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10/13/2025
ANO party leader and likely future prime minister Andrej Babiš meets Motorists' party representatives on Monday. They are discussing the controversy over alleged racist and extremist posts attributed to Filip Turek, the party’s honorary president and candidate for foreign minister. Motorists' leader Petr Macinka defended Turek and ruled out replacing him, saying the party will file a criminal complaint against Deník N daily, which reported on the posts. The affair has provoked criticism from opposition politicians and Roma organizations. Turek has denied accusations of racismn and ANO, Freedom and Direct Democracy Party (SPD), and Motorists' parties continue talks on forming a new coalition government.
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10/13/2025
European subsidies in Czechia often go to tens of thousands of small, economically marginal projects that bring little added value and fail to boost long-term growth or competitiveness, the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) said in its EU Report 2025. The auditors noted that while Czech GDP per capita in purchasing power parity rose from 72 to 91 percent of the EU average since 2004, Poland improved from 47 to 80 percent. NKÚ president Miloslav Kala said the potential of EU funding has not been fully used and called on the new political leadership to focus on fewer, well-chosen priorities to make every euro count.
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10/13/2025
The Czech national football team suffered an unexpected 1–2 defeat to the Faroe Islands in the penultimate match of their World Cup qualifying campaign. It was the second loss for Ivan Hašek’s side in the group, leaving them still uncertain of securing second place in the standings. The Faroese now trail the Czechs by just one point in third.
It was the Czechs’ first-ever defeat against the Faroe Islands after ten straight wins in their previous encounters, and they failed to build on Thursday’s goalless draw at home against group leaders Croatia. The team will conclude their qualifying group in November against Gibraltar.
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10/13/2025
Conductor Robert Kružík has been named this year’s recipient of the Sir Charles Mackerras Prize for young Czech conductors. The Leoš Janáček Foundation grants the award only once every decade, and Kružík is just the second conductor ever to receive it.
Kružík, chief conductor of the Janáček Opera at the National Theatre Brno, received the honor during the opening of the Moravian Autumn festival at the Janáček Theatre on Sunday.
The prize was presented by Catherine Mackerras, daughter of the celebrated British conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, a lifelong champion of Czech music. This year’s edition of the festival commemorates the 100th anniversary of his birth.
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10/13/2025
The state Prize for Literature has been awarded to the writer and publisher Zdena Salivarová Škvorecká, who passed away in August at the age of 91 in Canada. The award honors the co-founder of Sixty-Eight Publishers for her lifelong dedication to Czech literature and its development.
The state Prize for Translation went to Anežka Charvátová, a translator from Spanish, Italian, and French. The ceremony, along with six other Culture Ministry awards, took place at the Estates Theatre in Prague.
The names of the eight winners can be found on the ministry‘s website.
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10/12/2025
Czech tennis player Kateřina Siniaková and Australia’s Storm Hunter won the doubles title at the Wuhan Open, defeating Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina and Serbia’s Aleksandra Krunić 6–3, 6–2 in Saturday’s final. The world No. 1 in doubles secured her 32nd career title and fourth this season.
This year, Siniaková has won with three different partners — the Australian Open and Dubai with American Taylor Townsend, and Seoul with Barbora Krejčíková, before her partner’s knee injury ended their Asian tour.
The Wuhan victory is Siniaková’s third career title with Hunter. The pair first teamed up last year but had to pause after Hunter’s serious Achilles injury, returning together this season.
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10/12/2025
Monday will be cloudy to overcast, with occasional rain showers and day temperatures ranging between 12 to 16°C.
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10/12/2025
The Motorists party will file a criminal complaint against Deník N over an article describing controversial remarks by honorary president Filip Turek, party chairman Petr Macinka said in a debate programme on Czech Television on Sunday.
Macinka also confirmed that if the Motorists nominate candidates for the emerging government with ANO and SPD, they will choose from among their elected MPs. ANO leader and likely future prime minister Andrej Babiš said on Saturday he would prefer the Motorists, like SPD, to nominate experts for cabinet posts.
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10/12/2025
This year’s Czech hop harvest is expected to be slightly above average, according to preliminary estimates, Luboš Hejda, head of the Czech Hop Growers Association, told the Czech News Agency. Favorable weather boosted yields and quality, supporting strong levels of alpha bitter acids.
Production is projected at about 6,900 tonnes of dried hops, roughly matching last year’s 6,494 tonnes. Hops were grown on around 4,800 hectares — half a percent less than in 2023 and 200 hectares fewer than in 2018.
The Žatec region remains the largest with 3,690 hectares, followed by Úštěk with 500 and Tršice with 622. The traditional Žatec semi-early red bine variety still dominates, and growers expect stable acreage as demand for fine aroma hops endures despite lower beer consumption.
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10/12/2025
The 29th annual Forum 2000 conference opens in Prague on Sunday with the presentation of the Courage and Responsibility Award to imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli. The three-day event will bring together over 700 participants from more than 100 countries. Czech President Petr Pavel and former Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili are among the speakers at Monday’s opening panel.
Founded in 2021, the Forum 2000 award honours exceptional civic courage in defending democracy and human rights. Amaglobeli, co-founder of independent outlets Batumelebi and Netgazeti, was arrested in January during peaceful protests in Batumi and later sentenced to two years in prison. She has long stood against authoritarianism, censorship, and political pressure, and was also a finalist for this year’s Václav Havel Human Rights Prize.
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