Thursday

Chronicle of October 15, 2026

40 entries

• The two 355-metre masts of the Liblice B transmitter near Český Brod are to be blown up together; the district mining authority permitted the blasting by a decision of 3 September 2026, and police are to close road I/12 between Prague and Kolín for the necessary time.

  Lupa.cz · ČTK / České noviny

• The police have launched a search for 43-year-old man, whom they suspect of attempted murder in the Uherské Hradiště area; they warned that he may be dangerous and asked the public not to try to detain him but to call 158.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz

• Before the start of the EU summit in Brussels, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš called the European Commission's proposals for new own resources of the future multiannual EU budget completely unacceptable for the Czech Republic; he objects mainly to part of the revenue from the tobacco excise duty, ETS emission allowances and the CBAM carbon border levy going to the EU budget.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24 · Novinky.cz
  

• The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic opened its sitting with interpellations of members of the government, in which Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is not taking part because of the European Council meeting in Brussels; on its agenda for first reading is a government amendment to the Criminal Code raising penalties for environmental offences to up to ten years in prison.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24
  

• According to Seznam Zprávy, which obtained a non-public draft protocol of the Supreme Audit Office, a conflict of interest of a former adviser to Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Aleš Juchelka will cause the state budget unforeseen costs of CZK 82,988,686.09 in three projects of the National Recovery Plan; the ministry has already paid out almost CZK 50 million to the beneficiaries. Juchelka said that no damage had been caused.

  Seznam Zprávy
  

• A TOP 09 candidate from the Milujeme Olomouc group gave up her seat on the Olomouc council because the group regards her preferential votes in one polling district as wrongly transcribed; the seat will therefore go to the Pirates and the group will not file a petition with the court.

  iDNES.cz · Deník: Olomoucký kraj
  

• Five groupings signed a coalition agreement in Kroměříž; Tomáš Opatrný of the ANO movement is to remain mayor of the town.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz
  

• According to an analysis, courts in the Czech Republic declared bankruptcy on 618 companies in the first three quarters of 2026, the highest number since 2016.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• The writer and journalist Rudolf Křesťan, author of more than three thousand newspaper columns, has died at the age of 83.

  ČT24 · Seznam Zprávy

• The ethics committee of the Football Association of the Czech Republic banned a former top-league referee from football for 15 years and fined him 150,000 crowns for corruption; the decision is not final and the referee intends to appeal.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník.cz

• The Czech National Bank fined Pojišťovna VZP six million crowns over the way it handled compulsory motor insurance; the insurer's appeal was unsuccessful.

  E15 · Seznam Zprávy
  

• The High Court in Olomouc raised the sentence of the Ostrava rapper Hard Rico, who now performs as Rico, for robbery and extortion from four to five years in prison and upheld his fine of two million crowns; it also raised the sentence of one co-defendant and gave a suspended sentence to a female defendant in the group.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj

• The General Inspectorate of Security Forces has launched criminal proceedings against a Customs Administration officer at the Prague airport, suspecting him of accepting at least twenty bribes from importers of goods from Vietnam; he faces up to ten years in prison.

  Pražská Drbna · Novinky.cz
  

• In the first reading, the Chamber of Deputies backed a government amendment under which only applicants who prove a legitimate interest to the Ministry of Justice would have access to the register of beneficial owners of companies; the register has been closed to the public since December 2025.

  Seznam Zprávy · Hospodářské noviny
  

• A solar car park for about 500 vehicles has been built at the Denso plant in Liberec; it is described as the largest in Czechia.

  Deník: Liberecký kraj · iDNES.cz: Liberec
  

• In the second issue of the Republic Bonds the Ministry of Finance sold three-month bonds for citizens worth CZK 44.6 billion, of which CZK 17.5 billion is new purchases and CZK 27.1 billion reinvestment from the first issue.

  ČTK / České noviny · E15
  

• In Zákupy in the Česká Lípa area, renovation of another part of the farmyard by the château has begun, where archaeological finds are to be stored; the work is to cost CZK 242 million.

  iDNES.cz: Liberec · Novinky.cz
  

• Despite opposition from the SPD, the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic backed the convention establishing a claims commission for Ukraine.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• The Constitutional Court rejected the complaint of the city of Kladno in its dispute with the Central Bohemian Region over public transport funding; the region says it acted lawfully when it cut some services in Kladno after the city declined to join the unified system.

  iROZHLAS · Seznam Zprávy
  

• The Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže rejected the Stadler group's objections to the selection of Škoda Group in the České dráhy tender for up to 133 electric trains for Prague and the Central Bohemian Region; the decision is not yet final, so České dráhy cannot sign the contract with the winner.

  iDNES.cz · Ekonomický deník
  

• Vítek's CPI group is offering a Warsaw skyscraper for sale; according to Hospodářské noviny its tenants include Samsung and Goldman Sachs, and according to Seznam Zprávy the price could be around nine billion koruna.

