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05/20/2026
National anti-drug coordinator Pavel Bém does not consider the planned transfer of anti-drug policy from the Government Office to the Health Ministry a good idea. He says it could lead to an epidemic of new synthetic drugs, a fentanyl crisis, rising illness and deaths.
“The healthcare sector cannot manage the security agenda and law enforcement under the Interior Ministry, just as it cannot oversee the fiscal impacts of regulating or not regulating gambling, alcohol or tobacco, which fall under the responsibility of Finance Minister Alena Schillerová,” Bém said in a statement.
The Government Office has overseen anti-drug policy since the turn of 1993 and 1994, when responsibility was transferred from the Interior Ministry. Several attempts to relocate the agenda have appeared in the past, but the plans were abandoned after discussions with experts. Bém noted that this time the decision was made without prior consultation with specialists.
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05/20/2026
Beijing is willing to return Czech-Chinese relations to a path of healthy and stable development as soon as possible, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said today, according to Reuters.
Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka announced plans to restore standard-level relations with China at the beginning of this year. In the past, Beijing frequently criticised Czechia over alleged violations of the One China principle, including visits by Czech politicians to Taiwan and President Petr Pavel’s meeting with the Dalai Lama during celebrations marking his 90th birthday last year.
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05/20/2026
Czech businessman Zdeněk Bakala will stop funding the Václav Havel Library from next year over disagreements with its director, economist Tomáš Sedláček, according to Seznam Zprávy.
The news outlet also reported that the library’s entire 17-member staff plans to leave by early September. Sedláček, who has led the institution since March 2025, declined to comment.
According to Seznam Zprávy, the departures stem from disputes involving both Sedláček and the library’s co-founder Dagmar Havlová.
The non-profit Václav Havel Library was founded in 2004. Its mission is to preserve Havel’s literary, theatrical, and political legacy, focusing on freedom and democracy.
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05/20/2026
Czech Senate Speaker Miloš Vystrčil will join Saturday’s Reconciliation March during the Meeting Brno festival, which will also host the congress of the Sudeten German Association (SdL).
Vystrčil said he wants to support the festival organizers, whose event has received patronage from both himself and President Petr Pavel, as well as broader efforts toward Czech-German reconciliation and dialogue.
He said his decision was also influenced by last week’s vote in the Czech lower house, where the governing coalition majority opposed holding the Sudeten German congress in Brno and called for the event to be cancelled.
Vystrčil said reconciliation would not be possible unless people on both sides of the border continued meeting and listening to one another.
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05/19/2026
Bavarian Premier Markus Söder said the upcoming Sudeten German Congress in Brno is intended as “an offer of reconciliation” with Czechs, adding that this year’s gathering carries special significance as it will be held in the Czech Republic for the first time.
Speaking after a Bavarian government meeting on Tuesday, Söder said that Czech-Sudeten German relations have improved so much in recent years that the Czech national anthem has been played at the congress and Czech politicians have addressed participants.
The Bavarian premier said he regretted the radical criticism the event has faced in the Czech Republic.
The Sudeten German Congress will take place in Brno from May 22 to 25 as part of the Meeting Brno festival, whose organizers invited the Sudeten German association to the city.
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05/19/2026
Wednesday should be partly cloudy to overcast with rain showers around the country and day temperatures between 17 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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05/19/2026
Property prices in the Czech Republic continued to rise in the first quarter of this year, but at a slower pace than a year earlier, according to an analysis by the real estate platform Reas.cz.
Apartment prices rose six percent year-on-year in the first three months of 2026, compared with an 18 percent increase in the same period last year. The price growth of family houses also slowed sharply, rising three percent after a 20 percent jump a year earlier.
Cottages and holiday homes saw the opposite trend. After falling by 10 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of last year, their prices increased by 12 percent this year.
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05/19/2026
National drug policy coordinator Pavel Bém is set to leave his post at the end of June as the agenda moves from the Government Office to the Health Ministry, the news site Novinky.cz reported. He will be replaced by Dita Protopopová, currently head of the government’s mental health policy department, who will take on a newly-created role combining mental health and drug policy coordination.
The government approved the transfer of several agendas from the Government Office to ministries on Monday. The move has come under fire from former national drug policy coordinator Jindřich Vobořil and other experts.
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05/19/2026
Police will investigate whether a woman who displayed a Soviet flag during a Brno city council meeting committed an offence by promoting communism, municipal police spokesman Jakub Ghanem said on Tuesday.
The woman was among several opponents of the upcoming Sudeten German conference, due to take place in Brno this weekend - the first time the event will be held in the Czech Republic.
“You will be tried for collaboration, for undermining the republic and for joining forces with a foreign power,” she told councilors, before pulling out the flag.
Municipal police escorted her from the chamber and verified her identity. According to police, the case will now be reviewed by state authorities.
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05/19/2026
Eighteen people are reported injured in a tram and bus collision that happened in Prague’s Záběhlice district on Tuesday morning. Two of the injured are in serious condition. Emergency services activated a trauma plan designed for incidents involving a larger number of casualties. Traffic in the area has been restricted, according to police and rescue services, which reported the incident on X.
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