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03/31/2026
The Czech and Slovak governments held a joint session at the Nová Horka chateau in North Moravia on Tuesday. It was the first such meeting between the two cabinets in three years. The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, and his Slovak counterpart, Robert Fico, signed documents aimed at deepening cooperation between the two governments in different fields.
Mr. Babiš told journalists after the meeting that the current energy crisis was the most important theme. He called on Mr. Fico to lift Slovakia’s state of fuel emergency, adding that the shortage should be addressed across the region. Mr. Fico said he would do so when this became possible.
The previous Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, ended the practice of joint government sessions in 2024 over the countries’ divergent approaches to foreign policy.
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03/31/2026
Czech doctors have come out against the questioning of vaccinations by certain politicians, primarily from Freedom and Direct Democracy, Novinky.cz reported. Representatives of the coalition party recently called on the minister of health, Adam Vojtěch of ANO, to amend state strategy on Covid and flu jabs.
Members of the J. E. Purkyně medical association said on Tuesday that there was under-vaccination in Czechia, even among vulnerable groups, and sought to debunk myths in this area.
Minister Vojtěch says he is opposed to changing the current approach to inoculations.
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03/31/2026
It should be mainly bright in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 11 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to be overcast.
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03/31/2026
The State Prosecutor’s Office has requested that a fifth person held in connection with a suspected arson attack on an arms factory in the city of Pardubice be remanded in custody. The suspect was charged with membership of a terrorist group on Sunday.
In recent days a court in Pardubice remanded three of four previous detainees in custody. The other, who is an American citizen, is in pre-trial detention in Slovakia.
The alleged group behind the incident in Pardubice said that “the Earthquake Faction” had started the blaze on March 20. They said the factory had been a “production centre for Israeli weapons”, due to the operator’s “role in the Israeli genocide in Gaza”.
Carrying out a terrorist attack and membership in a terrorist group can bring sentences of up to 20 years under Czech law.
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03/31/2026
The number of births in Czechia last year – around 77,600 – was the lowest registered on the territory of the country since records began in 1785. It was the fourth year in a row that the birth rate fell, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Tuesday.
The population rose by roughly 6,300 in 2025, reaching around 10.91 million, on the back of foreign migration.
While births and weddings were down, deaths and divorces rose slightly.
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03/31/2026
A foreign national has confessed to a Molotov cocktail attack on a Russian facility in Prague last week, the Czech police said on Tuesday. The individual, who has been detained, said they had been planning the attack on the Russian Center for Science and Culture, which is near the city’s Russian Embassy, since summer last year.
Senior Czech officials condemned Thursday’s incident, which was described by a spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry as an act of barbarism.
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03/31/2026
The Czech Republic’s footballers will face Denmark on Tuesday night for a place at this year’s World Cup in North America. The Danes are considered the favourites for the playoffs final, which will take place at Sparta Prague’s stadium.
Coach Miroslav Koubek is expected to make changes to his starting line-up after an underwhelming first half against Ireland in last week’s playoffs semi-finals, which Czechia eventually won on penalties.
The Czechs last qualified for the World Cup two decades ago.
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03/31/2026
The government has dismissed Ondřej Soška, commissioner general for the Czech Republic’s participation in Expo 2025, Foreign Minister Petr Macinka told reporters on Monday.
The Czech pavilion project in Osaka faced criticism last year over insufficient external funding and rising construction costs. Macinka said the project ended with a significant loss compared to the approved budget.
Soška rejected the claims, telling the Czech News Agency that his dismissal—just one day before the end of his mandate—was politically motivated and aimed at discrediting Czechia’s successful participation at the expo under the former administration. He maintained that the original planned budget of roughly CZK 500 million had not been exceeded.
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03/31/2026
The governments of the Czech Republic and Slovakia are due to hold joint consultations for the first time in three years on Monday.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico are expected to sign a memorandum aimed at deepening cooperation between the two administrations. According to the Czech government office, the document is intended to pave the way for closer collaboration in foreign policy, the economy, defense, digitalization, tourism, and sports.
The agenda also includes discussions on boosting competitiveness, transport infrastructure, and energy security.
The last intergovernmental consultations took place in March 2023. About a year later, the Fiala administration suspended the meetings due to differing views on key foreign policy issues.
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03/30/2026
The government has added Russian national Konstantin Rogač to the Czech national sanctions list, Foreign Minister Petr Macinka announced after Monday’s cabinet meeting.
According to Minister Macinka, Rogač holds a long-term residence permit in the Czech Republic and has been involved over the past three years in arranging insurance for oil tankers operating within Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.” The fleet, used to transport Russian oil, is already subject to EU sanctions.
The Czech Republic will push for Konstantin Rogač to be placed on the EU sanctions list as well.
The Czech national sanctions list was created on the basis of the Czech Magnitsky Act approved by Parliament in 2022. It allows the government to impose sanctions on foreign entities violating human rights, supporting terrorism, or committing cybercrimes. The sanctions include asset-freezing and a ban on entering the country.
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