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01/27/2026
The government has approved financial rewards for medals won at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. In individual sports, gold medalists will receive 2.4 million crowns, silver medalists 1.8 million crowns and bronze medallists 1.2 million crowns, Sports Minister Boris Šťastný (Motorists) said at a press conference after Monday’s cabinet meeting. The same rewards will apply to Paralympic champions.
Czech medalists at the upcoming Winter Olympics will receive the same bonuses as those awarded for successes at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 and at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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01/27/2026
The Czech Foreign Ministry will provide electric power generators to Ukraine, with spending capped at ten million crowns due to the current provisional budget, Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motorists) announced at a press conference in Prague on Monday.
According to Macinka, Czech diplomacy, in coordination with coalition partners, is responding to the critical situation in Ukraine, where Russian attacks have caused long-term electricity outages. The generators will be sent primarily to the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenkova thanked Czechia for the assistance in an evening post on the social network X, mentioning the Czech government, non-governmental organisations and the Czech public. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha also expressed his gratitude to his Czech counterpart Macinka and to the entire Czech government.
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01/26/2026
The government has cancelled a resolution on the posting of ambassadors that had been approved by the previous government. The Babiš administration intends to repeat the selection process transparently and in accordance with its priorities, Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motorists) said on Monday.
The move concerns the leadership of Czech diplomatic missions in Addis Ababa, Baku, Doha, Delhi, Cairo, Lima, Lisbon, Podgorica, Rome, Santiago de Chile and Skopje, as well as the country’s permanent missions in Paris, Geneva, New York and Washington.
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01/26/2026
Total defence spending in this year’s state budget will amount to around 185 billion crowns, which represents approximately 2.07 percent of GDP, Defence Minister Jaromír Zůna (SPD) said after Monday’s cabinet meeting.
According to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš the final figure could reach 2.11 percent of GDP. The original draft budget prepared by the previous government of Petr Fiala (ODS) envisaged defence spending of 2.35 percent of GDP, which at the time corresponded to roughly 206 billion crowns.
Last year, the Czech Republic spent 171.1 billion crowns on defence, equivalent to 2.02 percent of GDP.
Minister Zůna said all existing Defence Ministry projects will continue. According to the minister, the 21-billion-crown reduction in the defence budget will affect new projects that have not yet been announced. These projects are not being cancelled, but postponed until 2027, he added.
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01/26/2026
President Petr Pavel has cancelled Monday’s planned foreign policy consultations with the country’s top constitutional officials at Prague Castle. His office made the move when it emerged that some participants were unable to keep the scheduled time, despite the meeting being postponed by one hour. Prague Castle said in a press release that an alternative term would be sought.
The delay was caused by an extended cabinet meeting during which the cabinet approved the draft of the 2026 state budget. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) apologised to President Pavel for failing to meet the agreed time during a briefing after the government session. According to Babiš, the cabinet on Monday held its most demanding session since taking office in mid-December.
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01/26/2026
Police last year detained 10,838 people who were residing in the Czech Republic illegally. That is 1,377 more than the previous year, representing an increase of 14.6 percent, according to data from the foreigners’ police.
At the same time, transit migration declined significantly. Police detained 148 migrants attempting to pass through Czechia to other European Union countries, compared with 402 in 2024.
According to the report, the highest number of migrants residing in the Czech Republic illegally were Ukrainians, Moldovans and Vietnamese nationals.
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01/26/2026
Chamber of Deputies Speaker Tomio Okamura (SPD) criticized President Pavel’s position ahead of Monday’s foreign policy consultations saying that the proposed draft of a joint declaration which coalition leaders received on Friday was “absolutely unacceptable to the entire coalition”. Okamura said the President’s Office has clearly failed to notice that the new government has a different foreign policy program and outlook from that of its predecessor.
Okamura said that talks on foreign policy should also address the issue of ambassadors and the president’s foreign trips. He added that the coalition believes the president is not acting in accordance with the Constitution in refusing to appoint MP Filip Turek (Motorists for Themselves) as a minister, an aspect which would also influence the tone of the debate.
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01/26/2026
The coalition government of ANO, SPD and the Motorists will not increase defense spending in 2026, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Tomio Okamura (SPD) told reporters after a meeting of the coalition council on Monday. “We have prioritized money for Czech citizens over money spent on armaments,” Okamura added. Spending two percent of gross domestic product on defense is more or less sufficient, he said.
The previous government led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala (Civic Democrats) committed to gradually increasing defense spending to three percent of GDP by 2030.
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01/26/2026
Prices in pubs, cafés and other hospitality businesses have risen by 51 percent since 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. Last year, prices in the hospitality sector increased by four percent, while nominal revenues grew by just over two percent, the Czech News Agency reported.
The data comes from an analysis by Dotykačka, a company that supplies cash register systems.
Restaurant owners have justified price increases by citing higher costs for ingredients, energy, rent and wages, as well as some taxes, including the value-added tax on beer, which was raised two years ago.
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01/26/2026
Tuesday should be partly cloudy to overcast with scattered snow showers and day temperatures between 0 and 5 degrees Celsius.
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