Thursday

Chronicle of October 22, 2026

40 entries

• Trade unions at Škoda Auto reject the Volkswagen Group's demand for a wage freeze, which according to them also covers this Czech manufacturer.

  iDNES.cz · Echo24
  

• According to Czech Radio's Radiožurnál, Culture Minister Oto Klempíř ordered extraordinary audits of four members of the Asociace nezávislých divadel; he justified them by doubts about the eligibility of the reported costs and rejects any link to the ministry's criticism.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• A coalition agreement was signed in Ostrava under which the city will be run by ANO together with Starostové and Ostravak.

  Novinky.cz · Blesk.cz
  

• In Ostrava, representatives of the ANO movement, Starostové pro Ostravu and the Ostravak movement signed a coalition agreement; together they hold 37 seats in the 55-member city council, and Richard Vereš of ANO is to become mayor.

  ČT24: regiony · ČTK / České noviny

• Five groupings in Prague 1 concluded a coalition agreement without the election winner, the Praha 1 sobě grouping; the incumbent mayor from TOP 09 is to remain in office.

  Pražský patriot · ČTK / České noviny
  

• The Národní centrála proti organizovanému zločinu charged two people with investment fraud connected with investments in aquaponic farms; according to the police the damage amounts to two billion crowns and about 5,000 clients were harmed, and both defendants are in custody.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz: Brno

• STAN chairman Vít Rakušan announced that the movement will turn to the Mandátový a imunitní výbor over the conduct of MP Miroslav Ševčík (SPD) and Speaker Tomio Okamura (SPD) during a late-night sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on 21 October; Okamura said the situation had unfolded differently.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24
  

• At a press conference the director general of Česká pošta said that the company ran a loss of about two billion crowns in 2025 and expects a gradual return to profit in 2028; its network of almost 3,000 branches is to be kept.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• On 22 October 2026 the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Czechia breaches EU law by allowing a suspect to be questioned without a defence lawyer if the lawyer does not appear within 48 hours of the detention; it upheld the European Commission's action and found the same failing in Hungary.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24 · Seznam Zprávy · iROZHLAS · Novinky.cz
  

• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic awarded the Gratias Agit prize to, among others, video game creator Daniel Vávra and director Jiří Strach; Minister Petr Macinka presented the award.

  Echo24 · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz · Novinky.cz
  

• Culture Minister Oto Klempíř declined to provide funds for the 17 November celebrations on Národní in Prague; the South Bohemian Region is to give 300,000 crowns towards them.

  Seznam Zprávy · ČTK / České noviny · Blesk.cz · Novinky.cz · Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy
  

• STV Invest bought a stake in Promet Tools and thereby became a co-owner of Tatra of Kopřivnice.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj
  

• In Šumperk, Nezávislá volba, STAN and Srdcem pro Šumperk agreed on a coalition; the ANO movement will be in opposition.

  ČTK / České noviny · Hanácká Drbna
  

• In Frýdek-Místek the groupings Naše Město F-M and Společně signed a coalition agreement, together holding a majority; Petr Korč is to become mayor.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz
  

• Václav Havel Airport Prague is switching to its winter timetable, offering flights to 145 destinations, twenty of them new.

  iDNES.cz · Pražský patriot
  

• The closure of tunnels in Brno is complicating supplies to shops in the city, and deliveries are running late.

  Deník: Jihomoravský kraj · Brněnská Drbna
  

• The Kaprain group of billionaire Karel Pražák is buying the Uni Hobby chain of DIY stores, from which businessman Jiří Šimáně is thus exiting.

  Novinky.cz · Hospodářské noviny
  

• In Berlin at the Berlin Global Dialogue conference, President Petr Pavel said that sanctions on Russia can be eased only as the result of a peace process and only if Russia shows willingness to negotiate and agrees to a ceasefire in Ukraine.

  ČTK / České noviny · FORUM 24
  

• The Regional Court in Weiden sentenced the former managing director of the German company Roth International to four and a half years in prison for illegally exporting waste to Czechia; the verdict is not yet final.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24 · Novinky.cz
  

• Hackers attacked the Czech Technical University in Prague, which shut down part of its systems as a result.

