Monday

Chronicle of October 5, 2026

35 entries

• Some forty editors-in-chief of Czech news and current-affairs media published an appeal titled Základní hranice (Basic Limits), calling on public officials to reject violence and respect free access to information.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24
  

• Prague city councillors approved the selection of a consortium led by SMP Construction to build the transport terminal at Smíchov railway station for roughly 6.2 billion crowns excluding VAT.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy
  

• A court in Ostrava sentenced a former member of parliament to a further year in prison for obstructing the enforcement of an official decision, namely for fleeing to Paraguay before starting a six-year sentence for subsidy fraud, and both sides waived an appeal.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · iDNES.cz
  

• The District Court for Prague 3 ruled, not yet finally, that an unsuccessful Motoristé candidate for the Chamber of Deputies must apologise to an activist and documentary maker for a false Facebook claim that she made a Nazi salute, and pay her 50,000 crowns for non-material harm.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• The government approved, on the proposal of Culture Minister Oto Klempíř, the State Cultural Policy for 2026 to 2029, which is criticised by the opposition and part of the cultural community.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• The Prague Public Transit Company began building a 1.3-kilometre tram line to Strahov with a ceremonial laying of the foundation stone; the European Union is covering 85 per cent of the funding, and trams are due to start running there in 2028.

  Zdopravy.cz · Pražský deník
  

• Senator and Prague councillor Hana Kordová Marvanová testified in court in the Dozimetr case, saying that she regarded some contracts of the Prague Public Transit Company as non-transparent and that she felt pressure and bossing over her votes in the Prague city council.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24
  

• A memorial plaque to Václav Havel was unveiled in the Senate of the Czech Republic on the 90th anniversary of his birth, and Senate President Miloš Vystrčil said on the occasion that Havel's criticism of the immoral conduct of the powerful remains relevant for today's politicians.

  FORUM 24 · ČTK / České noviny
  

• On the morning of 5 October 2026, 23 CityElefant train units were missing on suburban lines around Prague, and the Central Bohemian Region said it was ready to apply contractual penalties against České dráhy.

  ČTK / České noviny · E15
  

• The Ministry of Culture has announced a new selection procedure for the director general of the National Gallery Prague, with applications and concepts accepted until 5 November 2026.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy
  

• Prague City Hall has set up a working group that is to prepare a permanent memorial for the victims of the shooting at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University.

  Pražský deník · iDNES.cz

• The Czech Armed Forces withdrew the Air Force's patronage of the Future Air Force conference to be held in Prague, stating that the activities of persons involved in organising it conflict with the security interests of the Czech Republic.

  iDNES.cz · Seznam Zprávy
  

• In an audit of start-up support for 2021 to 2025, the Supreme Audit Office found that the Ministry of Industry and Trade provided CZK 914 million to the agency CzechInvest and did not monitor whether the set goals were met in most projects.

  Seznam Zprávy · Echo24
  

• On 5 October 2026 Prague city councillors put the reconstruction of Hall 18 in the Holešovická tržnice market, which formerly housed a brothel, into the investment plan with an estimated budget of about 260 million crowns excluding VAT.

  Hospodářské noviny · Pražský deník
  

• Správa železnic has announced a tender for the environmental impact assessment documentation and the building-permit design of the new Brno hlavní nádraží and Heršpice stations in Brno, with a maximum price of 711 million crowns; bids can be submitted until 9 December 2026.

  Brněnská Drbna · Deník: Jihomoravský kraj
  

• Because of drought, the water level of Vranov Dam near Znojmo in the South Moravian Region has fallen to 338.34 metres above sea level, exposing the remains of the flooded village of Bítov.

  Ekolist.cz · iDNES.cz: Brno
  

• A team of archaeologists and engineers from the University of West Bohemia is documenting the remains of the Sauersack mining complex near the abandoned village of Rolava in the Ore Mountains in the Karlovy Vary Region and is creating a virtual three-dimensional model of it.

  Deník: Karlovarský kraj · Karlovarská Drbna
  

• Editors-in-chief of a number of Czech media outlets published a joint appeal to politicians, asking them to reject violence in public debate and to give all media access to the official information of public offices.

