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With the swelling number of migrants surging through Eastern Europe, calls have intensified in the Czech Republic for better EU coordination in coping with the escalating migrant crisis. On Friday Prague will host a meeting of the Višegrad Group states which should coordinate the position of the four countries on the migrant problem.

The Education Ministry is aiming to promote more sports activities for schoolchildren. To that aim, the ministry has set aside half-a-billion crowns to encourage children to participate in team sports. Teachers should also see pay rises and the ministry also wants to improve what’s on offer on cafeteria menus.

American national Kevin Dahlgren is back on Czech soil, following a ruling by the US State Department allowing his extradition. The 21-year-old is the sole suspect in a quadruple-murder of a family in Brno in May 2013; a court is now to rule on whether he will be remanded in custody.

It’s probably been a week to write off for ANO leader Andrej Babiš. He has had to intervene in the crisis surrounding Prague’s mayor; relations with his coalition partners in government appear to have deteriorated even further, and the latest public opinion polls suggest his party is losing its long standing lead. And then there was the Austrian lorry in which more than 70 immigrants apparently suffocated to death.

Zuzana Hejnová has won the Czech Republic’s first medal at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, with gold in the women’s 400 metres hurdles. Indeed, despite suffering serious injury problems throughout 2014, she has become the first athlete ever to successfully defend the world title in the event.

The Czech Republic has had a poor reputation for relegating Roma children and children with disabilities to special schools for years. However, a recent survey carried out by People in Need and Palacký University in Olomouc suggests that the situation might be gradually improving. According to the outcomes of the survey, Czech teachers are increasingly more willing to include children with various handicaps in regular classrooms. But in order to do so, they need more finances as well as more guidance from the ministry.

Prague’s mayor Adriana Krnáčová appears to have clung onto power for the moment after a tumultuous week or two in politics at Prague city hall. Key parties within the ruling coalition have fallen out and top members of the mayor’s own party, ANO, passed a motion of no support for her. The dramatic events have reflected pretty poorly on the ANO party nationally.

Czech President Miloš Zeman will next week make his second visit to China in less than a year. He is the only European Union leader travelling to Beijing for commemorations of the end of WWII – and will even attend a huge military parade. For his part, Mr. Zeman highlights China’s growing economic importance and promises new business for Czech companies.

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has called for the EU to take join action in protecting the alliance’s outer borders. Following talks with the visiting French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, Mr. Sobotka stressed the urgency of a coordinated effort to stem the growing flow of refugees, saying that failure to do so could see individual countries reinforcing their own borders and undermining the basic concept of Schengen.

Charles University in Prague has decided to open up to migrants who are seeking asylum in the Czech Republic. Four of the university’s faculties have offered to provide free tuition and accommodation to refugees who have been granted asylum and residence permits in the country and who have passed the entrance exam. I spoke to Jan Konvalinka, Vice rector of research at Charles University, and I first asked him about the reasons behind the project: