Tuesday

Chronicle of October 27, 2026

40 entries

• According to iROZHLAS.cz, documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic show that Jan Zahradil worked as an external analyst in the political planning department, although Minister Petr Macinka said in May that he had a different role in mind for him.

  iROZHLAS · FORUM 24
  

• In Žďár nad Sázavou, a bus carrying passengers collided in the morning with a car whose driver blew almost two per mille of alcohol.

  iROZHLAS · Novinky.cz · Jihlavská Drbna
  

• A petition to invalidate the elections or the voting in the town of Větrný Jeníkov in the Jihlava area was delivered to the court on 23 October 2026; the inaugural council meeting is not held until the court rules if the petition challenges the elections or the voting as a whole, and the court has twenty days to decide.

  Jihlavská Drbna · Deník: Vysočina
  

• In Jeseník, after the 2026 municipal elections, the PRO Jeseník movement and ANO formed a coalition, and Antálek is to become mayor.

  iDNES.cz · Hanácká Drbna
  

• The Ministry of Transport sent a draft government regulation for inter-ministerial comment under which tolls for lorries over 3.5 tonnes are to rise from mid-2027, for vehicles over 12 tonnes by 18.5 percent on motorways and by 26.6 percent on first-class roads.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · iROZHLAS
  

• The children's ombudsman wrote to MPs that the change in the funding of Czech Television and Czech Radio may endanger programming for children in public service media, and urged them to consider the impact on children.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• The police published the results of summer checks from mid-June to mid-September, which found 606 children under the influence of alcohol, 38 of them under 15; last year the figure was 520.

  ČTK / České noviny · Echo24
  

• The Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) declared a strike alert, joining the strike action over the funding of Czech Television and Czech Radio, and fears for the independence of culture.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• The Duha Movement announced that its monitoring confirmed the birth of wolf cubs this year in the Ore Mountains, the Jeseníky, the Beskids and the Broumov region.

  ČTK / České noviny · Ekolist.cz
  

• The Union of Public Prosecutors warned against the change to appeal proceedings in criminal cases approved by the government on 26 October 2026; it says it risks so-called court ping-pong, with a case repeatedly sent back and forth between the first-instance and appeal courts.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy

• Students of Masaryk University, led by the initiative Média nedáme MUNI, declared a strike alert over the planned change to the funding of Czech Television and Czech Radio.

  ČTK / České noviny · Brněnská Drbna
  

• The Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech Republic warned that the extraordinary tax on refineries could endanger the whole of Czech industry.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz
  

• Culture Minister Oto Klempíř announced that the ministry will dismiss Petr Dvořák, the former director of Czech Television, as head of the board of the Státní fond audiovize, saying they differ in their view of how the fund is managed.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24 · Novinky.cz
  

• After talks with representatives of STAN and Spolu, Adam Scheinherr, leader of Praha sobě, said his group accepts two seats on the Prague council instead of the three originally requested, along with responsibility for transport and property, but has not yet confirmed joining the coalition.

  ČTK / České noviny · Pražský deník
  

• According to iDNES.cz, repairs of the railway line from Kostelec to Slavonice in the Vysočina Region are to begin in 2028.

  iDNES.cz: Jihlava
  

• The game studio Warhorse, creator of the Kingdom Come series, said it is dealing with a cyberattack and is determining its impact.

  Echo24 · Novinky.cz

• In Hustopeče nad Bečvou, the second stage of remediation after the benzene train accident of 28 February 2025 has begun; the contract worth CZK 316.6 million went to the company Dekonta, and according to the state enterprise Diamo the work is to last 17 months.

  Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz
  

• The organisation Ropid announced that on Wednesday 28 October 2026 Prague public transport lines will run to Sunday timetables, and on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 October the metro and most bus and trolleybus lines will use half-holiday timetables with slightly longer intervals, while trams will run as usual.

  iDNES.cz · Pražský deník
  

• In Olomouc, hundreds of students gathered in front of the Faculty of Law of Palacký University to protest against the abolition of television and radio fees and the transfer of the funding of Czech Television and Czech Radio to the state budget.

  iDNES.cz · Deník: Olomoucký kraj
  

• Representatives of STAN and Spolu met teams of Praha sobě and the Pirates in Prague over a possible city hall coalition; STAN leader Petr Hlaváček said that working groups on the programme will meet until the end of next week and that he then wants to announce the outcome of the post-election talks.

  ČTK / České noviny · Blesk.cz
  

• Chamber of Deputies Speaker Tomio Okamura (SPD) received a delegation of Alternative for Germany (AfD) including its Saxon chairman Jörg Urban; according to Okamura the topics included the railway tunnel between Prague and Dresden and the navigability of the Elbe.

