Czech politics, in context.
A smart, AI-capable recording device was discovered in the Czech government's own meeting room at Strakova Academy — and stayed unreported in a drawer for weeks, with neither police nor intelligence services informed.
Czech President Petr Pavel has published the results of his annual preventive check-up at Prague's Central Military Hospital: fit for office "without exceptions", with a doctor's advice to watch his cholesterol. Mara Whitlock on why a routine lab result is a political document.
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer behind Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero, has died at 75 in a Portuguese hospital where she was treated after acute intestinal surgery, according to an announcement on her official website.
Since the Ankara summit, Czechia's two Ukraine policies have both escalated: Petr Pavel is setting deadlines in The Telegraph, and SPD-nominated defence minister Jaromír Zůna is defending a weapons-fund transfer his party chief opposes — and that he wasn't told about.
At the NATO summit in Ankara, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš admitted Czechia will not meet the alliance's spending goal this year and reframed Ukraine aid around the U.S. PURL programme, while President Petr Pavel called the change a positive signal. The two men even described the same leaders' dinner in irreconcilable ways.
PM Andrej Babiš has floated selling the state's 40% in Prague Airport for as much as 25 billion crowns. Here's what it would actually buy — and why economists are uneasy.
Andrej Babiš and Petr Pavel arrived at the same NATO summit, left the same hotel for the same dinner — in separate motorcades. Here's what the split delegation actually means, and why it matters beyond the awkward photos.