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01/06/2026
Wednesday will be partly cloudy to cloudy, with isolated light snow, mainly in the mountains. Daytime temperatures will range from –7 to –3 °C, rising to around –1 °C in southern Moravia.
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01/06/2026
Czechia spent CZK 171.1 billion on defence last year, meeting its legal target of allocating at least two percent of GDP to military spending, Finance Minister Alena Schillerová announced on Tuesday.
Defence spending reached 2.02 percent of GDP, fulfilling both a domestic requirement and a key NATO benchmark. The two-percent goal had been pledged by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and was also planned by the previous government.
NATO member states agreed last year to aim for higher defence spending by 2035, a target that Babiš has previously described as unrealistic.
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01/06/2026
Russian-born American conductor Semyon Bychkov, currently chief conductor and music director of the Czech Philharmonic, will become the new music director of the Paris National Opera. The news was reported by Radio France, citing the opera house.
Bychkov has said he will step down from his role with the Czech Philharmonic in 2028, after completing his tenth season with the orchestra. He has led the Czech Philharmonic since 2018, taking over after the death of Jiří Bělohlávek.
Born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Bychkov emigrated to the United States in 1975 and later became an American citizen. Over his career, he has conducted many of the world’s leading orchestras.
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01/06/2026
President Petr Pavel will attend a meeting of the Czech State Security Council on Wednesday, the Presidential Office has announced.
The council will meet for the first time in its new composition, and one of the key topics on the agenda will be the future of the Czech ammunition initiative. Under the scheme, Czechia helps coordinate supplies of large-calibre ammunition for Ukraine.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš of the ANO party sharply criticised the initiative ahead of last year’s elections and promised to cancel it. Toward the end of the year, however, he said the project was sound in principle, adding that the main question was whether it had operated without corruption.
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01/06/2026
Czech national hockey coach Radim Rulík has included 19 players from last year’s world championship-winning team in his squad for the Winter Olympics in Milan. Rulík announced the full 25-man roster at a press conference in Prague on Tuesday.
The selection features several veterans of the gold-medal triumph in Prague, including captain Roman Červenka, who is set to appear at his fifth Olympic Games.
Six players, among them NHL stars David Pastrňák and Martin Nečas, were named earlier. The Czech team will open the Olympic tournament against Canada on February 12, followed by games against France and Switzerland.
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01/06/2026
The films Broken Voices and Father have received the most nominations, six each, at this year’s Czech Film Critics’ Awards.
Broken Voices by director Ondřej Provazník, is inspired by a real-life scandal involving a Prague girls’ choir, while Father, directed by Tereza Nvotová, tells the story of a man whose life unravels after a tragic mistake.
Close behind is Zuzana Kirchnerová’s poetic road movie Karavan, which picked up four nominations. The winners of the Czech Film Critics’ Awards will be announced on February 7.
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01/06/2026
Clean electricity production in Czechia increased last year for the first time since 2021, according to the 2025 report by the energy industry website oEnergetice.cz. Domestic power sources generated a total of 71.4 terawatt-hours of electricity, a year-on-year rise of 3.8 percent.
The growth was driven mainly by nuclear power plants, while increased output was also recorded from solar energy. According to the report, electricity generation from coal remained flat last year, but has fallen by 28 percent over the past three years. At the same time, electricity consumption is rising, while prices are declining.
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01/06/2026
Czechia recorded a foreign trade surplus of CZK 16.2 billion in November last year, according to the data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Tuesday. The surplus was down by CZK five billion compared to the same period a year earlier.
The weaker result was mainly due to a year-on-year decline in the trade surplus in motor vehicles. On the positive side, trade in chemicals helped the overall balance, as the trade deficit in this sector narrowed compared with November 2024.
Exports fell by 4.6 percent year-on-year in November to CZK 403.1 billion. Imports also declined, down 3.6 percent to CZK 386.9 billion.
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01/06/2026
The Czech tennis team has taken an early lead in its final United Cup group match against host nation Australia. Barbora Krejčíková secured the opening point in Sydney, defeating Australia’s Maya Joint in straight sets, 6–4, 6–1.
With the victory, the Czech team is now just one win away from topping Group D and earning a direct place in the quarterfinals of the mixed-team competition.
Even if the Czechs finish second in the group, a fourth win at the tournament would be enough to guarantee their progression to the knockout stage.
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01/06/2026
Finance Minister Alena Schillerová is set to present the state budget results for last year, with the deficit expected to exceed the original plan. The approved budget foresaw a shortfall of CZK 241 billion, but Schillerová has said the final figure will likely be deeper, possibly surpassing the 2024 deficit of CZK 271.4 billion. Most of the year’s budget was managed by the previous government led by Petr Fiala, while the cabinet of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, the ANO party leader, took office in mid-December. The Finance Ministry will also release preliminary data on state debt.
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