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03/19/2026
Friday will be mostly cloudy to overcast, with a chance of isolated showers and snow above 900 metres. Daytime highs will reach 9 to 14 degrees Celsius, dropping to around 5 degrees in the mountains.
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03/19/2026
Two UH-1Y Venom helicopters from the Czech army have arrived in Poland to support NATO operations on the alliance’s eastern flank. The deployment was announced on X on Thursday by Poland’s defence minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. It is the first time the new US-made helicopters are being deployed in a foreign mission.
The aircraft are part of the latest rotation of Czech troops stationed in Poland since September 2025, after incidents in which Russian drones violated Polish airspace. The Venom helicopters replace older Mi-171Sh machines previously used by the Czech contingent.
Kosiniak-Kamysz also thanked his Czech counterpart Jaromír Zůna in a phone call on Wednesday for helping protect Poland’s eastern border. About one hundred Czech soldiers, mainly from the 22nd helicopter base in Náměšť nad Oslavou, are serving in the NATO Heli Unit guarding Polish airspace.
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03/19/2026
The European Union’s emissions trading system is harming Czech industry, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said on Thursday on arrival at the EU summit in Brussels. He called for the system to be revised as soon as possible.
Babiš said earlier predictions by the European Commission about the price of emission allowances had proved wrong. While older estimates suggested the price would now be about 26 euros, it is currently around 80 euros.
Czechia is among ten EU countries that have signed a letter calling for a thorough review of the system. Prague is proposing measures including a price cap on allowances and exemptions for energy-intensive industries.
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03/19/2026
The average gross monthly salary for teachers in Czechia rose by 5.7 percent last year to CZK 53,346, according to data from the Education Ministry, reelased on Thursday. That equals about 108 percent of the country’s average wage.
The average salary in Czechia increased by 7.2 percent last year to CZK 49,215, meaning teacher pay remains below the level set out in law. Legislation says teachers should earn on average 130 percent of the national average wage.
The average monthly salary reached about CZK 55,000 for primary school teachers and nearly CZK 59,000 for secondary school teachers, while kindergarten teachers earned the least, at around CZK 43,700.
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03/19/2026
Fourteen Czech authors are taking part in this year’s Leipzig Book Fair, one of the world’s largest literary festivals, which opened to the public on Thursday.
More than 2,000 exhibitors from 54 countries are attending the event, which runs until Sunday. Czech writers appearing at the fair include Michal Ajvaz, Jiří Hájíček, Markéta Pilátová, Marek Torčík and Vratislav Maňák.
The strong Czech presence comes ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair this autumn, where the Czech Republic will be the guest of honour at the world’s largest publishing event.
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03/19/2026
Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša received the international Artist of the Year award in Bamberg, often described as the “Oscar of classical music”, along with the Bavarian Order of Merit at a ceremony on Wednesday night.
Hrůša was named Artist of the Year in January by the jury of the International Classical Music Awards. The Bavarian Order of Merit is one of the highest honours awarded by the German state of Bavaria and has no more than two thousand living recipients.
Hrůša is among the world’s most sought-after conductors. The American magazine Musical America named him Conductor of the Year for 2026, and from the 2028–2029 season he will become chief conductor and music director of the Czech Philharmonic.
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03/19/2026
President Petr Pavel said on Thursday that Prime Minister Andrej Babiš might be better placed to explain to NATO allies why the Czech Republic is not meeting its defence spending commitments. Pavel made the comment in reaction to Babiš’s proposal that he and Foreign Minister Petr Macinka should attend the alliance’s July summit in Turkey instead of the president.
Pavel said he only learned on Wednesday about the suggestion that Babiš and Macinka should represent the Czech Republic at the meeting, which has traditionally been attended by the head of state.
Earlier on Thursday, Babiš told reporters before leaving for the EU summit in Brussels that government representatives would be better placed than the president to explain the relatively low level of Czech defence spending this year to allies, including U.S. President Donald Trump.
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03/18/2026
President Petr Pavel said that a proposed law requiring registration of NGOs cooperating with foreign partners could be a significant step toward restricting democracy. He plans to examine the draft and its impacts in detail.
The proposal, which leaked last week, has been criticized by the opposition and NGOs, who say it resembles Russian legislation. The government, however, rejects the claim.
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03/18/2026
The Czech Republic is prepared to launch investments aimed at securing oil supplies to Slovakia. According to Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlíček, the cost of establishing a fully operational reverse oil flow system could reach up to one billion Czech crowns.
Speaking after a meeting in Prague with Slovak Economy Minister Denisa Saková, Havlíček said that within two to three years, the system could transport between two and three million tonnes of oil. Representatives of companies such as Čepro and Transpetrol also attended the talks, which focused on conditions, timelines, and next steps.
Oil has not been flowing through the pipeline to Slovakia and Hungary since January 27, when it was reportedly damaged by a Russian attack, according to Kyiv.
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03/18/2026
Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council has accused the creators of the Oscar-winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin of using footage of minors without parental consent. According to AFP, this marks Moscow’s first official response to the film, which criticizes the ideological indoctrination of Russian schoolchildren. The documentary was produced as a Czech-Danish co-production.
The footage was recorded by director Pavel Talankin, who also appears in the film and previously worked as a teacher in Russia. His recordings document propaganda practices at a school in a city beyond the Ural Mountains, particularly in connection with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Before fleeing Russia in 2024, the increasingly disillusioned teacher decided to document not only state-mandated activities but also everyday life at the school and beyond.
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