  ČTK / České noviny · Hospodářské noviny
  

• In a speech to foreign diplomats ahead of the 28 October public holiday, President Petr Pavel called increasing pressure on Russia, tightening sanctions and further strengthening support for Ukraine a political necessity.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz
  

• According to representatives of professional organisations who met Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, the government is to approve the Státní fond audiovize budget for next year on Monday 2 November; it amounts to 2.4 billion crowns, of which 1.9 billion comes from the state.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• The executive council of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) dissolved the local association Plzeň-Slovany over a dispute about the post-election arrangement in the city district, where four of the party's eight councillors joined a coalition with ANO; members have three months to move to another association, and a new association, Plzeň – Nové Slovany, is to be set up.

  FORUM 24 · iDNES.cz: Plzeň
  

• After a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies defence committee, Defence Minister Jaromír Zůna (SPD) said that the first ten CV90 vehicles, which the army had originally been due to receive this year for troop trials, will be delivered during next year; according to the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic, the contract for four Spyder All-in-One systems could be signed around the turn of this year and next.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy
  

• Tomio Okamura, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and chairman of the SPD movement, said in an interview with Aktuálně.cz on 27 October 2026 that he would agree with a proposal to abolish Czech Television and Czech Radio, and ODS chairman Martin Kupka described his words as a sign of an effort to weaken public service media.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy
  

• Červený announced on 27 October 2026 that 134 of the Ministry of the Environment's 3,500 jobs will be abolished by next year.

  Ekolist.cz · Deník.cz
  

• The InterSucho project warned on 27 October 2026 that last week's rain saturated only the surface layer of soil and that drought persists at depth in Czechia.

  iROZHLAS · Ekolist.cz
  

• The Czech Statistical Office reported on 27 October 2026 that research and development expenditure in Czechia rose last year by 12 billion to 158.8 billion koruna.

  ČTK / České noviny · Parlamentní listy
  

• Deputy David Pražák announced on 27 October 2026 that he had left the ANO movement and would sit in the Chamber of Deputies as an independent.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS
  

• The trade unions of the National Theatre drama company declared a strike alert on 27 October 2026 over the planned change in the funding of public service media.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24
  

• On 27 October 2026, representatives of STAN and Spolu met teams of Praha sobě and the Czech Pirate Party in Prague and handed the Pirates a modified offer of coalition cooperation that provides for one seat on the council with responsibility for property and housing.

  Echo24 · Novinky.cz
  

• The coalition in Brno's Kohoutovice district elected outgoing deputy mayor Eva Sychrová as mayor, replacing Jakub Hruška after his election as Mayor of Brno.

  Deník: Jihomoravský kraj · Brněnská Drbna
  

• An inmate at Pilsen's Bory Prison attacked guards overnight, with three of them having to be treated in hospital.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz · Plzeňská Drbna
  

• Prague 10 signed a coalition agreement between ODS, STAN with Vlasta and the Christian Democrats, and Prague 10 for Itself with the Greens, under which mayor Martin Valovič (ODS) continues to lead the district.

  Novinky.cz · Pražský deník · Pražský patriot
  

• The Prague Institute of Planning and Development published a study showing that foreigners make up a quarter of Prague's population and their number could exceed 600,000 by 2050.

  Pražský patriot · Novinky.cz · Pražský deník
  

• The Olomouc High Court rejected an appeal by lawyer Kárim Titz against the freezing of more than 1.2 million koruna in his bank accounts in the bitcoin case and upheld the ruling of the Brno Regional Court.

  Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz · Blesk.cz

• Police in the Sokolov area opened criminal proceedings over an October 2022 incident on the D6 motorway in which a van driver allegedly repeatedly forced another car out of its lane and made it stop, with the prosecutor now considering reclassifying the case as dangerous threatening.

  Novinky.cz · Deník: Karlovarský kraj

• Czech and Slovak prime ministers Andrej Babiš and Robert Fico unveiled sculptor Vladimír Durbák's statue Medzi nami, symbolising Czech-Slovak friendship, in the garden of the Úřad vlády České republiky.

  ČTK / České noviny · Blesk.cz · Echo24 · ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy · iROZHLAS

• Students of the Czech Technical University in Prague and the University of Chemistry and Technology, along with students in Ostrava, Brno and Liberec, protested against a proposed change in the funding of Czech Television and Czech Radio.

  Blesk.cz · iROZHLAS · Seznam Zprávy · ČTK / České noviny

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