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09/29/2025
President Petr Pavel met with opposition leader Andrej Babiš (ANO) on Monday, to inquire how he would comply with conflict-of-interest laws, relating to his Agrofert business empire, if tasked with forming the next government. Pavel also raised the Storks’ Nest fraud case. In June, the Prague High Court overturned Babiš’s earlier acquittal, ruling that elements of criminal conduct were present. The case now returns to the lower court, which must follow the appeals court’s legal view. This means that Parliament might have to vote on lifting Babiš’s immunity.
Babiš told Czech News Agency that he had assured the president that if he were tasked with forming the next government he would fully comply with Czech and EU law. He added that he had given the president documents which indicate that the case against him is politically driven.
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09/29/2025
Czech paddler Jakub Krejčí secured bronze in the kayak cross time trial at the World Championships in Penrith, Australia. In Monday’s opening race, he finished behind Spain’s David Llorente and Britain’s Joseph Clarke, earning the first medal for the Czech team.
The 23-year-old lost 1.68 seconds to the winner and missed silver by just 0.56 seconds. Fellow Czech competitor Matyáš Novák finished fifth in the discipline, which also serves as a qualifier for Olympic kayak cross heats.
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09/29/2025
The seven key holders of the Coronation Chamber representing state, church, and city authority will gather this evening in St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle to return the crown jewels, which were on public display, to their place of safekeeping. The ceremony will take place two to three hours after the exhibition of royal insignia closes at 5 p.m. on Monday in the Vladislav Hall of the Old Royal Palace.
The chamber keys are held by the president, the speakers of both parliamentary chambers, the prime minister, the Archbishop of Prague, the mayor of Prague, and the dean of the St. Vitus Metropolitan Chapter. The tradition of displaying the jewels dates back to the First Republic, with the first public exhibition held in 1929 to mark the millennium of St. Wenceslas’s death. The jewels have been displayed altogether nine times since the founding on the Czech Republic in 1993.
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09/29/2025
On the occasion of Czech Statehood Day, Senate President Miloš Vystrčil (Spolu) presented silver commemorative medals to outstanding personalities from different walks of life who excel in their field of activity.
Among the twenty laureates honoured this year were priest Ladislav Heryán, war reporter Vojtěch Boháč, actor and director Jiří Mádl, and Karel Strachota, founder of the “One World in Schools” program, and rearcher Matyáš Boháček from Stanford University who specializes in artificial intelligence.
The tradition of awarding silver medals on St. Wenceslas Day began in 2012.
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09/28/2025
Thousands gathered in Prague’s Old Town Square on Sunday for a rally organized by the civic group Million Moments for Democracy to warn against the danger of populist and extremist parties entering the government and parliament after the autumn elections. Participants carried Czech, EU, and Ukrainian flags, as well as banners reading “We don’t want Russia here” and “Everything is at stake.”
In recent days, Million Moments for Democracy also launched a public appeal urging voters to back pro-Western parties in the upcoming election. The movement says it aims to reach undecided voters through public discussions and events.
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09/28/2025
Czech authorities are examining the activity of hundreds of fake accounts on TikTok that may be attempting to influence the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections, the news site Deník N reported.
According to Deník N, the accounts spread pro-Russian content critical of the EU and NATO, defending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and promoting parties such as SPD and Stačilo!, which oppose Czech membership in the EU and NATO.
The Telecommunications Office (ČTÚ) has confirmed that it is investigating the accounts. While the Office is not addressing the content itself, it is focusing on whether the accounts are automated bots.
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09/28/2025
Monday should be partly cloudy and mostly dry with day temperatures between 12 and 16 degrees Celsius.
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09/28/2025
Two newly-completed stretches of the D6 motorway between Karlovy Vary and Prague, officially opened to drivers on Saturday.
The nearly 15-kilometer section diverts transit traffic away from villages in the Rakovník region and speeds up travel between the capital and western Bohemia. Motorists can now drive continuously on the D6 from Prague to the border of the Ústí and Central Bohemian regions.
The project cost almost four billion crowns, more than half funded by the European Union. The full highway between Karlovy Vary and Prague is scheduled for completion in 2028, according to the Roads and Motorways Directorate.
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09/28/2025
Prague’s Vltava riverbanks are alive this weekend with the launch of a multi-genre festival “Discover the Vltava”. Stretching from Podolí to Bubeneč, the event offers guided tours of usually inaccessible sites, theater performances, art workshops, and interactive walks.
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09/28/2025
Political relations between the Czech Republic and Slovakia would improve if Andrej Babiš became the next Czech prime minister, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini said ahead of next weekend’s general elections.
In a radio debate on Slovak public broadcaster STVR, Pellegrini criticized Czech Deputy Prime Minister Vít Rakušan for recently attending an anti-government protest in Bratislava. He also claimed Slovakia is being exploited in the Czech election campaign.
Intergovernmental consultations between Prague and Bratislava were suspended in March 2024, when the Czech government cited differences in key foreign policy views. Since then relations between the two governments have remained cool. Babiš said earlier that he would renew the intergovernmental consultations if he got to form the next government.
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