the proposal prepared by Petr Fiala’s (ODS) cabinet cannot be fixed. ANO’s shadow finance minister, Alena Schillerová, also confirmed that the ANO–SPD–Motorists majority in the Chamber of Deputies will return the proposal to the government for revision.
    Author: Jakub Ferenčík

  • SPD to oppose holding of Sudeten German congress in Czechia
    11/26/2025

    The parliamentary movement Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) will oppose the holding of the Sudeten German congress in the Czech Republic, SPD MP Lucie Šafránková told journalists in the Chamber of Deputies. Representatives of the Meeting Brno festival invited the Sudeten Germans to Brno. The SPD will demand that the organization return all subsidies from the City of Brno or the South Moravian Region if public funds are used for this event.
    Author: Jakub Ferenčík

  • Czech Ecumenical Council suspends Orthodox Church’s membership for a year
    11/26/2025

    The Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Czech Republic has suspended the membership of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands for one year, citing a serious breakdown of trust and cooperation, the council said in a press release. It pointed to possible Russian influence, possible misuse of church structures for pro-Russian propaganda, and non-transparent financial management. The Orthodox Church has repeatedly rejected accusations that it is pro-Russian or that it supports Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

    The Ministry of Culture informed the council that the church has repeatedly failed to meet its financial obligations to the state and to its employees.

    The Ecumenical Council is an association of churches and religious communities aimed at fostering cooperation among different Christian denominations.
    Author: Hannah Vaughan

  • MPs to decide whether to return proposed state budget

    11/26/2025

    The Czech Chamber of Deputies will vote on Wednesday on whether to return next year’s draft state budget to the government for revision, the Czech News Agency reported. The outgoing government coalition of Petr Fiala (ODS) submitted the proposal with a planned deficit of CZK 286 billion in October, but the incoming ANO, SPD and Motorists coalition claims roughly CZK 96 billion is missing and wants the draft rewritten.

    Andrej Babiš, leader of ANO and likely the next Czech prime minister, said on Tuesday that the draft state budget is unfixable and must be rewritten. The new budget committee, where the incoming coalition holds a majority, has already recommended sending it back.

    The debate is also being linked to the incoming coalition’s proposal – led by SPD – to freeze politicians‘ salaries from January.
    Author: Hannah Vaughan

  • Pavel warns scrapping TV and radio fees could threaten media independence
    11/25/2025

    President Petr Pavel said at the Forum Media 2025 conference that abolishing licence fees for Czech Television (ČT) and Czech Radio (ČRo) — a plan included in the programme of the incoming ANO,SPD and Motorists coalition — could reduce the independence of public media. He said the risk is especially high given the lack of clarity about what the new funding model would look like.

    Pavel also criticised the current trend of politicians addressing citizens not through independent media but through their own channels, targeting specific audiences without any opposing views. This, he said, distorts the public’s understanding of reality.
    Author: Hannah Vaughan

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