  Seznam Zprávy
  

• The 14th Signal Festival began in Prague and will offer 21 light and audiovisual installations at 17 locations until Sunday, 18 October, for the first time also in Dejvice.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz, Praha

• The Archa III project, a mobile photogrammetry unit funded by the Karel Komárek Family Foundation for the digital documentation of monuments in Ukraine, was included in TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.

  iDNES.cz · Novinky.cz
  

• The Canadian company Cohere announced a preliminary agreement to buy the cybersecurity start-up AISLE, founded by former Avast chief Ondřej Vlček and with a development centre in Prague; the financial terms were not disclosed.

  Seznam Zprávy · Hospodářské noviny
  

• Environmental organisations including Greenpeace Czech Republic said that Prime Minister Andrej Babiš's proposal to change the emissions trading system does not address the cause of high energy prices; the Czech-Italian proposal could be discussed at the EU summit in Brussels.

  FORUM 24 · Ekolist.cz

• Cave divers in the Moravian Karst unrolled 200 metres of new line on a dive this week and mapped about 150 metres of previously unknown passages in the area where the Punkva river originates.

  iDNES.cz: Brno · iROZHLAS

• Healthcare trade unions asked Prime Minister Andrej Babiš for a meeting and demand that healthcare workers' pay rise by at least 6.2 per cent next year; Health Minister Adam Vojtěch said such an increase would mean a deficit in public health insurance.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz

• A passenger train travelling from Skuteč to Pardubice collided with a car at an unbarriered level crossing in the Chrudim region in the early evening; the car's driver died and no passengers on the train were injured.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz
  

• President Petr Pavel returned to Prague from his holiday in Morocco on a scheduled flight with a stopover in Marseille; according to iDNES.cz, he ultimately did not use a private aircraft for the journey back.

  Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz
  

• The company Hartmann-Rico announced that it will close its plant in Chvalkovice in the Náchod District in November 2027.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• At question time in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Culture Minister Oto Klempíř said he would not dismiss Deputy Minister Adam Kocián, who a week earlier in Teplice had called heritage conservationists a mafia; the minister described the remark as a joke.

  Blesk.cz · iROZHLAS
  

• Municipalities from sites where a nuclear waste repository could be built lodged a complaint with the European Commission.

  ČTK / České noviny · Ekolist.cz
  

• At the European Union summit in Brussels, the leaders of the member states failed on the first day to agree mainly on the ETS emissions trading system; the Czech Republic is pushing for changes to it.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz
  

• In the conclusions of the first day of the summit on 15 October 2026, the European Council called on the European Commission to reassess the impact of the ETS2 emissions trading system and called for the legislative process on the market stability reserve to be sped up; the Visegrád Group countries, including Czechia, had pushed for both changes.

  ČTK / České noviny · Hospodářské noviny
  

• Zdeněk Borýsek, a long-serving youth coach of the football club FC Zlín, has died; the club expressed its condolences in a statement on its website.

  Deník: Zlínský kraj
  

• On 15 October 2026, in post-election talks on a new Prague coalition, the negotiating teams of STAN and Spolu agreed on transport, education and housing, but did not agree on who would take the finance portfolio.

  ČTK / České noviny · Pražský patriot
  

• The hospital in Stod has opened a rheumatology outpatient clinic; the waiting time for an examination is so far short.

  Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Plzeňská Drbna
  

• Opava has had a study prepared for a new bus station behind the Opava východ railway station, with eight departure and four arrival stands, to replace the stops in front of the station in Janská Street.

  iDNES.cz: Ostrava
  

• In Teplice, the leaders of ANO and Volba pro Teplice signed a coalition memorandum; the coalition will hold 16 of 27 seats, and the winning ODS will be in opposition.

  ČTK / České noviny
  

• In Český Krumlov, four groups led by the second-placed Vize pro Krumlov agreed on a coalition holding 12 of 23 seats; the winning ANO will probably end up in opposition.

  Budějcká Drbna
  

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