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The stately "Narodni Dùm" building in Prague's Vinohrady district resounded with accordions at the weekend, as the second annual European accordion festival got underway. was there and brings back this report:

Tourists who came to Prague in the last two years may have been disappointed to find one of the most prominent monuments closed for visitors. The steel lookout tower on Petrin Hill was under reconstruction. First built 111 years ago for the Czech Jubilee Exhibition, the Czech version of the famous Eiffel Tower is offering a magnificent view of Prague once again. Pavla Horakova reports.

On Sunday evenings trains and buses going from Bratislava to Prague are crammed with young Slovaks. An increasing number of them are working and living in the Czech Republic and heading home only on weekends. What is behind this migration wave and why are so many Slovaks choosing to settle in Prague?

The dispute over the post-war expulsion of two and a half million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia was reinvigorated on Sunday, after the head of the Landsmannschaft - the largest organisation representing Sudeten Germans - appeared on a Czech TV discussion programme. Landsmannschaft chairman Bernt Posselt confirmed that plans were underfoot to open an office in Prague, a delicate announcement given the simmering dispute over the post-war expulsion and possible compensation. Earlier my colleague Rob Cameron spoke to the BBC's Petr Brod, a Czech

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The Czech police are currently working on a project aimed at teaching officers how to treat members of ethnic minorities. The project also involves integrating members of minority groups into the police force. Czech officers are cooperating with their British counterparts who have decades of experience with different minorities. Radio Prague spoke about the project with the Czech Human Rights Commissioner Jan Jarab.