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The government is due to take a position at its Monday meeting on 26 October 2026 on the deputies' draft constitutional act to enshrine the Czech koruna in the constitution, submitted by representatives of the Motorists and SPD; government legislators recommended a neutral position.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced that the coalition will not withdraw the bill to fund Czech Television and Czech Radio from the state budget instead of licence fees, and intends to propose an option of voluntary payment of the fees in the second reading in the Chamber of Deputies.
The start of operations of the Vinohrady Theatre in the Radiopalác, originally announced for 24 October 2026, has been postponed indefinitely because the occupancy approval of the hall in the basement has not yet been completed, and according to the theatre's spokeswoman Zuzana Paulusová it is not possible to estimate when the theatre will begin performing in the new premises.
According to Politico, EU member states want to reach agreement by the end of 2026 on a new loan to Ukraine worth about 45 billion euros, and Czech and Slovak representatives indicated at the October summit that they again will not take part.
The director of Czech Radio, Zavoral, said he is ready to hold a discussion with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, but that the discussion should be public.
In an interview with Novinky.cz, the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic, Miloš Vystrčil (ODS), said he would not object to cooperation between ODS and STAN in future elections, and reproached Prime Minister Andrej Babiš for "ignoring" the Senate.
Prague police said they are considering mass DNA sampling around the Klánovice Forest, where a runner was attacked with a stick on 17 September 2026; they are also pursuing other lines of inquiry and called on the man they are seeking to report to a police station.
The volume of cheap parcels from China and other non-EU countries fell by 81 percent after the introduction of the customs duty, and a further fee may be added from November.
The Praha sobě movement reached a settlement with the copyright holders of the song Diamonds, approved by the Municipal Court in Prague; its June 2026 election video has been taken down from YouTube and is to be removed from other places on the internet as well.
The chair of the STAN parliamentary group, Michaela Šebelová, filed a motion with the Mandate and Immunity Committee to open disciplinary proceedings against SPD deputy Miroslav Ševčík over a remark he made at the 21 October 2026 sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, and proposes that he be required to apologise to her publicly.
President Petr Pavel is to appoint Hlaváč army general, the highest military rank, and promote 15 more men to general, so that 16 new ranks will be awarded in total.
The agency Frontex published the results of a joint European police operation that also involved Czechia: 334 people were detained, more than 150,000 people and nearly 130,000 vehicles were checked, and tonnes of drugs, over 10.6 million cigarettes and hundreds of cars and boats were seized.
The Prague Public Transit Company is seeking 140 new trolleybuses, for which it intends to pay 2.64 billion crowns.
The director general of the Road and Motorway Directorate, Radek Mátl, said that construction of the last D6 section before Karlovy Vary, between Olšová Vrata and the city, will probably be postponed from 2026 to 2027, because landowners have challenged the legal force of the building permit over disagreement with the purchase price.
The company Diamo has asked the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office to review the conduct of the Ministry of the Environment in the Heřmanice slag heap case.
The Academic Senate of the University of Ostrava re-elected the incumbent rector Petr Kopecký for another term in the first round of a secret ballot, with 22 of 38 senators voting for him.
Foreign Minister Petr Macinka said after a cabinet meeting that he is considering reducing the number of posts at his ministry.
The General Health Insurance Company of the Czech Republic is to close its low-traffic branches, about a quarter of them.
A new private bus line, BusAir, began running from Praha hlavní nádraží to Václav Havel Airport Prague on 26 October 2026.
The City of Brno took over the multifunctional hall at the Brno exhibition grounds on 26 October 2026; according to Deník and Brněnská Drbna, work in the hall is still continuing.
The company Alza announced a pilot service delivering prescription medicines to its AlzaBox pick-up boxes in Prague and the surrounding area on the basis of the patient's power of attorney; the Ministry of Health said that the law does not yet allow mail-order dispensing of prescription medicines, while Alza maintains that the service complies with the law.
The president of Montenegro is due to visit Czechia in a week and to discuss his country's path to the European Union with President Petr Pavel.
Kupka of the ODS asked police director Vondrášek to review the procedure used when people were removed from the Chamber of Deputies; according to iDNES, the ODS is also calling for Okamura's removal.
On 26 October 2026 Prime Minister Andrej Babiš rejected a call by Czech Radio director general René Zavoral for a public negotiation on licence fees; according to ČTK and Echo24 he also advised him to resign.
Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček said in Algiers on 26 October 2026 that Czechia will probably double its imports of natural gas from Algeria from the current 200 million cubic metres; he cited a preliminary pledge from the Algerian president.
On 26 October 2026 five parties, ODS, STAN, Progresivní Pardubice, Naše Pardubice and Nowí lidovci, signed a coalition agreement in Pardubice; Ondřej Tichý is to become mayor and the winning ANO movement goes into opposition.
Several dozen people protested in front of the Prague 8 town hall on 26 October 2026 against an emerging coalition of STAN, TOP 09, ODS, the Christian Democrats and ANO, which is to push the winning 8žije grouping into opposition.
Heineken announced that it will stop brewing Březňák beer in Velké Březno in the Ústí nad Labem Region and will move production elsewhere.
People demonstrated in Prague against the participation of ODS in the city leadership; more than 5,800 people signed a petition.
František Kupka's painting Nepopisný prostor (Indescribable Space) sold at auction for 217 million crowns, a new record for the painter.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told reporters that he did not vote in the first reading because he was asleep, and that in his view the first reading means nothing.
The government approved the concession contract for completing the D35 motorway between Opatovec in the Pardubice Region and Mohelnice in the Olomouc Region; the ViAlliance35 consortium is to build the sections for CZK 71.32 billion, and the Chamber of Deputies will now consider the contract.
On 26 October 2026 a small avalanche came down in the Slovak part of the High Tatras; an 18-year-old Czech was injured in a fall on rocky terrain, and mountain rescuers carried him to the Sliezsky dom chalet.
According to a statement from its spokeswoman on 26 October 2026, the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic rejected the appeal on points of law of a man convicted of attempted murder in a shooting outside a club in Masná Street in Prague, so the 13-year prison sentence remained unchanged.
The council of the Hradec Králové Region selected RegioJet as the winner of the tender to operate regional rail transport in the southern part of the region from December 2031, with a bid one billion crowns lower than that of České dráhy.
The Road and Motorway Directorate started replacing the bearings of two bridges on the D1 motorway in the Vysočina Region while keeping traffic running, with work worth over 17 million koruna to last until mid-December.
The Horácká multifunkční aréna in Jihlava, designed by the Chybík + Krištof studio, won the main prize of the Grand Prix Architektů – National Award for Architecture, presented on Monday by Obec architektů at a ceremony in Prague.
The Hradec Králové city council approved the tender conditions for the demolition of four buildings of the former Technical Services in Třebeš, which is to make way from February 2027 for a new day centre for people with disabilities.
In the Moravian-Silesian Region, the MotýLOVE project was launched, bringing together children, students and seniors to create butterfly meadows and care for nature.
Representatives of the STAN movement, the SPOLU pro Prahu coalition and the Praha sobě group met on Monday, 26 October, to discuss a possible coalition in the capital, going over the programme and the distribution of portfolios, and planned to meet again on Tuesday, 27 October.
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