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05/27/2026
Czech players Vít Kopřiva and Kateřina Siniaková advanced to the second round of the French Open on Tuesday, while 12th seed Linda Nosková was knocked out.
Kopřiva defeated 30th-seeded Frenchman Corentin Moutet 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 and will next face Spain’s Martín Landaluce.
Siniaková overcame Switzerland’s Simona Waltert 6-4, 7-6 and will play Canada’s Victoria Mboko in the next round after Mboko defeated Czech player Nikola Bartůňková 6-1, 6-2.
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05/26/2026
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš says he has resolved his conflict of interest issues related to his assets well beyond the requirements of both Czech and European law.
In a statement to the Czech News Agency, Babiš said he no longer owns the Agrofert holding and will derive no benefit from it. He argued that the European Commission is obliged to respond to complaints filed by the Czech opposition and is therefore seeking further clarification from Czech authorities. He added that he expects the matter to be closed once the Czech side provides its response.
The issue resurfaced after Czech Radio reported that the Commission had found the Czech authorities’ previous response insufficient regarding questions over Babiš’s alleged conflict of interest.
According to the news outlet, the Commission stated in its letter that no subsidies linked to companies associated with Babiš would be reimbursed until the conflict of interest issue is fully resolved.
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05/26/2026
The number of countries contributing to the Czech-led ammunition initiative for Ukraine has dropped by half, from 18 last year to nine currently, according to the Financial Times, citing Czech President Petr Pavel.
Pavel said the initiative remains operational, but the decline in contributors presents new challenges. As a result, ammunition deliveries this year could fall by as much as 50 percent compared with 2025, according to a statement from the Czech Defence Ministry reported by Reuters.
The ministry told Reuters that contracts have been secured for the delivery of around one million large-calibre rounds this year. The figure also includes smaller programs and direct purchases from Ukraine. The total could still increase if the initiative secures additional funding.
The ministry said the program has received roughly €1 billion (CZK 24 billion) this year. Since its launch in 2024, the initiative had secured €4.5 billion in funding by October last year.
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05/26/2026
Small states are not seeking a world without great powers, but one in which major powers accept the limits of their influence, Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday.
Macinka said the world is suffering from a loss of communication and stressed the value of the Security Council as a forum where rival powers can still engage in dialogue.
“History teaches us that major conflicts do not begin only with aggression. They also begin with miscalculation, the breakdown of communication, and the belief that there is no longer any need to listen to others,” he said, adding that major powers need to hear how the rest of the world perceives their actions.
Macinka said the United Nations was not created to build a perfect world, but to prevent the worst outcomes. Although its structures reflect the realities of 1945 rather than today’s world, he said the UN remains essential because it gives smaller states a platform to make their voices heard.
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05/26/2026
The European Commission has asked the Czech government for information on arrangements designed to prevent conflicts of interest over EU subsidies linked to companies in the business empire of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, a Commission spokesperson said on Tuesday. Czech Radio and the Czech news site Seznam Zpravy earlier reported that the Commission was seeking further legal analysis of a plan to shift Babiš' shares in the Agrofert conglomerate into a special trust. According to Czech Radio the EC also wants assurances that companies linked to Babiš but held outside the trust - are not receiving EU funds.
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05/26/2026
Wednesday is expected to be clear to partly cloudy and mostly dry, with only a few scattered showers in Moravia, and day temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius.
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05/26/2026
The skull of Saint Zdislava which was stolen and recovered earlier this month, will be displayed at the basilica in Jablonné v Podještědí during this Saturday’s pilgrimage before being returned to its tomb Prague Archbishop Stanislav Přibyl told journalists. He said the Catholic Church had decided not to leave the scared relic on display.
The relic was stolen from the basilica on May 12 by a man who said he objected to the skull having been separated from the saint’s body. He encased it in concrete and planned to throw it in the river as a form of burial. Police apprehended him before he could do so and restorers were able to extract the skull from the concrete without serious damage.
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05/26/2026
Richard Falbr, a prominent politician of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) and a post-1989 founder of the modern Czech trade union movement, has died at the age of 85, Novinky.cz reported.
Falbr spent eight years at the helm of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (ČMKOS), serving as its chairman from 1994. He later represented the Most region as a senator for several years before rounding off his political career with a long tenure in the European Parliament.
Running under the Social Democrats’ banner, he was elected to the European Parliament in the Czech Republic’s first European elections in 2004. He successfully defended his mandate five years later.
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05/26/2026
As of July 1, general practitioners in the Czech Republic will be authorised to prescribe a much higher number of specialized drugs, such as those used to treat diabetes, heart failure and chronic kidney disease, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch (ANO) announced on X.
The change will affect more than 1,000 medicines that currently require specialist prescriptions.
According to Vojtěch, the amendment is intended to reduce administrative burdens and help patients, particularly those with chronic illnesses, to access medication more quickly and conveniently.
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05/26/2026
The Green Circle association of environmental organisations has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO), calling on him to take immediate action against what it describes as increasingly aggressive and dehumanising rhetoric from the Motorists of the ruling coalition.
The letter, signed among others by People in Need director Šimon Pánek and Hnutí DUHA programme director Jiří Koželouh, specifically criticises statements by Motorists party leader and Foreign Minister Petr Macinka and government commissioner for climate policy and the Green Deal Filip Turek.
In recent weeks, Macinka labelled environmental groups “green terrorists” and described Hnutí DUHA as a “terrorist organisation”. The immediate trigger for the letter was Turek’s recent claim that by obstructing the construction of the Nové Heřminovy dam green activists had a share of the blame for lives lost during the floods.
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