Tuesday

Chronicle of September 29, 2026

35 entries

• Police are investigating the lead in Odolena Voda's water on suspicion of damaging and endangering the environment.

  iROZHLAS · Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz
  

• Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni held talks in Prague with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on the EU budget, competitiveness and security.

  ČTK / České noviny · Blesk.cz · Echo24
  

• The exhibition of the Czech crown jewels at Prague Castle ended; the key-holders returned them to St Vitus Cathedral.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČTK / České noviny · Blesk.cz
  

• Bata announced that it will end shoe production next year at its plant in Dolní Němčí, its only factory in Central Europe.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · E15
  

• Prague traffic police began using the first mobile noise meter to detect illegally modified exhausts.

  iDNES.cz · Blesk.cz · Pražský deník
  

• The academic senate of Tomas Bata University in Zlín re-elected rector Milan Adámek for another four years.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník: Zlínský kraj · iDNES.cz
  

• Petra Wünschová, founder of the Locika centre for abused children, died aged 52.

  iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz · iDNES.cz

• The Supreme Administrative Court upheld Jaroslav Brož's cassation complaint; the Prague Municipal Court must rule again on his dismissal as dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · Seznam Zprávy
  

• Conservationists released about 2,100 sturgeon into the Morava and Dyje rivers.

  Ekolist.cz · ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS
  

• The Regional Court in Brno acquitted a man accused of burning a five-month-old child, finding it unproven that he caused the injuries.

  Deník: Jihomoravský kraj · iDNES.cz · Novinky.cz
  

• Police announced extensive measures ahead of an illegal gathering of thousands of tuned cars and may close roads preventively.

  ČTK / České noviny · Blesk.cz · Česká pozice · Echo24 · Ekonomický deník
  

• According to Seznam Zprávy, Andrej Babiš and Tünde Bartha propose dismissing a tenth of civil servants.

  E15 · ČT24 · Echo24 · Blesk.cz · Novinky.cz
  

• The environmental organisation Hnutí Duha rejected statements by Macinka, who had called it a "green mafia".

  iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz · Ekolist.cz · ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz

• Michal Šašek is to head the Czech Radio studios in Plzeň and Karlovy Vary from October 2026.

  Médiář · MediaGuru · Deník N · Lupa.cz

• PPF Real Estate is to buy from the Kaprain group several companies holding planned real estate projects around the O2 arena in Prague; the Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) is reviewing the transaction.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Echo24
  

• Prime Minister Andrej Babiš met President Petr Pavel to discuss a response to a possible Russian attack in the Baltic states and the agenda of the next meeting of the National Security Council.

  iROZHLAS · Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz
  

• A bus carrying about fifty passengers caught fire in Lutonina in the Zlín area; everyone managed to get out.

  Deník: Zlínský kraj · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz · Novinky.cz · ZLIN.CZ

• The Mahen Theatre in Brno is to undergo a reconstruction costing CZK 2 billion.

  iDNES.cz · Deník: Jihomoravský kraj · Novinky.cz · Brněnská Drbna
  

• After an outbreak of salmonellosis at a primary school in Újezd nad Lesy, the number of infected people rose to 391, and according to the mayor the school was to reopen on Wednesday, 30 September 2026.

  Pražský deník · Pražský patriot · iROZHLAS · Novinky.cz
  

• Prime Minister Andrej Babiš held talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on emission allowances and on funding for farmers within the European Union.

  Novinky.cz · FORUM 24 · Hospodářské noviny · Ekolist.cz
  

• Human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, called on Prime Minister Andrej Babiš to revoke the appointment of three new members of the Government Council for Human Rights.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz · FORUM 24 · Novinky.cz

• Vegetable growers in Czechia report damage of 700 million korunas so far this year caused by spring frosts, hail and drought.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · iROZHLAS · Ekolist.cz

• One of the drivers died in a collision of two lorries on the D11 motorway near Poděbrady, and the motorway towards Prague was closed until about 3 p.m.

  iDNES.cz, Praha · Blesk.cz · Novinky.cz
  

• At Všestary, on the D35 motorway construction site in the Hradec Králové Region, traffic was moved from a one-kilometre section onto a new diversion with an overpass near Plotiště.

  Deník: Královéhradecký kraj · Zdopravy.cz · iROZHLAS
  

• Because of drought, the dam of the original medieval pond emerged from the Plumlov Reservoir in the Olomouc Region.

  iDNES.cz · Deník: Olomoucký kraj · Ekolist.cz
  

• The Czech Army is testing unmanned systems and defences against them at the Březina Military Training Area near Vyškov and at a range in Lipník nad Bečvou as part of the third Drone Shield 2026 exercise, which more than 70 companies from 17 countries have joined.

  ČTK / České noviny · Brněnská Drbna · iROZHLAS
  

• Two former agricultural buildings burned in Všelibice near Liberec; firefighters of the Liberec Region declared a second-degree fire alarm and 16 units responded.

  iDNES.cz · Deník: Liberecký kraj · Liberecká Drbna
  

• Seven key holders returned the coronation jewels to the Korunní komora of St Vitus Cathedral after an exhibition that about 36,600 people visited in two weeks.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČTK / České noviny · ČTK / České noviny · ČTK / České noviny · Blesk.cz · Pražský deník
  

• President Petr Pavel and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš were to receive the Romanian president, Nicușor Dan, in Prague, with the security of NATO's eastern flank as the topic of the talks.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz · ČTK / České noviny
  

• The company Orlen Unipetrol expressed doubts about the constitutionality of the new tax on refinery margins and said it could endanger investment.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz · Novinky.cz
  

• In the Prague district of Libuš, a local referendum on consent to the planned revitalisation of the Písnice housing estate, bought by the groups SATPO and WOOD & Company, is to be held together with the elections on 9 and 10 October 2026.

  Pražský patriot · Pražský deník
  

• The Prague city councillor Antonín Klecanda (STAN) said that the stadium for university ice hockey is to be built in the Pelc-Tyrolka area in Prague 8 instead of on Štvanice; according to him, the leadership of Prague 7 was against Štvanice.

  Pražský patriot · Pražský deník
  

• Interior Minister Lubomír Metnar announced that the salaries of police officers, firefighters, customs officers and prison service staff will increase annually by 2,600 to 2,900 crowns per month between 2027 and 2029.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČTK / České noviny · Deník.cz · ČT24 · Novinky.cz · Blesk.cz
  

• A crash between two lorries closed the D5 motorway in both directions near Mýto in the Plzeň Region.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz
  

• The Karlovy Vary Region road administration finished the structural stabilisation of road II/230 near Bečov nad Teplou; the works cost over 22 million crowns.

  Karlovarská Drbna · Deník: Karlovarský kraj
  

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