Friday

Chronicle of October 30, 2026

34 entries

• The Dutch group Ahold Delhaize, which operates Albert stores in Czechia, announced an agreement to buy Tesco's businesses in Czechia and Slovakia for about 1.7 billion euros (roughly 41.4 billion crowns); the deal is subject to approval by regulators and is to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2027.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24 · iDNES.cz · Novinky.cz

• Česká spořitelna reported a net profit of 22.2 billion crowns for the first three quarters of 2026, up 16.7 percent year on year; the bank's operating profit rose by 13.8 percent to 28.2 billion crowns.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy
  

• The Slovak parliament announced that the first Award for Czech-Slovak Mutuality will go to former presidents Miloš Zeman and Rudolf Schuster; the speakers of the two parliaments, Tomio Okamura and Richard Raši, are to present it in Martin.

  ČTK / České noviny · FORUM 24

• Bus route 131 in Prague's Hanspaulka district made its last run on the Hradčanská – U Matěje – Bořislavka route, with trolleybus line 51 of the Prague Integrated Transport taking over service from 31 October.

  Pražský patriot · iDNES.cz, Praha

• The Czech economy grew by 1.6 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2026, according to a preliminary estimate by the Czech Statistical Office.

  Novinky.cz · ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz · Novinky.cz
  

• A petition and the initiative Zachraňme Krkonoše called on the Minister of the Environment to remove Petr Moravec, director of Krkonoše National Park, while the mountains were flooded with signs criticising his leadership.

  iDNES.cz · Deník.cz

• The Škoda Auto group announced that it produced 856,400 cars in the first three quarters of the year, up 2.3 percent year-on-year, and increased its operating profit by 7.4 percent to 1.923 billion euros.

  Seznam Zprávy · iROZHLAS · Echo24 · Hospodářské noviny · Ekonomický deník
  

• Temelín Nuclear Power Station has begun switching from Russian Tvel fuel to fuel from American company Westinghouse, whose first assemblies will be loaded into the first unit's reactor during the current outage, with the plant also completing its transition to an eighteen-month fuel cycle.

  Novinky.cz · Blesk.cz · Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy · E15 · Ekonomický deník · Budějcká Drbna

• Prague City Hall has convened the Prague City Council's inaugural session for 5 November, but due to unfinished coalition talks the meeting is expected to be adjourned until the following week.

  Pražský deník · Pražský patriot

• The Minister for Sport, Prevention and Health, Boris Šťastný, sent the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) an official protest against its decision allowing Russian hockey teams to immediately return to international competitions.

  Novinky.cz · ČTK / České noviny · ČTK / České noviny · Echo24 · FORUM 24
  

• Plzeň Zoo has for the second time successfully reared offspring of the rare spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides).

  Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Novinky.cz

• At a sorting line near Prague, the body of an unidentified woman with numerous tattoos was found, and police are asking the public for help identifying her.

  Pražská Drbna · Pražský deník

• Veterinary inspectors together with the Police of the Czech Republic discovered more than a tonne of food of unknown origin at two sellers in Prague's Pražská tržnice market, who now face high fines.

  Pražský deník · Pražský patriot

• The Josef Kajetán Tyl Theatre in Plzeň will premiere the Irish tragicomedy The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge on 31 October, directed by Adam Doležal and translated by Martin Hilský.

  Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Novinky.cz
  

• An explosion occurred in the demilitarisation zone of the Fábrica de Municiones de Granada munitions plant in Spain, owned by Czechoslovak Group, injuring two people with minor hearing damage.

  Seznam Zprávy · E15 · Deník.cz · Echo24

• Police reopened a case from October 2022 in which the same man allegedly aggressively attacked the occupants of another vehicle on the D6 motorway, after he was charged with assaulting a woman on the same motorway in front of her eight-year-old daughter.

  Echo24 · Deník.cz

• The leader of the SPD movement, Tomio Okamura, insists on abolishing licence fees for Czech Television and Czech Radio and rejects replacing them with any form of tax.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz
  

• The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned the ban on Russian ice hockey national teams competing in IIHF international tournaments, allowing them to take part even in the January Women's U18 World Championship in Ostrava-Poruba, a decision opposed by both the IIHF and the Czech ice hockey federation.

