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12/17/2025
The short Hurikán by Czech director Jan Saska has made the shortlist for Oscar nominations in the category of Best Animated Short Film, the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday.
Hurikán, described as a gritty romance set in Prague’s Žižkov district, won the Audience Award last year at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France. The black-and-white animated film also received high marks from members of the Czech Film Critics Association.
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12/17/2025
A district court in Zlín has remanded in custody a 25-year-old man who is charged with the attempted murder of a twelve-year-old boy from the Zlín region. The man, who was a neighbour and knew the child and his family well, abducted the boy on his way to school and held him in his cottage in a village not far from his home. Passers-by heard the boy calling for help and alerted the police. The child was missing for four days with police and hundreds of volunteers combing the countryside for him.
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12/17/2025
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš travels to Brussels on Wednesday where he will attend his first EU summit since his appointment as prime minister. Ahead of the summit, which begins on Thursday, Babiš will meet with leaders from the European Parliament faction Patriots for Europe and take part in a summit between the EU and Western Balkan countries. The meeting is intended to review relations between the two sides.
The new Czech foreign minister, Petr Macinka, is also expected to represent Czechia at Thursday’s EU summit.
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12/17/2025
At least four Czech citizens have been killed while fighting in Ukraine. Five others are reported missing and one is in captivity, the Czech Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, adding that the actual numbers may be higher.
Czech Radio reported earlier today that a volunteer from the Plzeň region was killed in Ukraine this autumn. It is not yet clear whether this case is included in the ministry’s official figures. The Foreign Ministry says it is verifying the information.
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12/17/2025
US President Donald Trump has congratulated Andrej Babiš on his appointment as Czech prime minister. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he expects close cooperation with Babiš, especially on defense, energy and illegal immigration.
“It is great to see Andrej Babiš appointed again as prime minister,” Trump wrote, adding that they achieved “great success” together during their previous terms. He also said he expects “incredible things,” including cooperation on F-35 fighter jets.
President Petr Pavel appointed Babiš’s government on Monday. Babiš returns to office after four years, having previously served as prime minister from 2017 to 2021.
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12/17/2025
The Czech Republic is ready to resume above standard relations with neighbouring Slovakia, which were interrupted by the previous government, Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka said on his first foreign trip to the former sister-state on Tuesday. Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár welcomed the commitment and the fact that, in line with tradition, the newly appointed Czech foreign minister had made his first foreign trip to Slovakia. The previous Czech government led by Petr Fiala suspended intergovernmental consultations with Slovakia in March last year, citing differences in foreign policy views, particularly over the war in Ukraine.
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12/16/2025
Taťána Malá, head of the ANO parliamentary club, has been appointed government human rights commissioner. The cabinet approved her nomination on Tuesday, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced.
Malá, 44, is serving her third term as a member of parliament and sits on several committees, including health, constitutional, and organizational affairs. She replaces Klára Šimáčková Laurenčíková, who left office with the previous government.
The South Moravian politician briefly served as justice minister in 2018 but resigned over allegations of plagiarism in her academic work.
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Czech government rejects EU migration pact and ETS 2, appoints Kmoníček as national security advisor
12/16/2025The first regular meeting of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s government took place on Tuesday, following its appointment by President Petr Pavel on Monday.
The cabinet rejected the EU migration pact and the ETS 2 carbon trading system, which covers emissions from fuel use in buildings and road transport.
Diplomat Hynek Kmoníček, formerly ambassador to Vietnam, was appointed national security advisor, coordinating state security and defense and representing the prime minister in international talks.
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12/16/2025
Czechia was represented at today’s meeting of EU environment ministers in Brussels by its ambassador to the EU, Štěpán Černý, not by Slovak Environment Minister Tomáš Taraba, as previously announced.
Official records from the EU Council and live footage from the meeting show Taraba speaking only on behalf of Slovakia, while Ambassador Černý represented the Czech side.
According to the Czech News Agency, ministers were not voting on any issues, so formal representation was not required. Diplomatic sources say Černý coordinated with Taraba ahead of the meeting.
One of the main topics discussed was the ETS2 emissions trading system, where Czechia supported a proposal put forward by Slovakia.
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12/16/2025
Wednesday will be mostly cloudy, with occasional fog. Daytime highs will range from 0 to 5 degrees Celsius.
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