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11/26/2025
President Petr Pavel today received Yuliya Navalnaya, widow of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, at Prague Castle. Navalnaya has become a symbol of resistance against Vladimir Putin’s regime, and thanks to her, her husband’s legacy lives on despite the risks, the Czech president wrote on X after their meeting. In the evening, Navalnaya will take part in a discussion at the Václav Havel Library, focusing among other things on a biographical book about her husband, which Navalny wrote before his death.
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11/26/2025
Members of Parliament have been arguing for roughly seven hours about the draft state budget for next year. It was submitted by the outgoing government of Petr Fiala (ODS), and the incoming coalition of ANO, Motorists, and SPD wants to return it for revision. According to the new coalition, it lacks about 96 billion crowns needed for essential expenditures. Opposition speakers are also calling on the coalition to present its own budget. The debate has also touched on disputes over who is responsible for problems with the digitalization of the construction permitting process.
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11/26/2025
ANO leader and the country’s likely future prime minister Andrej Babiš on Wednesday presented President Petr Pavel with the proposed line-up of his future coalition cabinet of ANO, SPD and the Motorists. The president said he would begin interviewing individual candidates on Friday, but refused to accept the nomination of Filip Turek, honorary president of the Motorists, who has come under fire for controversial racist and homophobic posts on social media.
The Motorists originally nominated Turek to the post of foreign minister, but later swapped portfolios and proposed him for the post of environment minister instead. According to Babiš, the president expressed the view that he should not be a member of the government at all, citing “legal reasons”. The ANO chairman said he respects the president’s decision and would discuss the matter with the Motorists.
All three parties have selected their own nominees to their given portfolios.
The consultations with individual nominees are expected to begin on Friday and should wind up within a fortnight.
President Pavel still expects Babiš to explain publicly how he intends to resolve his conflict of interest due to ownership of the Agrofert holding before he is appointed prime minister. No specific date has been set, but according to the Castle the new government could be in place by mid-December.
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11/26/2025
In August of this year, Russian forces captured a Czech citizen who had voluntarily fought in Ukraine. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to ČTK that it is handling the case. According to Russian sources, 21-year-old Hoang Tran, who holds both Czech and Vietnamese citizenship, is facing trial in the Luhansk People’s Republic, an internationally unrecognized separatist entity in eastern Ukraine. He faces a prison sentence of seven to 15 years.
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11/26/2025
On Thursday, it will be overcast to cloudy with early morning isolated snow. Temperature highs will range from 0 to 4 °C.
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11/26/2025
Black ice will begin to form on Wednesday evening and on Thursday morning, especially in the western half of Bohemia. Meteorologists from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ) warn of this in their latest alert. Snow will fall across most of the country during the day. In some areas, particularly on the northern slopes of the Jeseníky Mountains, and in northern Bohemia, up to ten centimeters of snow may accumulate, and around 25 centimeters in the Jeseníky region. The snowfall will weaken during the evening and overnight. The weather has been complicating transport in Czechia since Monday.
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11/26/2025
To meet the EU’s new climate targets, Czechia will have to invest more than three trillion crowns in industrial transformation and decarbonization. However, the required several-fold increase in investment compared to the present is beyond the financial and technological capabilities of domestic industry. This creates a serious risk of losing competitiveness, especially for energy-intensive companies. These findings come from a study by the consultancy EGU for the Confederation of Industry of Czechia, which their representatives presented to journalists on Wednesday.
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11/26/2025
Wednesday's session of the Chamber of Deputies began with criticism from ANO vice-chair Alena Schillerová directed at the outgoing government for its management and drafting of the state budget. The main task for MPs is to decide whether to return the draft state budget to the government for revision. Schillerová was the first to speak, exercising her priority right over other speakers in the section reserved for proposing changes to the agenda. At Schillerová’s request, the Chamber also decided that it will be allowed to debate the budget and other items through the night until morning.
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11/26/2025
The chairman of the ANO movement and likely new prime minister, Andrej Babiš, expects that his government will probably have to prepare next year’s budget. He said this on Wednesday at a press conference before the start of the session at which MPs will debate the budget in its first reading. According to Babiš, developments have shown that the proposal prepared by Petr Fiala’s (ODS) cabinet cannot be fixed. ANO’s shadow finance minister, Alena Schillerová, also confirmed that the ANO–SPD–Motorists majority in the Chamber of Deputies will return the proposal to the government for revision.
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11/26/2025
The parliamentary movement Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) will oppose the holding of the Sudeten German congress in the Czech Republic, SPD MP Lucie Šafránková told journalists in the Chamber of Deputies. Representatives of the Meeting Brno festival invited the Sudeten Germans to Brno. The SPD will demand that the organization return all subsidies from the City of Brno or the South Moravian Region if public funds are used for this event.
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