  Novinky.cz · Echo24 · Novinky.cz
  

• ČEZ Group will raise electricity prices by 3.5 percent and gas prices by 6.5 percent from January 2027 for 1.6 million customers with indefinite-term contracts.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · ČT24 · Novinky.cz · Hospodářské noviny · Echo24

• The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled on Russia's return to international ice hockey competitions, which, according to the President of the Czech Ice Hockey Association Alois Hadamczik, threatens the participation of European countries, including Czechia, in the World Championship.

  iROZHLAS · iDNES.cz

• Publisher New Look Media, owned by Miloš Štěpař, will take over publishing the Czech editions of Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan magazines from 1 January 2027, after Mafra ended its licensing agreement with Hearst Magazines International.

  MediaGuru · Médiář

• In a one-day strike by employees of Czech Radio and Czech Television, organised by the Veřejnoprávně initiative against the government's proposal to abolish television and radio licence fees, 1,340 employees and freelancers of Czech Radio will take part on Tuesday.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz
  

• Police charged former ANO MP Margita Balaštíková in connection with suspected interference in inspections by the regional public health station in Zlín; three people are being prosecuted in the case in total, and Balaštíková has repeatedly denied guilt.

  ČT24 · ČTK / České noviny
  

• The Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic received 16 complaints and petitions concerning the Senate elections, including one from Radek Černý (ODS), who missed advancing to the second round in the Žďár nad Sázavou district by a single vote; the court's election panel must decide by 19 November.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz

• In the local referendum in Břidličná in the Bruntál area, ordered by the Regional Court in Ostrava, 923 of 1,041 voters opposed the town's cooperation on building wind power plants; turnout was 37 percent and, according to the preparatory committee's representative, the result is binding.

  Novinky.cz · ČT24
  

• The Občané pro Budějovice movement and STAN announced that they will not enter a coalition with the winning Naše Česko movement in České Budějovice, which, according to Mayor Dagmar Škodová, will likely end up in opposition.

  iDNES.cz · Budějcká Drbna

• MP Jindřich Rajchl (SPD) clashed sharply with KDU-ČSL deputy chairman Benjamin Činčila during a debate on the CNN Prima NEWS programme 360° about scrapping television and radio licence fees, calling Czech Television's external contractors 'parasites'.

  Parlamentní listy · FORUM 24

• A fire in a high-rise building in Olomouc caused damage of more than three million crowns, with one person inhaling smoke fumes.

  Hanácká Drbna · Novinky.cz

• Police in Zlín detained a 19-year-old foreigner suspected of rape and theft.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz

• Hygienists tracked down part of a batch of almonds contaminated with botulinum toxin, sold between July and September in Makro stores, in confectionery in Prague 1, and warned consumers not to eat them.

  Pražský deník · Pražský patriot

• The Karlovy Vary Region and the Ústí nad Labem Region signed a memorandum of cooperation on modernising secondary school teaching using artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

  Karlovarská Drbna · ČRo Karlovy Vary · iDNES.cz: Karlovy Vary

• A three-day carp harvest at the Vrkoč pond near Ivaň in the Brno area confirmed that this year's drought has made the carp smaller and their price will rise slightly before Christmas.

  Brněnská Drbna · iDNES.cz: Brno

• Eight companies submitted bids by 30 October 2026 in the public tender for building a small hall next to the ice hockey stadium in Olomouc, and according to the deputy mayor for investment the lowest bid is 266 million crowns, or 82 percent of the contract's estimated value.

  Hanácká Drbna · Deník: Olomoucký kraj
  

• In České Budějovice, the groups HOPB/STAN, ANO, Czech Pirate Party and Společně pro Budějovice began talks on a new coalition that would hold 26 of 45 council seats without the winning Naše Česko movement led by regional governor Martin Kuba.

  Zdopravy.cz · Novinky.cz · ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · ČT24 · Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy
  

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