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According to the British daily The Telegraph, President Petr Pavel is among the candidates to negotiate with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine.
An earthquake struck the Tachov area in western Bohemia during the night, waking residents.
In Prague's Řeporyje, ODS, TOP 09 and ANO have formed a coalition; Novotný is to become deputy mayor and his sister mayor.
An earthquake struck the Tachov area in the Plzeň Region during the night of 23 October 2026 and was felt by residents of the Tachov and Domažlice districts.
Radomír Lašák, chairman of the board of the state-owned company Letiště Praha, resigned for personal reasons after about three months in the post, the Ministry of Finance announced.
The Czech Statistical Office published its last estimate of this year's harvest, according to which the yield of main cereals fell by 16 percent year on year to 6.46 million tonnes and the rapeseed harvest is the lowest since 2005.
In Děčín, representatives of Volba pro Děčín, the Náš Děčín movement, ODS and STAN, who hold 16 of 27 seats on the city council, signed a coalition agreement, while the election-winning ANO movement will go into opposition.
The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, with the votes of the governing coalition, put a proposal to abolish the fees for Czech Television and Czech Radio on its agenda.
According to a study on deaths during heat waves intensified by climate change, more than 400 people died in Czechia in 2026 and more than 30,000 in Europe.
The company Taiko, which organises the Christmas markets, announced on 23 October 2026 that a spruce about 23 metres tall from Šimonovice in the Liberec Region had been chosen for Old Town Square in Prague.
On 23 October 2026 the Obec architektů presented at a press conference in Prague the successful bid of the capital for the title World Capital of Architecture for the years 2029 to 2032.
An earthquake of 3.4 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre near Bělá nad Radbuzou and a focus about nine kilometres deep, was recorded in the Plzeň Region on 23 October 2026 at 00:34.
The European Commission asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade in a letter to confirm whether the subsidy of 100 million koruna for a line at the bakery Penam was paid exclusively from the state budget, as the server iRozhlas.cz reported on 23 October 2026.
A protest in support of Czech Television and Czech Radio was due to take place on the afternoon of 23 October 2026 in front of the Chamber of Deputies building in Prague.
A farewell ceremony for the columnist Rudolf Křesťan, who died at the age of 83, was held at the Olšany Cemetery in Prague on 23 October 2026.
Police in the Liberec area detained a man suspected of stealing more than 100,000 crowns from a post office.
The Státní veterinární správa announced the first confirmed case of the Shamonda virus in Czechia, found on a cattle farm in the Tábor area.
Petr Slaný, a former footballer and member of the FC Baník Ostrava team that won the club's first league title in 1976, has died at the age of 74.
The Ministry of Finance announced the departure of Radomír Lašák from the head of Letiště Praha, which he joined on 1 August 2026; according to the ministry, the reason is personal.
The Veřejnoprávně initiative, which brings together employees of Czech Television and Czech Radio, called a full-day strike for Tuesday 3 November 2026 in response to the Chamber of Deputies giving priority to a bill abolishing television and radio licence fees.
The South Bohemian Region announced that the new Most Kosmonautů bridge over the Malše in České Budějovice will open only in spring 2027, because hard ground under the river complicated the relocation of utility lines.
On Friday 23 October 2026, at a sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Michaela Šebelová, chair of the STAN parliamentary club, said that the coalition majority did not allow the opposition deputy speakers of the chamber to chair the proceedings.
After the municipal elections, Pelhřimov will be run by a coalition of the ODS, the Christian Democrats and the Společně pro Pelhřimov group, and the current mayor will remain at the head of the town.
The Chamber of Deputies is giving priority to a bill abolishing the television and radio licence fees, and in response employees of Czech Television and Czech Radio have called an all-day strike for Tuesday 3 November 2026.
Minister Šťastný described the seminar on Palestine in the Chamber of Deputies, organised by the Green deputies Gabriela Svárovská and Irena Ferčíková Konečná, as one-sided, and the deputies responded to his criticism.
The Chamber of Deputies, with the votes of the coalition, rejected the requests of five opposition clubs for breaks in the proceedings, which according to the coalition Motorists would have delayed the vote on abolishing the television and radio fees, and the opposition called the conduct of the chair Tomio Okamura a breach of the rules of procedure.
The board of the State Audiovisual Fund unanimously opposed the request of Minister of Culture Ota Klempíř to cut the planned support for 2027 by about 400 million crowns, to half, and stated that the cut would save the state budget nothing.
The Million Moments association called demonstrations for the coming weekend in Prague on Old Town Square and in Brno against state funding of Czech Television and Czech Radio.
According to a STEM survey for CNN Prima News, conducted from 2 to 7 September, the government's priority should be the availability of health care, which 47 percent of people named as an absolute priority, while 21 percent expect it to improve over the next four years.
The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic decided, on the proposal of its speaker Tomio Okamura, to vote on abolishing the fees for Czech Television and Czech Radio on Saturday, 24 October 2026, at 4:36 a.m.
A restored Stern inscription was unveiled on a house on Minoritská Street in Brno; during a visit by descendants of the Stern, Wittal and Stiassni families, Stolpersteine were then laid on Hroznová Street.
The European Federation of Journalists and the European Broadcasting Union, together with other organisations, criticised the fast-tracked handling in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic of the government bill abolishing the fees for Czech Television and Czech Radio.
Hundreds of people gathered on Lesser Town Square in Prague on 23 October 2026 to protest against the government's plan to abolish the fees for Czech Television and Czech Radio; according to the police, several dozen of them tried to enter the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, and officers prevented them without detaining anyone.
During the debate on the government bill abolishing the fees for Czech Television and Czech Radio on 23 October 2026, the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Tomio Okamura, said that in his view Czech Television works against the interests of the country and the nation.
After the deadline expired on 23 October 2026, the Krajský soud v Českých Budějovicích has on record petitions to review the municipal elections in 13 municipalities of the South Bohemian Region, including Tábor, Český Krumlov and Vimperk, where, because of a petition to invalidate the vote, the inaugural council meeting will not take place by 9 November.
The Permanent Council of the Czech Bishops' Conference called on legislators to keep funding Czech Television and Český rozhlas through fees, which in its view guarantee the independence of both media.
Hundreds of people gathered on Lesser Town Square in Prague to protest the government's plan to abolish television and radio fees, which the ANO, SPD and Motorists coalition pushed through for priority first-reading debate in the Chamber of Deputies.
At the opening of the 30th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, documentary filmmaker Helena Třeštíková received the Award for Contribution to World Cinema and, in her speech, commented on the plan to abolish fees for Czech Television and Český rozhlas.
Theatres belonging to the Association of Professional Theatres and the Association of Independent Theatres joined in supporting Czech Television and Český rozhlas against the government's plan to abolish the television and radio fee.
The non-profit company Jizerská has begun producing artificial snow at the stadium in Bedřichov in the Jizera Mountains and plans to open a cross-country loop there on 21 November.
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