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08/05/2026
The Czech Foreign Ministry is reshaping its diplomatic network to better reflect the country's current priorities. It will close its Consulate General in Hong Kong on September 30, 2026, and open a new Consulate General in Miami the following day.
The ministry is also preparing to open an embassy in Muscat, restore its diplomatic presence in Caracas and strengthen consular capacity in Dubai.
The closure of the Hong Kong consulate is primarily driven by economic reasons, with consular and visa services to be transferred to the Czech Embassy in Beijing. The ministry stressed that the move does not signal any change in the Czech Republic's policy towards Hong Kong or Macau.
The new consulate in Miami is intended to strengthen the Czech presence in a fast-growing region of the United States, support trade and investment, and improve services for Czech citizens. In the future, it is also expected to oversee a planned office in Austin, Texas.
The ministry is also reviewing the operation of other diplomatic missions, including those in Düsseldorf, Yangon, Luxembourg and Singapore, as part of an effort to shift resources to locations that better serve Czech interests.
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08/05/2026
Organisers of the reconstruction of Prague's upper Wenceslas Square on Wednesday buried a time capsule beneath the future tramline for generations to come. The capsule contains dozens of items, including contemporary newspapers, coins, messages, photographs, architectural plans and a cobblestone from the square's original paving.
The capsule was prepared by the Association of Prague's New Town, which has long been involved in the square's revitalisation. Construction of the new tramline began in June last year and is due to be completed in June 2027.
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08/05/2026
Nearly three-quarters of Czechs consider climate change a serious issue, with 45 percent saying it requires urgent action, according to an exclusive NMS poll for Novinky.cz. A majority of supporters of every political party except the governing Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) agree that climate change is a problem.
The survey found that nine in ten respondents acknowledge climate change as a real issue, while only seven percent deny it. According to NMS political analyst Tereza Friedrichová, the debate has shifted from whether climate change exists to how urgent it is and who should address it.
The highest share of climate change sceptics, 14 percent, was found among SPD voters, with another 29 percent describing it as a minor or exaggerated problem. Supporters of the Motorists party ranked second in climate scepticism.
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08/05/2026
Ukrainian authorities have charged ten people with fraud and money laundering over a cryptocurrency investment scam that allegedly defrauded Czech victims of tens of millions of crowns, the Czech News Agency reported citing the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office. The Moravian-Silesian regional police, which assisted in the investigation, confirmed the report. According to investigators, the suspects targeted Czechs by phone from October 2024 until the present, luring them into fake cryptocurrency investments.
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08/05/2026
Thursday should bring partly cloudy skies and rain in the afternoon hours. Day temperatures between 26 and 31 degrees Celsius.
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08/05/2026
Record-breaking heat did not deter hundreds of people from climbing Lysá Hora, the highest peak in the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy Mountains, on Tuesday.
Families with children and senior hikers were among those reaching the summit, where the temperature climbed to 29.8 degrees Celsius — the highest ever recorded there since measurements began in 1934, according to meteorologist Petr Drobek of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.
Rescue services nevertheless urged people to reconsider strenuous hiking during the current spell of extreme heat.
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08/05/2026
The deadline for submitting candidate lists for October's municipal and Senate elections expired on Tuesday afternoon.
Political parties, movements, coalitions and independent candidates seeking seats in local councils or the Senate had until 4 p.m. to file their nominations with the relevant municipal authorities.
Electoral authorities will now verify that candidate lists meet all legal requirements and, if necessary, ask candidates to correct any deficiencies. Final registration decisions are due by August 21 for Senate candidates and August 22 for municipal candidates.
The nationwide municipal elections will be held on October 9–10, alongside the first round of Senate elections in 27 constituencies.
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08/05/2026
Police are continuing the search for two young men who went missing at Lake Most after a powerful storm swept through the region on Tuesday. The men have been unaccounted for since then. During the storm, several people in the lake reportedly struggled to reach the shore. Divers, river police and firefighters are taking part in the search.
Clean up work is underway in many parts of north Bohemia, where heavy thunderstorms uprooted trees and damaged roofs on Tuesday evening. The fallen trees disrupted traffic on local roads and blocked several railway lines across the region. Some 1,600 households in the Česká Lípa region were still without electricity on Wednesday morning. Firefighters responded to around 140 storm-related incidents in the wake of the heat storms.
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08/05/2026
The Czech Health Ministry has introduced an exceptional measure to address a shortage of tamoxifen, a key breast cancer medication.
The State Institute for Drug Control (SÚKL) said the ministry had launched a special treatment program temporarily allowing pharmacies to prepare 10 mg and 20 mg tamoxifen medicines using selected unregistered products.
In practice, pharmacists will be able to dispense tamoxifen medicines that are not registered in the Czech Republic, provided they are approved in another European Union member state. According to SÚKL, only 81 packs of tamoxifen-containing medicines were available as of Wednesday morning.
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08/05/2026
Former first lady Dagmar Havlová and the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 say they intend to preserve the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize after the Václav Havel Library announced it was withdrawing from its organization.
Havlová said the foundation aims to present the €60,000 award again this year and is in talks with all relevant partners. The library said it was pulling out because it can no longer use Václav Havel's name in the project's title after Havlová revoked her consent in June.
Established after Havel's death in 2011, the prize honors outstanding contributions to human rights in Europe and beyond. Since 2013, it has been awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Václav Havel Library and the Charter 77 Foundation.
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