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10/23/2026
Czech President Petr Pavel is one of five politicians being considered by European leaders for the role of chief negotiator with Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending the war in Ukraine, according to The Telegraph. The paper cites diplomatic sources who said some of the potential candidates had already been approached.
Europe wants to play a more prominent role in negotiations with Russia after more than a year and a half of US-led mediation failed to produce a tangible breakthrough. Concerns have also grown that US President Donald Trump no longer represents the interests of Europe and is favouring Moscow in efforts to end the conflict.
According to The Telegraph, the other politicians under consideration are Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
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10/22/2026
The Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) has been targeted by a cyberattack, forcing it to take some of its systems offline. The university said on Thursday that it had managed to stop the attack and was working to resolve the problem and restore its services.
According to CTU, the incident is linked to a global wave of attacks targeting websites that use the PHP programming language, following the disclosure of critical security vulnerabilities.
The Czech Government Office temporarily took its website offline on Wednesday because of the same vulnerabilities.
CTU said some of its systems would remain unavailable until a solution was found. The university has not specified which services have been affected or when they are expected to be restored.
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10/22/2026
Police are investigating a violent road-rage attack on the D6 motorway, west of Prague, where a driver first forced a car carrying a young woman and her 8-year-old daughter to brake sharply before opening the driver’s door and violently assaulting her for respecting the lowered speed limit and slowing him down.
When the woman told him that the incident was being recorded by a dashboard camera, which her daughter was holding at the time, he tried to snatch the device. The girl managed to hide it under the seat, preserving crucial footage for the police.
Investigators are handling the case under expedited proceedings on suspicion of attempted bodily harm, disorderly conduct and theft.
A police spokesperson said both the woman and her daughter were in a state of shock.
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10/22/2026
The Czech Republic is breaching EU law by allowing criminal suspects to be questioned without a lawyer if their defence counsel fails to arrive within 48 hours of their arrest, the European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday, upholding a complaint brought by the European Commission.
The court found a similar breach in Hungary, where suspects can be questioned without a lawyer if their counsel fails to arrive within two hours of being notified of the arrest. Czech law sets the deadline at 48 hours after an arrest and also permits questioning if a lawyer is unavailable.
The court did not impose a fine on the Czech Republic. However, if the country fails to comply with the ruling, the European Commission can refer the case back to the court and propose financial penalties.
The Commission first raised concerns about the Czech legislation’s compliance with the relevant EU directive in 2021. The Justice Ministry rejected its objections at the time.
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10/22/2026
Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka on Thursday presented the Gratias Agit Awards honouring individuals and organisations for promoting the Czech Republic abroad. The 13 laureates include Czech-born Canadian scientist Václav Smil, an internationally recognised expert on energy, technology and the environment and Tomáš Cihlář, a Czech virologist and senior executive at US pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences who contributed to the development of remdesivir and the HIV-prevention drug lenacapavir.
The award also went to pianist Ivo Kahánek, director of the Prague Conservatory and a BBC Music Magazine Award winner; British historian Tom Doležal, who documents the wartime service of Czechoslovak airmen in the Royal Air Force; and Geraldine Anna Manolas, head of the British Memorial Association for Free Czechoslovak Veterans.
Among this year's recipients was also game developer Daniel Vávra, creator of the 2002 cult classic Mafia and the Kingdom Come: Deliverance series.
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10/22/2026
A former Czechoslovak communist secret police officer who systematically persecuted Anna Magdalena Schwarzová, one of the most prominent figures in the country’s Catholic dissent, has received a suspended prison sentence, Czech Radio reported.
The Prague 6 District Court found Stanislav Sauer guilty this month of abuse of office. He was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for a probationary period of three years.
Sauer had Schwarzová, who supported people persecuted by the communist regime, placed under surveillance and wiretapped, and proposed repressive measures against her.
In recognition of her commitment to defending human rights, Anna Magdalena Schwarzová was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in 2011.
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10/22/2026
Friday should be partly cloudy to overcast with daytime highs between 11 and 15 degrees Celsius.
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10/22/2026
The United States and Russia do not take Europe seriously because they see how divided it is and how slowly it makes decisions. Europe must therefore change to avoid becoming irrelevant, President Petr Pavel told Germany’s Bild.
Pavel, who is on a two-day visit to Germany, said Europe needed to establish its own negotiating position and appoint a person or group of people to represent it at talks on ending the war in Ukraine. He said that, in his view, Russian President Vladimir Putin could be persuaded to negotiate by the prospect of restoring economic relations and trade in the future. The condition would be a ceasefire in Ukraine, the Czech president added.
According to Mr. Pavel, one of Russia’s current aims is to trigger a new wave of refugees fleeing Ukraine for Europe.
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10/22/2026
The crisis facing the Volkswagen Group is now affecting Czech carmaker Škoda Auto. Although strong sales have made it one of the group’s key performers, the company will also have to freeze employees’ wages until 2030. Jaroslav Povšík, head of the Škoda trade unions, confirmed the plan in the union magazine Škodovácký odborář. The unions intend to oppose the move.
According to union representatives, the company’s management has for the first time openly acknowledged to employees that the situation is serious and could threaten factory workloads and jobs in the future. Škoda Auto employs around 36,500 people, including agency workers.
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10/22/2026
The Culture Ministry will not provide funding this year to the "Díky, že můžem" association to organise the traditional November 17 commemorations on Prague’s Národní třída. Culture Minister Oto Klempíř, who represents the Motorists’ party, told the iDNES news website that the organisers did not meet the conditions for receiving a grant this year. The association had applied for CZK 1 million.
The organisers have expressed disappointment with the ministry’s approach, but said that the planned program will go ahead in full this year.
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