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06/01/2026
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Petr Macinka, says the financial consequences of funding the Czech pavilion at the World Expo in Japan’s Osaka last year could threaten the future and funding of the Czech Centres network. He made the comment after a government meeting on Monday.
The Czech Centres, which are run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are organisationally linked to the country’s Expo 2025 project, which went considerably over budget. Mr. Macinka said his officials had recorded court disputes and pre-litigation claims involving the network amounting to tens of millions of Czech crowns.
The minister previously cut funding to the Czech Centres and the closures of some branches were announced.
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06/01/2026
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 23 degrees Celsius. More cloudy weather, and some rain, are expected on the following days.
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06/01/2026
The Czech police seized almost 86,000 products and 155 kilos of kratom in a four-week operation aimed at curbing the illegal sale of low-potency cannabis (or CBD) and kratom, the minister of the interior, Lubomír Metnar, said on Monday.
More than 11,000 products were ordered to be withdrawn from sale or destroyed, while the authorities closed three establishments and blocked 25 online stores.
Under Ministry of Health plans, those aged 21 (rather than 18) or over will be able to buy kratom from registered shops. Kratom is not illegal in Czechia but is strictly regulated.
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06/01/2026
The Czech president, Petr Pavel, says that if Czechia continuing to not have the euro as its currency slowed its development, it would be time to drop the country’s attachment to the crown. Speaking at a conference in Prague entitled reVize, Mr. Pavel said if the country had the euro it would have more say in decision-making at EU level.
Czechia committed to adopting the common European currency when it joined the EU in 2004. However, there is no deadline for doing so and successive governments, including the current one, have not been minded to take that step.
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06/01/2026
The number of parcels transported in the Czech Republic rose by 7.5 percent to 342 million in 2025, according to data released on Monday by the Czech Telecommunications Authority. By contrast mail delivered by Czech Post declined by over one-quarter to 218 million last year, while the number of standard letters it conveyed was down by 17 percent to 100 million.
The upward trend in parcel delivery has been attributed to increased online shopping. The sending of packages among individuals is also up, with the number of parcel lockers on Czech streets climbing by 29 percent last year to over 16,000.
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06/01/2026
The Czech government is planning tax breaks for “above-standard” preventative medical care, Deník N reported on Monday. Critics say, however, that this will put Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in conflict of interest, given that he owns clinics that provide screening for early signs of cancer and other diseases, the news outlet said.
At present some health services are exempt from taxation and levies up to a figure of CZK 50,000 a year. The Ministry of Health wants to do away with this limit for certain measures.
Billionaire businessman Babiš said he had put his main business, Agrofert, into trust funds. However, the European Commission has questioned whether this removed his influence over the company and urged Czech authorities to ensure that entities linked to him do not improperly receive EU-funded subsidies.
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06/01/2026
The Czech squad for the football World Cup in North America will feature the country’s youngest ever player. Sparta Prague’s Hugo Sochůrek, who turns 18 next week, scored on his debut, a warm-up game against Kosovo in Prague on Sunday that the Czechs won 2:1, and later found out that he had made the final 26-player squad for the tournament.
The opening game for the Czechs, who flew to the US on Sunday evening, will be against South Korea on June 11. They then face South Africa and co-hosts Mexico in what will be their first World Cup in two decades.
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06/01/2026
Czech tennis player Jakub Menšík has reached the round of 16 at the French Open in Paris. The 20-year-old, who is the last Czech remaining in the singles competition, beat Andrey Rublev of Russia 6-3 7-6 4-6 2-6 6-3 in a match lasting three hours and 45 minutes in the round of 16 on Sunday.
Menšík is the first Czech men’s player to reach the last eight at Roland Garros in a decade. He previously made it into a Grand Slam quarter-final at this year’s Australian Open, but was forced to withdraw.
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05/31/2026
If it turns out that subsidies paid to the Agrofert holding company were disbursed illegally, they must be recovered, says Justice Minister Jeroným Tejc. He made the comment on CNN Prima News on Sunday.
The Czech Ministry of Agriculture continues to pay out subsidies to Agrofert. However, an unnamed EU official told the Czech News Agency that due to uncertainties surrounding Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s conflict of interest, the suspension of subsidy payments also applies to agricultural funds.
Last week, the European Commission sent a letter to Czech authorities requesting information on measures taken to prevent Mr. Babiš’s conflict of interest. In February, the prime minister placed his shares in Agrofert, which he founded and ran for years, in a trust, saying that the conflict of interest had been resolved.
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05/31/2026
If a decision is made to sell the Czech state-owned company Explosia, it would be best to do so this year or in 2027, says Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlíček.
Speaking on a Sunday online show hosted by journalist Václav Moravec, Mr. Havlíček said there were currently six potential buyers interested in acquiring the manufacturer of explosives and propellants, which is based in Pardubice.
Mr. Havlíček said if the sale went ahead the ideal scenario would be for the state to retain a stake in Explosia, whose best-known product is Semtex, and thus retain influence over the company’s future operations.
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