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05/13/2026
Czechs are divided on whether President Petr Pavel should appeal to the Constitutional Court if the government of Andrej Babiš prevents him from attending major international events, suggests a poll conducted for the news site Novinky.cz by the NMS agency. Some 41 percent of respondents said they backed such legal action, while 42 percent said they were against it.
Mr. Pavel said last week that he was considering filing a jurisdictional action with the country’s highest court as Prime Minister Babiš and the foreign minister, Petr Macinka, have said he will not be part of the Czech delegation at a NATO conference in Turkey in July.
In the past presidents have usually represented the country at NATO summits.
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05/12/2026
The Disciplinary Committee of the Czech Football Association has awarded victory in last Saturday’s game between Slavia Prague and Sparta Prague to the latter by default.
Slavia were winning 3-2 at their stadium in Vršovice with only minutes of injury time remaining when the match was abandoned after home fans stormed the pitch and attacked a number of Sparta players.
Under Tuesday’s ruling, Slavia received the maximum possible fine of CZK 10 million. They were also ordered to play their next four league games behind closed doors.
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05/12/2026
Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček says the Czech government will not increase this year’s budget deficit over the country’s defence commitments, Novinky.cz reported on Tuesday. Mr. Havlíček said the cabinet would instead seek out expenditures that could be classed as defence spending in projects already approved by the ministries of health, industry and, above all, transport. He did not rule out another possible approach: the placing of such projects directly beneath the Ministry of Defence.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said on Monday that the government would do everything it could to fulfil the state’s commitment, as a NATO member, to spending 2 percent of GDP on defence.
Czech president Petr Pavel and US officials criticised the government after the 2026 state budget set defence spending below 2 percent.
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05/12/2026
Officers from the Czech police’s organised crime unit made 11 arrests in connection with a raid at the Central Military Hospital in Prague on Tuesday. Those detained are suspected of obstruction of justice, fraud, accepting bribes, bribery, forging medical records and issuing false expert opinions, a prosecutor’s office representative said in a statement.
The news website Odkryto.cz said that the case centred on the falsification of medical reports and that one of those arrested was a senior consultant.
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05/12/2026
The 81st edition of the Prague Spring music festival gets underway at the Smetana Hall of the Czech capital’s Municipal House on Tuesday evening. The traditional curtain-raising composition, Bedřich Smetana’s My Country, will be performed by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra; it will be the 11th time the ensemble has opened Czechia’s most prestigious classical music event.
The Prague Spring festival will deliver a total of 41 concerts and is set to conclude on June 4.
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05/12/2026
President Petr Pavel and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš have agreed to four changes in a proposed list of new Czech ambassadors, the former said on Tuesday, adding that he would not comment on the matter further at present.
The previous government approved a list of new ambassadors but a resolution to that effect was revoked by Mr. Babiš’s cabinet in January. At that time, the minister of foreign affairs, Petr Macinka, said he would choose ambassadors in line with the current government’s priorities.
The president must put his signature to all ambassadorial appointments.
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05/12/2026
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to see similar weather.
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05/12/2026
Two players sidelined by Slavia Prague after a match against Sparta Prague that ended in turmoil have been included in the preliminary selection for Czechia’s World Cup squad. David Douděra and Tomáš Chorý were dropped from Slavia’s squad after being sent off in Saturday’s derby and have been told to find new clubs.
The Czech FA had to register the 54-man selection by Monday. The actual squad to go to the World Cup in North America will include 26 players, including three goalkeepers.
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05/12/2026
The association of environmental organisations, known as the Green Circle, has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš urging him to stop the spiral of verbal attacks against them from the Motorists’ party of the ruling coalition. In a statement released on Monday, Green Circle said the Motorists were spreading hatred in society and that their verbal aggression toward the non-profit sector and state employees was steadily intensifying.
The association cited remarks by party leader Petr Macinka, who describes environmental organisations as “green terrorists” and comments by Motorist MP and government commissioner for climate policy Filip Turek, who referred to some state employees as “parasites” that the Motorists intended to gradually “exterminate.”
Following the statements, the Czech branch of Friends of the Earth sent pre-litigation notices to both Macinka and Turek.
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05/12/2026
Bavarian Premier Markus Söder will visit Brno next week to attend the Sudeten German Congress despite an increasingly heated political debate in the Czech Republic over the event.
Söder announced the trip at a press conference in Munich following a meeting of the leadership of his Christian Social Union (CSU) party. According to the Sudeten German Association, Söder is scheduled to deliver a speech at the congress on Sunday, May 24.
From Brno, Söder will travel to Prague for talks with Czech President Petr Pavel, who invited him to Prague Castle.
The congress has sparked controversy in Czech politics. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said that instead of reconciliation, the event would reopen old wounds. His governing coalition plans to push through a parliamentary motion calling for the congress not to be held in the Czech Republic.
The Sudeten German issue remains historically sensitive in the Czech Republic because of the post-war expulsion of ethnic Germans following World War Two.
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