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10/27/2026
The Ministry of Transportation plans to increase tolls for trucks weighing more than 3.5 metric tons starting in the middle of next year, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday.
In the most common category of trucks, those weighing more than 12 metric tons, the rate per kilometer is set to rise by 18.5 percent on motorways and by 26.6 percent on Class I roads.
The goal is to bring toll rates for heavy trucks in line with those in neighbouring countries, the Ministry said.
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10/27/2026
An extraordinary tax on refineries’ increased margins approved by the government at the end of September will threaten the entire Czech industrial sector, the country’s Confederation of Industry said on Tuesday.
The government proposal could classify even a simple return to normal production levels as an extraordinary profit, the Confederation argues. Moreover, the Czech model is stricter than some similar measures introduced abroad. The Confederation has therefore called on the government to reconsider the tax, it said.
Last month, the government decided to impose an extraordinary tax on refineries that will apply this year and next year. The tax will be levied on the increase in margins compared with 2025. The move comes in response to a rise in refinery margins caused by disruptions to the global oil market.
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10/27/2026
Students from Brno’s Masaryk University have announced a strike alert in protest at the government’s plans to end the license fee system for Czech Television and Czech Radio and bring the public broadcasters under the state budget.
Meanwhile, the rectors of Masaryk University and the Brno University of Technology expressed concern over the potential weakening of public media on Tuesday.
Prague’s DAMU drama school, which is part of the Academy of Performing Arts, also announced a strike alert and said it would join a one-day strike by Czech Television and Czech Radio staff on November 3.
The government parties deny that the independence of the broadcasters will be undermined by the change in funding.
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10/27/2026
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 11 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to see similar weather.
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10/27/2026
The opposition plans to challenge a law pushed through by the ruling coalition that limits the president's powers. The motion to challenge the law at the Constitutional Court received backing from 53 MPs and 38 senators.
The disputed amendment transfers the authority to appoint and dismiss heads of Czech permanent missions to international organisations, including NATO and the United Nations, from the president to the foreign minister.
The opposition argues that the change interferes with the powers of the head of state in violation of the constitutioal order.
The president himself vetoed the law, but the veto was overridden by the ruling parties’ majority in the lower house.
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10/27/2026
The internal affairs unit of the police force is investigating Friday’s incident in which visitors were removed from the public gallery of the Czech lower house. Interior Minister Lubomír Metnar said that the parliamentary security committee would also examine the circumstances at its next meeting on November 3.
A group of visitors was removed while MPs were debating a controversial bill to abolish license fees for the country’s public broadcasters. Some of them had been shouting and whistling at MPs during the session.
Metnar defended the police response, saying officers had called for order and warned visitors of possible consequences before removing them.
He added however that the incident needed to be clarified and reviewed.
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10/26/2026
The government has backed an amendment to the Criminal Code that would limit the powers of appeal courts.
The bill also includes other controversial provisions, including the possibility of disclosing a person's nationality in criminal proceedings and an explicit obligation for prosecutors not to withhold evidence in court that could support the defence.
Justice Minister Jeroným Tejc said after the cabinet meeting that the amendment addressed the most pressing problems in criminal proceedings and was intended to make them more efficient. A comprehensive revision of the law is expected to be drafted in around a year and a half.
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10/26/2026
The government has extended fuel price regulation until November 30, Finance Minister Alena Schillerová said after Monday’s government session.
The measures, in force since October 1, include price caps on petrol and diesel and a reduction in diesel excise duty. The government sets maximum prices for both fuels, while petrol stations are limited to a margin of CZK 2.50 per litre. Diesel excise duty has been cut by CZK 2.35 per litre.
Schillerová said the tax reduction was the maximum permitted under EU legislation.
Fuel price regulation was also introduced earlier this year, remaining in place from early April until mid-July.
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10/26/2026
The government has nodded to a proposal to enshrine the Czech crown as the country’s currency in the Constitution, Czech Television reported on Monday.
The proposal was submitted by a group of coalition politicians from Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) and the Motorists’ party. Representatives of ANO, the leading party in the ruling coalition, are notably absent from the list of signatories.
As the proposal involves a constitutional amendment, it would require support from 120 MPs to pass, that is 12 more than the ruling coalition has in the lower house. Its sponsors hope to secure support mainly from the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), although its leader, Martin Kupka, has rejected the proposal.
Upon joining the European Union, Czechia committed to taking steps towards adopting the common European currency.
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10/26/2026
President Petr Pavel will promote Chief of the General Staff Miroslav Hlaváč to army general, the highest rank in the Czech military, at a state ceremony at Prague Castle on October 28.
On the government’s recommendation, Pavel will also promote Prison Service Director General Tomáš Hůlka to lieutenant general, the highest rank in the country’s security services.
In the military, Deputy Chiefs of the General Staff Petr Čepelka and Pavel Lipka, as well as Operations Command chief Jaroslav Míka, are also to be promoted to lieutenant general.
The government has proposed a total of 16 men from the armed forces and security services for promotion.
The president promotes members of the armed forces, police, fire service and other security forces to general ranks twice a year, on Czechoslovak Independence Day and May 8.
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