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

• A high court upheld a prison sentence of five and a half years for attempted fraud imposed on the founder of the company Pivovary Lobkowicz.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz

• The council of the Vysočina Region selected České dráhy to operate regional electric trains from 2031; the decision is not yet final.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• Korzo Národní has launched a fundraising appeal in response to Minister Klempíř withdrawing its subsidies.

  iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz
  

• The zoo in Plzeň opened the Waharoa exhibit with brown kiwis, kea parrots and other birds from New Zealand and Australia; construction cost seven million crowns.

  Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Plzeňská Drbna
  

• A reservoir costing 47 million crowns is being built near Klimkovice and is meant to protect the town from floods.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · Ostravská Drbna
  

• Radek Popelka, the outgoing deputy mayor of Jihlava, announced his resignation as chairman of the Jihlava branch of the ANO movement.

  iDNES.cz · Deník: Vysočina
  

• Czech publishers warned that Meta's new terms may restrict their rights to content and called on the European Commission to intervene.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy
  

• The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, with the votes of 93 coalition deputies, approved the basic parameters of next year's state budget with a planned deficit of 386 billion koruna and moved it to the second reading.

  Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy · Echo24 · FORUM 24
  

• In Příbram, the parties Spojenci, Příbram zdola, Šance pro Příbram-Naše Česko and Příbramáci pro Příbram signed a coalition agreement, leaving the winning ANO in opposition, and Markéta Škodová is to become mayor.

  Novinky.cz · ČT24: regiony
  

• According to reports of 22 October 2026, the first Czech line that processes used tobacco and nicotine refills into an additive for asphalt mixes was put into operation in Hoříň near Mělník in the Central Bohemian Region.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz
  

• The new premises of the pathology and genetics laboratories of the company EUC were officially opened in Ostrava, in the Moravian-Silesian Region, on 22 October 2026.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj
  

• Martin Půta, the Governor of the Liberec Region, presented the Governor's Honours in the Lidové sady park in Liberec on 22 October 2026, the last time he did so in that office, as he put it.

  Deník: Liberecký kraj · Český rozhlas Liberec
  

• After the Ministry of Culture rejected a subsidy, an initiative called #500proOldu appeared on the social network X, in which people send 500 crowns to the collection of the association Díky, že můžem for the 17 November celebrations, referring to the payment that Culture Minister Oto Klempíř received according to his StB file.

  Novinky.cz · FORUM 24
  

• US Secretary Marco Rubio made a brief stop in Prague on 22 October 2026, the embassy of the United States announced.

  Echo24 · Novinky.cz · Blesk.cz
  

• The negotiating team of the STAN movement in Prague announced on 22 October 2026 that it will continue to work out a coalition with Spolu and Praha sobě; the Pirates declined to take part in such a coalition.

  ČT24 · ČTK / České noviny
  

• The city of Hradec Králové has announced the modernisation of the kitchen and canteen of Sever Primary School at a cost of more than 38 million crowns, with construction due to begin in early 2027.

  Deník: Královéhradecký kraj · Hradecká Drbna
  

• The Karlovy Vary Region reported on the 2025 annual report on the performance of the regional functions of libraries, which it received from the National Library of the Czech Republic and according to which it ranks first in the country in several indicators of library support, for example with 15 libraries per methodologist against a national average of 26.

  Karlovarská Drbna · ČRo Karlovy Vary
  

• České Budějovice will get a Christmas tree for the náměstí Přemysla Otakara II.: a 14-metre ornamental fir from Ševětín, donated to the city by the family in whose garden it grew.

  Budějcká Drbna · Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy
  

• Opposition deputies and senators announced that they would challenge before the Constitutional Court the abolition of the president's power to appoint and recall heads of permanent missions to international organisations, and would also seek an interim measure; according to ČT24 the petition was filed on Friday, 23 October 2026.

  ČT24 · FORUM 24 · Lidovky.cz
  

• A man suspected of murder and attempted murder in Jílové in the Děčín District died in hospital after a crash on the D8 motorway; because of his death the police will file a proposal to halt the criminal prosecution.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

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