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Chronicle of October 14, 2026

40 entries

• Banks granted mortgages worth CZK 35.4 billion in September, three percent more than in August.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS
  

• A flat caught fire in Požární Street in Karlovy Vary; eight fire brigade units attended.

  iDNES.cz · Karlovarská Drbna
  

• In Zlín, after the municipal elections, ODS, the Společně pro Zlín list and the Zlín Srdcem a Piráti group formed a joint negotiating team; together they hold 12 of the 41 seats on the council.

  ČTK / České noviny
  

• In Prague, Technická správa komunikací hlavního města Prahy announced that from 23 October to 10 December 2026 it will repair the surface of Cínovecká Street in the direction of the centre, on a 4.3-kilometre section from the Mratínský potok stream to Rochlická Street.

  Pražský patriot · Pražský deník
  

• In insolvency proceedings against the football club Dynamo České Budějovice, creditors, according to the insolvency register, are claiming a total of 1.8 million crowns, and the court is to deal with the insolvency petition on 9 November.

  ČTK / České noviny · E15 · Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy
  

• The public prosecutor in Jihlava confirmed that he had concluded plea agreements with two accused persons, including the former director of the social services centre in Jihlava, which still have to be approved by a court.

  Jihlavské listy · Deník: Vysočina
  

• The European Commission proposed postponing by one year the key obligations of the regulation on methane emissions for imported oil and gas, which the Czech Republic had also pushed for; Prime Minister Andrej Babiš called it an important result for the country.

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

• At a Prague court, a Chinese national accused of espionage for an intelligence service rejected the indictment.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy · Pražský deník

• The Constitutional Court rejected two complaints by the main accused in the bitcoin case, directed against the police engaging a court expert and against the denial of access to part of the case file.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · iDNES.cz
  

• The Creditas group, which took over the Nová Velkomoravská project in Olomouc in June 2026, stated that it does not plan to build a multipurpose hall on the site.

  Deník: Olomoucký kraj · Hanácká Drbna
  

• The Chamber of Deputies overrode, with the votes of 104 deputies of the ANO, SPD and Motoristé coalition, the veto of President Petr Pavel on the new act on state employees and on a related amendment that abolishes the president's power to appoint and recall heads of permanent missions to international organisations.

  Blesk.cz · iROZHLAS · Hospodářské noviny · Echo24
  

• Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, before leaving for a European summit, said that Education Minister Robert Plaga has his confidence and that he is not preparing changes in the government.

  Echo24 · Seznam Zprávy · FORUM 24
  

• The company iO Partners presented data according to which 23,300 apartments were under construction in Prague in mid-2026, the most since market monitoring began in 2010.

  ČTK / České noviny · Pražský patriot
  

• Customs officers from Ostrava seized 34 kilograms of kratom during a vehicle check in the Šumperk area of the Olomouc Region; the driver and passenger are suspected of unauthorised handling of a psychomodulatory substance.

  Ostravská Drbna · Novinky.cz · Deník.cz

• Coalition leaders and experts agreed at a meeting in the Chamber of Deputies on the shape of the education amendment on teaching assistants, which according to participants the government may take up on Monday 19 October 2026.

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

• After the municipal elections, coalitions without the winning ANO movement were agreed in Aš and Mariánské Lázně in the Karlovy Vary Region; ANO goes into opposition there, so among the region's largest towns it will keep the town hall only in Karlovy Vary.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• Police charged a 31-year-old man from the Plzeň area with seven offences, including thefts from parcel lockers, burglaries and damage of over 700,000 crowns after he drove a stolen car into an electronics shop in Plzeň; he is in custody.

  Novinky.cz · Deník: Plzeňský kraj

• The Road and Motorway Directorate opened another 2.2 kilometres of the D6 motorway in the Ústí nad Labem Region; completion of the remaining 9.1 kilometres will be delayed because of a change in bridge construction technology, and according to director Radek Mátl the cost will rise.

  Echo24 · iDNES.cz: Ústí nad Labem
  

• Drought in the South Bohemian Region is delaying the autumn pond harvests: fishery operators are postponing the harvests of large ponds to the turn of November and December, Rybářství Hluboká has cancelled its ceremonial harvests, and the harvest of Rožmberk, the largest Czech pond, is not taking place this year.

  Ekolist.cz · Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy
  

• A court is to hear the case of a Chinese citizen who, according to the indictment, is a member of Chinese intelligence and operated in Czechia under cover as a foreign journalist accredited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the defendant is charged with unauthorised activity for a foreign power.

  Pražský deník
  

• Police in Jihlava have named three men aged 18, 30 and 31 as suspects in misdemeanours of rioting and attempted bodily harm after the assault on visiting fans and security staff at the Horácká aréna during a preseason ice hockey match on 1 September.

