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05/26/2026
The Czech Senate will commemorate the 30th anniversary of its establishment with a ceremonial gathering of current and former members on Tuesday evening.
The gathering will be addressed by President Petr Pavel. Former Senate speakers will also receive symbolic keys to the upper chamber.
The 81-member Senate was formally established in 1996, with its inaugural session held on December 18, 30 years ago.
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05/26/2026
Czech tennis player Karolína Muchová booked her place in the second round of the French Open after defeating Russia’s Anastasia Zakharova 7-5, 6-2 at Roland Garros on Tuesday.
The tournament’s 10th seed will next face Kamilla Rakhimova of Uzbekistan.
By contrast, 12th-seeded Jiří Lehečka suffered an early exit, losing in straight sets to Spain’s world number 89 Pablo Carreño Busta, 3-6, 6-7, 3-6.
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05/25/2026
The Czech hockey team lost to Norway 1–4 in their sixth game at the World Championship in Fribourg, suffering their second defeat in Group B. They can no longer win the group, as today’s opponent pushed them down to third place. Norway secured a spot in the quarterfinals and will play there for the first time in 14 years.
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05/25/2026
President Petr Pavel is the only potential candidate for the next head of state who could receive more than half of the votes. This follows from the results of a survey conducted at the turn of April and May, which was published today on the STEM/MARK agency’s website. According to the survey, 53 percent of people in the Czech Republic would vote or might vote for Pavel, followed by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) with 44 percent.
Among other figures presented to respondents by STEM/MARK, actor and presenter Marek Eben would receive 40 percent, Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlíček (ANO) 35 percent, and Minister of Finance Alena Schillerová (ANO) 30 percent.
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05/25/2026
The television and radio license fee would no longer be paid by households of seniors over 75 years old, or by entrepreneurs and companies with up to 50 employees instead of the current threshold of 24 employees. The extension of exemptions from the fee was proposed in an amendment by a group of coalition MPs led by Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Patrik Nacher (ANO). According to the estimate of the authors, Czech Television and Czech Radio would lose hundreds of millions of crowns in revenue.
According to former Minister of Culture Martin Baxa (ODS), this is another blow against independent public service media.
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05/25/2026
The new Apostolic Nuncio to the Czech Republic is Archbishop Eugene Martin Nugent, who was born in Ireland. After his appointment by Pope Leo XIV, his name was announced today at noon by the Vatican press office, according to Monika Klimentová, spokesperson for the Czech Bishops’ Conference, told ČTK.
The papal nuncio represents the Vatican in the Czech Republic. The outgoing nuncio, Jude Thaddeus Okolo, who is being replaced by the 67-year-old Nugent, became the Vatican’s ambassador to Haiti after his appointment by the Pope this year.
Archbishop Eugene Martin Nugent was born on October 21, 1958, in County Clare in western Ireland. He has most recently served as the Holy See’s envoy to Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain. He is an archbishop in the Irish diocese of Domnach Sechnaill.
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05/25/2026
On Tuesday it should be clear or mostly clear. Maximum daytime temperatures will be 26°C to 30°C, and in lowland areas of Bohemia occasionally up to 31°C.
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05/25/2026
Fuel price regulation will continue in the Czech Republic in June as well. The proposal from the Ministry of Finance was approved today by the government, Finance Minister Alena Schillerová (ANO) announced on the social network X. The Czech Republic introduced daily adjustments of price caps for diesel and petrol in the first half of April in response to rising oil prices due to the conflict in the Middle East.
The Ministry of Finance sets price caps based on a rolling three-day average of wholesale prices. Petrol station operators may apply a maximum margin of three Czech crowns per liter of fuel.
At the same time, due to rising fuel prices, the government decided in April to temporarily reduce the excise tax on diesel from the original 9.95 CZK per liter to 8.011 CZK per liter. The excise tax on petrol has not changed and remains at 12.84 CZK per liter.
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05/25/2026
According to the head of the Security Information Service Michal Koudelka, Europe is not facing the threat of a massive Russian attack like the one against Ukraine. He considers it more likely that one member state of the NATO, probably in the Baltic region, could be attacked in order to test the alliance’s response.
“It is necessary to unequivocally declare unity and determination to defend ourselves, which is the only way to deter the Russian aggressor from this very dangerous adventure,” Koudelka said today at a security conference in the Chamber of Deputies, adding that Western countries should neither place too much trust in Russian promises nor give in excessively to Russian threats. “We should assess everything with courage and a cool head,” the head of the counterintelligence service said.
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05/25/2026
Funds intended to strengthen the resilience and preparedness of key domestic hospitals for possible threats contributed to this goal only to a limited extent. According to auditors, some recipients spent the money inefficiently and ineffectively. Hospitals also purchased equipment they did not need or for which they did not have enough qualified staff. This was revealed by the Czech Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) during an audit of funding aimed at strengthening the resilience of the core network of healthcare providers. Auditors examined the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic, and selected hospitals.
The ministries provided nearly 19 billion Czech crowns for the projects. The funds came from the European investment instrument REACT-EU, which the Czech Republic received between 2020 and 2023 to support recovery from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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