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05/26/2026
The skull of Saint Zdislava which was stolen and recovered earlier this month, will be displayed at the basilica in Jablonné v Podještědí during this Saturday’s pilgrimage before being returned to its tomb Prague Archbishop Stanislav Přibyl told journalists. He said the Catholic Church had decided not to leave the scared relic on display.
The relic was stolen from the basilica on May 12 by a man who said he objected to the skull having been separated from the saint’s body. He encased it in concrete and planned to throw it in the river as a form of burial. Police apprehended him before he could do so and restorers were able to extract the skull from the concrete without serious damage.
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05/26/2026
Richard Falbr, a prominent politician of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) and a post-1989 founder of the modern Czech trade union movement, has died at the age of 85, Novinky.cz reported.
Falbr spent eight years at the helm of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (ČMKOS), serving as its chairman from 1994. He later represented the Most region as a senator for several years before rounding off his political career with a long tenure in the European Parliament.
Running under the Social Democrats’ banner, he was elected to the European Parliament in the Czech Republic’s first European elections in 2004. He successfully defended his mandate five years later.
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05/26/2026
As of July 1, general practitioners in the Czech Republic will be authorised to prescribe a much higher number of specialized drugs, such as those used to treat diabetes, heart failure and chronic kidney disease, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch (ANO) announced on X.
The change will affect more than 1,000 medicines that currently require specialist prescriptions.
According to Vojtěch, the amendment is intended to reduce administrative burdens and help patients, particularly those with chronic illnesses, to access medication more quickly and conveniently.
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05/26/2026
The Green Circle association of environmental organisations has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO), calling on him to take immediate action against what it describes as increasingly aggressive and dehumanising rhetoric from the Motorists of the ruling coalition.
The letter, signed among others by People in Need director Šimon Pánek and Hnutí DUHA programme director Jiří Koželouh, specifically criticises statements by Motorists party leader and Foreign Minister Petr Macinka and government commissioner for climate policy and the Green Deal Filip Turek.
In recent weeks, Macinka labelled environmental groups “green terrorists” and described Hnutí DUHA as a “terrorist organisation”. The immediate trigger for the letter was Turek’s recent claim that by obstructing the construction of the Nové Heřminovy dam green activists had a share of the blame for lives lost during the floods.
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05/26/2026
The Czech Senate will commemorate the 30th anniversary of its establishment with a ceremonial gathering of current and former members on Tuesday evening.
The gathering will be addressed by President Petr Pavel. Former Senate speakers will also receive symbolic keys to the upper chamber.
The 81-member Senate was formally established in 1996, with its inaugural session held on December 18, 30 years ago.
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05/26/2026
Czech tennis player Karolína Muchová booked her place in the second round of the French Open after defeating Russia’s Anastasia Zakharova 7-5, 6-2 at Roland Garros on Tuesday.
The tournament’s 10th seed will next face Kamilla Rakhimova of Uzbekistan.
By contrast, 12th-seeded Jiří Lehečka suffered an early exit, losing in straight sets to Spain’s world number 89 Pablo Carreño Busta, 3-6, 6-7, 3-6.
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05/25/2026
The Czech hockey team lost to Norway 1–4 in their sixth game at the World Championship in Fribourg, suffering their second defeat in Group B. They can no longer win the group, as today’s opponent pushed them down to third place. Norway secured a spot in the quarterfinals and will play there for the first time in 14 years.
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05/25/2026
President Petr Pavel is the only potential candidate for the next head of state who could receive more than half of the votes. This follows from the results of a survey conducted at the turn of April and May, which was published today on the STEM/MARK agency’s website. According to the survey, 53 percent of people in the Czech Republic would vote or might vote for Pavel, followed by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) with 44 percent.
Among other figures presented to respondents by STEM/MARK, actor and presenter Marek Eben would receive 40 percent, Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlíček (ANO) 35 percent, and Minister of Finance Alena Schillerová (ANO) 30 percent.
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05/25/2026
The television and radio license fee would no longer be paid by households of seniors over 75 years old, or by entrepreneurs and companies with up to 50 employees instead of the current threshold of 24 employees. The extension of exemptions from the fee was proposed in an amendment by a group of coalition MPs led by Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Patrik Nacher (ANO). According to the estimate of the authors, Czech Television and Czech Radio would lose hundreds of millions of crowns in revenue.
According to former Minister of Culture Martin Baxa (ODS), this is another blow against independent public service media.
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05/25/2026
The new Apostolic Nuncio to the Czech Republic is Archbishop Eugene Martin Nugent, who was born in Ireland. After his appointment by Pope Leo XIV, his name was announced today at noon by the Vatican press office, according to Monika Klimentová, spokesperson for the Czech Bishops’ Conference, told ČTK.
The papal nuncio represents the Vatican in the Czech Republic. The outgoing nuncio, Jude Thaddeus Okolo, who is being replaced by the 67-year-old Nugent, became the Vatican’s ambassador to Haiti after his appointment by the Pope this year.
Archbishop Eugene Martin Nugent was born on October 21, 1958, in County Clare in western Ireland. He has most recently served as the Holy See’s envoy to Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain. He is an archbishop in the Irish diocese of Domnach Sechnaill.
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