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02/11/2026
Thursday should be overcast with rain showers and daytime temperatures between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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02/11/2026
The Czech Philharmonic, led by guest conductor Jakub Hrůša, will honor former chief conductor Jiří Bělohlávek at a concert in Prague’s Rudolfinum on Wednesday evening.
Bělohlávek, who died in 2017, would have turned 80 this February.
The program will feature two works by Josef Suk: the concert overture “A Winter’s Evening Tale” and the suite from the play “Radúz and Mahulena.” Hrůša has long focused on Suk’s music and regularly performs it in the Czech Republic and abroad.
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02/11/2026
The offence of “unauthorized activity for a foreign power” will remain part of the Criminal Code. The Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a petition by a group of senators seeking to annul the provision.
The petition against it was signed by 24 senators, who argued that the wording is vague, broadly formulated and was inserted into the Criminal Code as an unconstitutional legislative rider.
The Court ruled that if democracy and the values on which it stands are attacked the democratic system must have the right to defend itself against such attacks. However, it stressed that the legislation must not restrict freedom of expression.
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02/11/2026
Czech midfielder Tomáš Souček scored his 39th Premier League goal to help West Ham secure a 1–1 draw against Manchester United on Tuesday and become the highest-scoring Czech player in the competition’s history.
Souček moved ahead of Patrik Berger, with whom he had previously shared the record. Berger scored 38 goals in 225 appearances for Liverpool, Portsmouth and Aston Villa between 1996 and 2008.
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02/11/2026
A public farewell for actress Jana Brejchová will take place on February 17 at Prague’s Lucerna Palace, her family has announced. Visitors will be able to pay their respects and sign a condolence book between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Dubbed the “Czech Bardot”, the legendary Czech actress appeared in around a hundred film and television productions, working with directors such as Vojtěch Jasný, Jiří Krejčík and Evald Schorm. She also filmed in Germany, Austria and Hungary and appeared on the covers of international magazines.
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02/11/2026
The Chamber of Deputies has started debating the government’s proposed state budget for 2026 with a planned deficit of 310 billion crowns.
In the first reading, the Chamber of Deputies will vote on the main budget parameters, including revenues, expenditures and the deficit. A lengthy debate is expected, after which the lower house is likely to approve the core figures with support from the governing coalition.
In the second reading lawmakers will be able to propose reallocations within the overall budget.
The opposition has criticized both the size of the deficit and what it describes as a breach of the law on budgetary responsibility. Finance Minister Alena Schillerová (ANO) rejects claims of a legal violation, arguing that the law applies only to budgets discussed within the standard timeframe. She has described the draft as realistic and the proposed deficit as optimal, given mandatory expenditures.
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02/11/2026
Instria, a start-up based in Liberec that prints high precision sensors directly onto machine components, has attracted the attention of the NATO Innovation Fund, the Czech News Agency has reported. The Fund has pledged to invest €1 billion (around CZK 24.5 billion) into start-ups operating in the defence sector. Instria is one of six Czech companies with which the Fund has decided to open talks.
The start-up develops printed sensor technology designed for use in extremely demanding conditions. Its sensors can be printed directly onto components of modern machinery, including aircrafts, satellites, rockets, engines, pipelines and racing cars.
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02/11/2026
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday evening. According to the French Embassy in the Czech Republic, President Macron will want to discuss continued support for Ukraine and increased defence spending in line with NATO commitments.
The meeting will likely also cover concerns over the EU's competitiveness ahead of Thursday’s informal EU summit, as well as the Czech government’s stance on the Board of Peace established by US President Donald Trump. France has declined to join the initiative; Babiš recently said Czechia is not considering such a move at the present time, adding that such a decision would have to be approved by the Czech Parliament, and should be coordinated with other EU member states.
Earlier in the day, the prime minister will visit the Gustave Roussy oncology institute in Villejuif, near Paris.
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02/10/2026
Czechia, Austria and Slovakia want this week’s informal European Union summit to address high electricity prices and consider measures to bring them down. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday after meeting his Czech and Austrian counterparts, Andrej Babiš and Christian Stocker, in Bratislava.
The three leaders agreed on a joint declaration which, according to Fico, also includes issues related to the car industry. In their joint press conference, Babiš criticised the European Commission’s original plan to ban the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines by 2035, a proposal that was softened by the Commission in December. He also repeated that trading in EU emission allowances is affected by speculation.
The Czech Prime Minister added that another shared objective of the three countries is to win additional allies for the so-called “friends of competitiveness” group, with EU competitiveness expected to be one of the main topics at Thursday’s informal summit of EU leaders.
The Bratislava talks were preceded by a meeting between Babiš and Stocker in Vienna, as well as separate talks between Fico and Stocker in the Slovak capital.
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02/10/2026
Czech businessman Daniel Křetínský has been unusually active over the past year and is playing an increasingly important role in European business, the British journal The Economist wrote last week. It noted that exactly a year ago, Křetínský strengthened his position in the German group Metro and acquired Britain’s Royal Mail.
Listing his recent activity, the article included that Křetínský's EP is set to become the main shareholder in France’s TotalEnergies, and that the group has acquired a 28.5% stake in French electronics retailer Fnac Darty. Křetínský also owns a 50% stake in Czech Media Invest, which controls several French media outlets as well as Czech News Center (CNC), one of the Czech Republic’s largest media groups.
In an interview with The Economist, Křetínský said Europe’s efforts to decarbonise had, in his view, failed and damaged European industry. He warned against high taxes and excessive bureaucracy, which he said were discouraging capital and talent.
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