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10/16/2025
Czech firearms manufacturer Česká zbrojovka reported a net profit of CZK 1.03 billion last year, up by about CZK 120 million from the previous year. Sales exceeded CZK 6 billion, compared with CZK 5.85 billion a year earlier.
It was the company’s second-best result ever, following a record year in 2022. The United States remained Česká zbrojovka’s key market, accounting for roughly 40 percent of all weapons sold.
Revenue from sales to armed forces rose by 11 percent, while commercial sales slipped 4 percent. The profit increase was supported by stable energy prices, a favorable exchange rate, and new models such as the CZ Shadow 2 Target pistol and CZ Bren 3 rifle.
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10/16/2025
The Senate has approved Michal Bartoň and Martin Smolek as judges of the Constitutional Court.
Bartoň leads the Department of Constitutional Law at Palacký University in Olomouc, while Smolek previously represented the Czech government at the EU Court of Justice. Both had been endorsed by the Senate’s Human Rights and Constitutional Committees.
President Petr Pavel, who nominated them, attended the Senate session to introduce the candidates. The secret vote concluded this afternoon with both nominations confirmed.
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10/16/2025
President Petr Pavel said he would view it as a gesture of goodwill if Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s government submitted the state budget again for discussion in the new lower house, as requested by ANO party leader and likely future prime minister Andrej Babiš. He plans to convey this view to Fiala in person.
Fiala previously rejected the idea, arguing that the task should fall to the next cabinet, expected to be formed by Babiš’s ANO movement together with SPD and Motorists.
Pavel considers Babiš’s call legitimate, noting that since the outgoing parliament can no longer debate the proposal, it would be appropriate for the new one to do so.
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10/16/2025
Archivists have determined that the document long believed to contain the final words of Czechoslovakia’s first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, was in fact a message intended for then–foreign minister Edvard Beneš dictated to the president’s son Jan Masaryk at the end of August 1934. The finding, based on expert content analysis, was presented at a press briefing at Lany Chateau on Wednesday, several weeks after the sealed letter was ceremoniously opened before the eyes of the public.
Gravely ill, Masaryk abdicated in December 1935 and was succeeded by Beneš as head of state. He died on 14 September 1937. A scanned version of the document, written mainly in English and translated into Czech, can be viewed on the website www.tajemnaobalka.cz
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10/16/2025
President Petr Pavel has called on ANO leader Andrej Babiš to carefully consider whether he wants to risk a “major embarrassment” by appointing Filip Turek from the Motorists’ party to a ministerial post, if it should turn out that the racist statements he is alleged to have posted on social networks in the past are authentic. The newly elected MP, who was being considered for the post of foreign minister, is now being investigated for hate speech by police. Speaking during a visit to the Ústí nad Labem region, Pavel reiterated that Turek should not be part of the government if the allegations against him prove to be true.
The president also said he has no plans to meet Babiš again until there is tangible progress in drafting the government’s policy statement or filling key cabinet posts.
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10/15/2025
The Czech government has approved the establishment of a national housing register that will allow the state to track how many flats exist in the country, where they are located, and their size. According to Regional Development Minister Petr Kulhánek (Mayors and Independents), a basic version of the register should be completed within two years of the approval of the new law on core registers. The system is expected to be fully operational by the next national census in 2031.
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10/15/2025
Thursday should be partly cloudy to overcast and mostly dry with day temperatures between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius.
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10/15/2025
According to media reports, the Executive Committee of the Czech Football Association (FAČR) has dismissed national team coach Ivan Hašek. The committee met to address Hašek’s future following the national team’s shocking 1–2 defeat to the Faroe Islands in Sunday’s World Cup qualifier. Reports say that members voted remotely via email to remove the 62-year-old coach, who took charge of the team in January last year.
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10/15/2025
Almost half of Czechs believe Filip Turek, honorary president of the Motorists’ party and newly elected MP, should quit politics, according to a survey by NMS conducted in the wake of revelations that Turek had posted racist, sexist, and homophobic statements on social media for years. Two-thirds of respondents said that appointing Turek foreign minister, a post to which aspires in the new government, would irreparably damage the Czech Republic’s good name abroad.
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10/15/2025
Police have begun investigating social media posts by Filip Turek from the Motorists' party as possible criminal offenses, including incitement to hatred, defamation of nation or race, and approval of a crime, Prague police spokesman Jan Daněk told the Czech News Agency on Wednesday.
According to Deník N, Turek repeatedly posted racist, sexist, and homophobic statements on social media, including references to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Although Turek has apologized for some of the remarks, he denies authorship of others, and his party has filed a criminal complaint over the Denik N article.
According to Czech Radio, Turek allegedly threatened an employee of the Saudi Arabian embassy eight years ago. A report on Czech Radio’s website iROZHLAS.cz. claims that Turek placed an image of a gallows under the windshield wiper of the employee’s car in a shared garage, while a large hunting cartridge was found on the vehicle’s roof. The incident was reportedly investigated by police at the time. Neither Turek nor the Saudi embassy responded to requests for comment.
The scandal is complicating talks on the emerging coalition government in which the Motorists’ are involved as a coalition partner. ANO deputy leader Karel Havlíček said on Wednesday that Turek has several weeks to clear his name before personnel matters are discussed. President Petr Pavel stated on Tuesday that if the allegations prove to be true, Turek would be disqualified from holding any ministerial position.
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