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04/01/2026
The Czech Constitutional Court has ruled that part of a treaty signed with the Vatican in 2024 is inconsistent with the country’s constitutional order, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday. Ratification of the agreement, known as a concordat, may not take place until the conflict is resolved.
A motion to review the document was filed by a group of senators, while President Petr Pavel, whose signature is required for ratification, also expressed doubts.
In contrast, members of the erstwhile government of PM Petr Fiala, who signed the treaty, have defended it, as has the Czech Bishops’ Conference.
Many EU members states have such agreements with the Holy See.
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04/01/2026
The Czech Republic’s footballers have qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 20 years after overcoming Denmark in their playoff final in Prague on Tuesday night. The Czechs twice went ahead and twice saw the visitors equalise before they eventually won the match at Sparta Prague’s stadium on penalties, just as they had against Ireland in a playoffs semi-final.
Coach Miroslav Koubek’s team will be in a group with Mexico, South Africa and South Korea at the World Cup, which starts in North America in June.
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03/31/2026
An investment by Germany’s Mercedes-Benz Trucks, part of the Daimler Truck Group, in the city of Cheb will amount to CZK 7 to 8 billion in the initial phase, the Czech minister of industry and trade, Karel Havlíček, said on Tuesday.
Mr. Havlíček said it was one of the most significant investments that had been made in Czechia. He said it would bring CZK 31 billion into the country’s GDP, with another CZK 14 billion going to the state coffers.
The new plant will have a capacity of around 25,000 vehicles a year and has not been supported by investment incentives. Construction is due to start in 2027, with operations to begin three years later.
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03/31/2026
Czechia's president, Petr Pavel, has called on the country to reassess relations with Hungary, and what information it shares with Budapest. He made the comment to Czech Television after revelations of communications between the Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, Peter Szijjarto, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. Audio released on Tuesday evidently captured Mr. Szijjarto telling Mr. Lavrov he would do his utmost to block EU sanctions against Moscow.
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03/31/2026
The Czech and Slovak governments held a joint session at the Nová Horka chateau in North Moravia on Tuesday. It was the first such meeting between the two cabinets in three years. The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, and his Slovak counterpart, Robert Fico, signed documents aimed at deepening cooperation between the two governments in different fields.
Mr. Babiš told journalists after the meeting that the current energy crisis was the most important theme. He called on Mr. Fico to lift Slovakia’s state of fuel emergency, adding that the shortage should be addressed across the region. Mr. Fico said he would do so when this became possible.
The previous Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, ended the practice of joint government sessions in 2024 over the countries’ divergent approaches to foreign policy.
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03/31/2026
Czech doctors have come out against the questioning of vaccinations by certain politicians, primarily from Freedom and Direct Democracy, Novinky.cz reported. Representatives of the coalition party recently called on the minister of health, Adam Vojtěch of ANO, to amend state strategy on Covid and flu jabs.
Members of the J. E. Purkyně medical association said on Tuesday that there was under-vaccination in Czechia, even among vulnerable groups, and sought to debunk myths in this area.
Minister Vojtěch says he is opposed to changing the current approach to inoculations.
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03/31/2026
It should be mainly bright in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 11 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to be overcast.
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03/31/2026
The State Prosecutor’s Office has requested that a fifth person held in connection with a suspected arson attack on an arms factory in the city of Pardubice be remanded in custody. The suspect was charged with membership of a terrorist group on Sunday.
In recent days a court in Pardubice remanded three of four previous detainees in custody. The other, who is an American citizen, is in pre-trial detention in Slovakia.
The alleged group behind the incident in Pardubice said that “the Earthquake Faction” had started the blaze on March 20. They said the factory had been a “production centre for Israeli weapons”, due to the operator’s “role in the Israeli genocide in Gaza”.
Carrying out a terrorist attack and membership in a terrorist group can bring sentences of up to 20 years under Czech law.
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03/31/2026
The number of births in Czechia last year – around 77,600 – was the lowest registered on the territory of the country since records began in 1785. It was the fourth year in a row that the birth rate fell, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Tuesday.
The population rose by roughly 6,300 in 2025, reaching around 10.91 million, on the back of foreign migration.
While births and weddings were down, deaths and divorces rose slightly.
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03/31/2026
A foreign national has confessed to a Molotov cocktail attack on a Russian facility in Prague last week, the Czech police said on Tuesday. The individual, who has been detained, said they had been planning the attack on the Russian Center for Science and Culture, which is near the city’s Russian Embassy, since summer last year.
Senior Czech officials condemned Thursday’s incident, which was described by a spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry as an act of barbarism.
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