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10/29/2026
The Temelín nuclear power plant is preparing to replace its tap-changing transformers, which supply electricity for the plant’s own operations. The new equipment is being manufactured and is due to replace the existing transformers over the next two years.
The investment, worth hundreds of millions of crowns, will improve the reliability of power supplies to the plant’s technological systems and represents another step towards extending its long-term operation, plant spokesman Marek Sviták told journalists.
Temelín’s operating life is expected to be extended to 80 years, until 2080 and 2082 for its two units, respectively.
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10/29/2026
Czech tennis player Kateřina Siniaková has withdrawn from the Guangzhou tournament ahead of her second-round match.
The world’s top-ranked doubles player, who won her first singles title in three years in Osaka on Sunday, appeared tired in her opening match in Guangzhou on Wednesday after travelling from Japan, but still defeated Thailand’s Lanlana Tararudee, the tournament’s third seed, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4.
During the match, she requested medical attention several times for problems with her shoulder and neck.
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10/29/2026
Europe's dependence on foreign digital technologies has increased in recent years, while China and the United States have significantly reduced their reliance on foreign technology, according to an analysis by the Centre for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn.
The analysis found that the average digital dependence of European countries rose by 0.5 percentage points between 2010 and 2023, reaching 0.69.
The Czech Republic ranked 13th among the countries studied, with a score of 0.62, ahead of countries such as Estonia, Germany and Singapore.
Of the 16 European countries included in the analysis, Ireland ranked highest, coming second overall behind the United States, with a score of 0.40.
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10/29/2026
Police have charged two people over last year's train accident involving toxic benzene in Hustopeče nad Bečvou in the Přerov region, a police spokeswoman said. They are being prosecuted for negligent endangerment of the public and environmental damage for which they could face up to eight years in prison.
The police have not released further details about the suspects. According to information obtained by the Czech News Agency, both are train drivers.
The overall damage caused by the accident has so far been estimated at around 400 million crowns,
The police have filed the charges 20 months after the accident, following an extensive investigation.
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10/29/2026
Czech carmaker Škoda Auto increased its operating profit by 7.4 percent year-on-year to EUR 1.92 billion (CZK 46.8 billion) in the first three quarters of 2026, its parent group Volkswagen said in an interim report published on Thursday. Škoda Auto’s sales increased by 3.5 percent to EUR 23.13 billion in the same period.
Škoda Auto operates three production plants in Czechia and also has production facilities in China, India, Slovakia and other states.
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10/29/2026
The Czech and Hungarian governments are holding their first joint session at Prague’s Kramář Villa. Prime Ministers Andrej Babiš and Péter Magyar are holding one-on-one talks on the side-lines of the intergovernmental consultations, while other ministers attending the meeting are also holding talks with their counterparts.
According to the Office of the Government, the talks are focussing mainly on competitiveness, energy security, migration, the EU budget and the bloc’s enlargement.
The Czech government also holds joint meetings with the Slovak, Polish and Israeli cabinets.
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10/28/2026
President Petr Pavel bestowed the Order of the White Lion, the highest Czech state honour, on four individuals at a ceremony at Prague Castle on Wednesday night. Gymnast Věra Čáslavská and film director Miloš Forman received the honour posthumously, while it also went to actress Iva Janžurová and Helena Illnerová, a former president of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
President Pavel handed out a total of 51 honours in the ceremony, which represented the culmination of this year's Czechoslovak Independence Day.
He awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the second-highest state honour, posthumously to a former speaker of the Senate, Jaroslav Kubera; the Czechoslovak diplomat Vladimír Vochoč; the dissident and first post-1989 foreign minister Jiří Dienstbier; and the historian, dissident and diplomat Jaroslav Šedivý.
The Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was also awarded in memoriam to Eliška Wagnerová, a former senator, president of the Supreme Court and vice-president of the Constitutional Court. Pavel also honoured social worker and human rights activist Elena Gorolová, who the Office of the President said had made a significant contribution to securing compensation for women who were unlawfully sterilised. The seventh recipient of the second-highest honour was Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, one of the children saved from the Nazis by Nicholas Winton, who officials said had played a key role in spreading his legacy, particularly among young people.
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10/28/2026
President Petr Pavel and his Finnish counterpart, Alexander Stubb, have discussed a call the latter and the prime minister of Norway made to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. In a phone conversation on Wednesday Mr. Pavel and Mr. Stubb also spoke about the outlook for a common European position on potential peace negotiations pertaining to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
In a statement on social media, the Czech president’s office said the outcome of any peace talks would have to represent a credible guarantee of peace for Ukraine and for Europe.
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10/28/2026
The Student Solidarity Committee, which brings together schools across Czechia, has called a strike on November 3, representatives announced in Brno on Wednesday at a protest against planned changes to the funding of Czech Television and Czech Radio.
Staff at the two public broadcasters earlier declared a strike on the same day against plans to abolish the current license fee system and bring them under the state budget. This will lead to lower budgets and critics say could facilitate political interference.
The Student Solidarity Committee called on universities, schools and other bodies to join their strike.
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10/28/2026
President Petr Pavel promoted Chief of the General Staff Miroslav Hlaváč to the rank of army general, the highest rank in the Czech Army, on Wednesday, which is Czechoslovak Independence Day.
The head of state also promoted Tomáš Hůlka, director general of the Prison Service, to the rank of lieutenant-general, thereby granting him the highest rank awarded within the security forces. In total, Mr. Pavel promoted 16 officers to mark the anniversary of the founding of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, twice as many as a year earlier.
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