  Deník · Ekonomický deník

• Czechia marked the 90th anniversary of the birth of Václav Havel; Czech Radio published a video by former US President Bill Clinton, in which he recalls Havel.

  FORUM 24
  

• The revitalisation of the Těšínské divadlo building in Český Těšín won the Grand Prix in the Construction of the Moravian-Silesian Region competition.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · Ostravská Drbna
  

• Prague presented an architectural study for rebuilding the Šutka sports complex into a swimming sports centre with a 50-metre pool, with preliminary costs estimated at 2.5 to 3 billion crowns.

  Pražská Drbna · Pražský deník
  

• Prague city councillors took note of a plan to set up a Mental Health Centre for Seniors in the Mrázovka villa in Prague 5, to be used by the municipal organisation Palata.

  Pražský patriot · Pražský deník
  

• In Karlovy Vary, the investor NCKV presented the Nové centrum district project in Rybáře on the site of the demolished brewery; excavation for the first stage of 73 flats is planned to begin in November.

  Karlovarská Drbna
  

• Door and frame manufacturer Doornite from Jihlava launched a public offering of shares when entering the Start market of the Prague Stock Exchange, with a price range of 400 to 500 crowns per share, and is accepting investor bids until 19 October.

  Seznam Zprávy · Hospodářské noviny · E15
  

• The multimedia exhibition Jak se dotknout nebe by Barbora Šlapetová and Lukáš Rittstein opened on the piazzetta in front of the Industrial Palace at Výstaviště Praha and will be on display until 18 October 2026.

  Pražský patriot · Pražský deník
  

• A private investor withdrew its environmental impact assessment (EIA) application for a planned artificial intelligence data centre in Ralsko in the Česká Lípa district and announced it would subject the project to further analysis.

  iROZHLAS · Ekolist.cz · Liberecká Drbna
  

• The South Bohemian Regional Court opened insolvency proceedings against the football club Dynamo České Budějovice, which according to the petition owes approximately 850,000 crowns to three creditors.

  Český rozhlas České Budějovice · Český rozhlas České Budějovice · ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · Seznam Zprávy · Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy
  

• In the Casino Babylon Liberec gaming hall on Nitranská street, an unknown attacker assaulted a staff member early on Monday morning, shortly before half past four, leaving the victim with severe injuries, and police detained a suspect at the scene.

  Liberecká Drbna · iDNES.cz
  

• A train on the line between Česká Lípa and Nový Bor hit stones placed on the tracks, and police are investigating the case as endangering public safety as part of a recurring series of similar incidents.

  Liberecká Drbna · iDNES.cz · iROZHLAS
  

• The investment group AKIPIA, owned by Michal Strnad, Tomáš Brzobohatý and Marek Šmrha, entered as the main investor in the Roma Tower skyscraper project in Warsaw, valued at up to 20 billion Czech korunas.

  E15 · Info.cz · Deník.cz
  

• The Czech Republic marked the 90th anniversary of Václav Havel's birth with exhibitions, conferences, radio broadcasts and Signal Festival installations, including at the Prague airport that bears his name.

  Český rozhlas Sever (Ústí, Karlovy Vary) · iROZHLAS · ČT24 · Pražský deník · Deník N · Pražský deník
  

• Cultural events and debates are being held in Prague and other cities for the 90th anniversary of Václav Havel's birth; memorial plaques are to be unveiled in the Senate of the Czech Republic and on a house in Dejvice where Havel lived in the 1970s.

  ČTK / České noviny · Pražský deník · ČTK / České noviny
  

• The Prague hygiene station recorded 475 people ill among those who ate at a primary school in Újezd nad Lesy, 219 of them with laboratory-confirmed salmonellosis; 99 people have been hospitalised since the outbreak began, and the investigation points to insufficiently heat-treated expired eggs as the likely source, while police are examining the case.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy · Deník.cz

• A memorial plaque to Václav Havel was unveiled in Prague 6 on the house U Dejvického rybníčku, where signatures for Charter 77 were collected in 1976, on the 90th anniversary of his birth.

  Pražský patriot
  

• On 5 October a group of senators submitted to the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic a petition to annul the law under which the government may set maximum prices of petrol and diesel by decree; the court made the petition public on 14 October.

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

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