  Novinky.cz · Jihlavská Drbna

• An economist from the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences presented to the Social Policy Committee of the Chamber of Deputies a study according to which the proposed change to the definition of dependent work in the platform act would extend bogus self-employment; Minister of Labour Aleš Juchelka said the change merely clarifies the definition.

  ČTK / České noviny · Ekonomický deník
  

• In the Brno district of Jundrov, parties that lost the municipal elections have agreed on a new coalition in which the incumbent mayor, after sixteen years, will leave office and move into opposition.

  Deník: Jihomoravský kraj · Brněnská Drbna
  

• French politician Marine Le Pen described Andrej Babiš as an important ally in the European Union.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz
  

• Transparency International published a letter from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, according to which the Commission concluded that Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is in a conflict of interest and that the measures taken so far do not address it sufficiently; Babiš called this nonsense.

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

• The investment group RSJ and the company Na Jelenách are planning a purely rental district in the south of Prague with about 5,500 flats for up to 16,000 residents and an estimated investment of around CZK 50 billion; the first stage could start construction in 2027.

  ČTK / České noviny · E15
  

• The ANO movement began post-election coalition talks in the Prague 11 district of the capital Prague and wants to negotiate with all groupings.

  Pražský deník · Pražský patriot
  

• After the 2026 municipal elections, Jana Drejslová, the outgoing deputy mayor from the Rychnov PLUS group, is set to become mayor of Rychnov nad Kněžnou; the four-party coalition holds 13 votes in the 21-member council, and the inaugural meeting is scheduled for 5 November.

  ČTK / České noviny · Hradecká Drbna
  

• After the 2026 municipal elections, Jiří Stodůlka, the outgoing deputy mayor from the winning Frýdlant pro všechny group, is set to become mayor of Frýdlant in the Liberec Region; three groupings signed a coalition agreement and hold 12 votes in the 21-member council, and the inaugural meeting is scheduled for 4 November.

  Liberecká Drbna · Novinky.cz
  

• Defence Minister Jaromír Zůna (for SPD), according to his reply to an interpellation, instructed the Chief of the General Staff to dismiss Radek Haratek, commander of the Information and Cyber Forces Command; the General Staff later said that Haratek remains in his post.

  Echo24 · FORUM 24 · Ekonomický deník
  

• A female serval escaped from a small zoo in the Jihlava area late on 14 October; police ask people nearby to be careful and to report any sighting on the 158 line.

  Deník: Vysočina · Jihlavská Drbna
  

• On 14 October the State Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority found Nutrilon infant formula, previously withdrawn from sale because of a toxin, in Kaufland stores in Jablonec nad Nisou, Humpolec and Děčín; according to the inspectorate, the retailer had pulled it from the shelves on 9 October, and the inspectorate is checking whether any packs reached consumers.

  Deník.cz · Liberecká Drbna

• On 14 October 2026, the groupings Společně pro Prahu 10, STAN, Vlasty a lidovců and Praha 10 sobě se Zelenými signed a memorandum on a new coalition in Prague 10, which is to hold 24 of the 45 seats on the council; Martin Valovič is to remain mayor.

  Pražský deník
  

• A prosecutor of the Regional Public Prosecutor's Office in Ostrava filed an indictment on 14 October 2026 against former judge Roman Kafka, whom the police had charged with fraud; according to the indictment, it concerned 70 acts with 32.3 million crowns obtained.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy

• The South Bohemian police detained a 70-year-old man on 14 October 2026 who, according to the police spokesman, had threatened in front of witnesses to shoot the judge who handled his criminal case; the man has been charged.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz
  

• Detectives in the Moravian-Silesian Region have concluded their investigation of a fraud involving benefits for Ukrainian refugees, in which the identities of dozens of women from Ukraine were misused; the fraud is said to have brought in almost three million crowns.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · Ostravská Drbna
  

• The main prizes of the Ota Hofman Children's Film and Television Festival were awarded in Ostrov: the Ostrov Bagpipe went to the films Skřítek: Nový začátek and Potopa, actress Veronika Freimanová received the Golden Bowler Hat and Zdeněk Svěrák received the Karlovy Vary Region Governor's Award.

  ČRo Karlovy Vary · Deník: Karlovarský kraj
  

• In Olomouc, outgoing mayor Miroslava Ferancová announced that the winning ANO movement would stay out of the city hall coalition of five groupings led by STAN and would sit in opposition.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník: Olomoucký kraj
  

• The Zlín 21 grouping ended coalition talks with the winning ANO movement in Zlín in the Zlín Region, and the Christian Democrats, the ODS and the Pirates formed a three-party bloc.

  iDNES.cz · Novinky.cz

• HDK with TOP 09, the Pirates and Mayors, and Change for Hradec, the Greens and KDU-ČSL agreed on a coalition in Hradec Králové with Pavlína Springerová as its candidate for mayor; the parties are to decide by Friday whether ODS will join.

  Hradecká Drbna · Deník: Královéhradecký kraj
  

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