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03/08/2026
The ANO party of Prime Minister Andrej Babis would have come first in elections in February with 34.5 percent of the vote, suggests a poll conducted by the Kantar agency for Czech Television published on Sunday. The Mayors and Independents would have come second on 15.5 percent, ahead of another opposition party, the Civic Democrats, who headed the last government, on 14.5 percent.
Coalition parties Freedom and Direct Democracy and the Motorists would have gained 6.5 percent and 5 percent, respectively. The Pirates enjoyed 9 percent support last month. Meanwhile a new party named Our Czechia would have got 3.5 percent and thus failed to reach the threshold of 5 percent.
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03/08/2026
Three years after his inauguration, the Czech president, Petr Pavel, enjoys the trust of 57 percent of the nation, suggests a poll by the STEM agency published by iRozhlas.cz on Sunday. His approval rating stood at 60 percent months after he took office; it has since fallen but has remained above 50 percent throughout his term, the news site said.
The level of trust in the head of state is, the poll indicates, higher than a year ago, which analysts attribute to the engaged role Mr. Pavel played in appointing the current government. At the same time, almost half of those surveyed said he was overly interfering in the political system.
The president, who has two years of his mandate remaining, enjoys most support among young people.
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03/08/2026
The Czech government is set to ignore US calls to increase spending on defence from the announced CZK 155 billion, which amounts to 1.73 percent of GDP, Czech Television reported. The heads of all three coalition parties confirmed this ahead of a final vote on the 2026 state budget planned for next Wednesday.
Speaking at a security conference on Thursday, the US ambassador to Prague, Nicholas Merrick, said the amount Czechia planned to spend on defence would leave it far below its commitments from a NATO summit in the Hague last year (5 percent of GDP), and even below a pledge from another one in Cardiff in 2014 (2 percent).
The government headed by Andrej Babiš says there is no money to increase defence spending as it must fulfil other budgetary priorities.
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03/08/2026
Monday should be mainly overcast in Czechia, with an average high temperature of 14 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to also be cloudy, with sunshine due later in the week.
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03/08/2026
Dust from the Sahara Desert has appeared over Czechia and should affect the country’s weather for a number of days, the Czech Institute of Hydro-Meteorology said. The sky should be duller and less blue, while sunrises and sunsets will be more colourful.
This is not a new phenomenon. In 2024 a smog alarm was even declared in Czechia due to the high concentration of Saharan dust in the air, while it last appeared in the country at the end of last month.
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03/07/2026
Olympic champion Zuzana Maděrová snowboarder came second in the parallel slalom at a World Cup event in the Czech resort of Špindlerův Mlýn on Saturday. The Czech, who is 22, had been in the lead before a mistake before the finish line allowed Japan’s Tsubaki Miki to win.
Maděrová has been on the podium seven times at World Cup meetings, but has never come first. She is fifth in the World Cup standings.
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03/07/2026
The head of coalition party Freedom and Direct Democracy, Tomio Okamura, says defence spending of 2 percent this year will suffice to guarantee an effective army. Speaking in an interview for news outlet Novinky.cz published on Saturday, Mr. Okamura said there was no money available to increase expenditure on defence.
The government headed by Andrej Babiš of ANO is cutting spending on defence in 2026, despite commitments to NATO to raise such outgoings markedly.
In response to a question as to whether military spending of 2 percent would allow the country to defend itself against Russia Mr. Okamura asked why that country would attack Czechia.
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03/07/2026
Two Smartwings planes landed in Prague in the course of Friday night, carrying about 380 people from Dubai. One was a special repatriation flight while the other was a regular flight, said a spokesperson for the airline. Many Czechs have got stuck in the Middle East following the outbreak of conflict in the region.
An Emirates plane from Dubai also arrived in the Czech capital before midnight, according to Prague airport.
More planes from the Middle East are due to arrive in Prague in the course of the day and on Saturday night.
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03/07/2026
Czechia is preparing a memorandum on cooperation with of Texas, the news website iRozhlas.cz reported on Saturday, describing the US state as a bastion of the Republican Party.
It is the first time the Prague government has established such a formal partnership with an individual American state, a spokesperson for the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The ministry, which is headed by Petr Macinka of the right-wing Motorists party, has played a large role in the drafting of the memorandum.
The decision to build a partnership with Texas stems from the historical roots it shares with the Czech lands, the ministry spokesperson said. The state is home to the largest group of Americans claiming Czech ancestry and the original Texas constitution was written in Czech, among other languages.
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03/07/2026
Despite a frosty morning, temperature records for March 6 were broken in several places in Czechia on Friday. New highs were seen in six of the country’s 170 weather stations keeping records for at least 30 years, meteorologists said.
The warmest temperature, 17.5 C, was registered at Strážnice in the Hodonín region, though this value was not counted among Friday’s records.
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