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Web Junkies, currently screening at the One World festival of human rights documentaries in Prague, is a startling portrait of how China deals with teens hooked on online games. Indeed, it was the first country to classify internet addiction as a clinical disorder and has set up 400 treatment centres.

Widespread international condemnation of Russia’s intrusion into Ukraine has been replaced by controversy over how the democratic world should respond to the military occupation of Crimea. While the US is pushing for tough punitive measures against Moscow, EU foreign ministers are divided over the question of sanctions, and a similar dispute has now appeared in the Czech government.

The One World festival of human rights documentaries opened in Prague on Monday night with the world premiere of Miners Shot Down. A disturbing film, it maps a police massacre of striking workers at the Marikana mine in South Africa in 2012 that left 34 people dead.

The Czech government has voiced strong condemnation of Russia’s intrusion into Ukraine calling military action on the territory of a foreign state unsubstantiated and a breach of international law. Speaking after a meeting of the National Security Council on Sunday, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said Russia’s actions in Crimea were a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and the Czech Republic was ready to support a clear signal from the EU that this was unacceptable.

The tug-of-war continues over one of the most ambitious construction projects ever imagined, the building of a canal linking three of Europe’s mightiest rivers – the Elbe, the Oder and the Danube. It’s a pet project of President Miloš Zeman, who this week unveiled an exhibition devoted to it at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. However both the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Green Party have reasserted their opposition to the idea, saying it would have catastrophic consequences for the environment.

The long and bitter dispute between the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the European association of similar agencies came to a head on Wednesday when the Czechs announced they were leaving the Europe-wide network. Both sides quote several reasons behind the rift but ideological as well as personal animosities seem to be at the core of the squabble.

The 2014 One World festival of human rights documentaries, which gets underway in Prague on Monday, will showcase over 100 films from more than 50 states around the world. The theme of the 16th edition of the festival is work. Ahead of the curtain raiser, the director of One World, Hana Kulhánková, explained why the organisers chose that subject – and shared some tips as to what films to catch.

Czech President Miloš Zeman addressed the European Parliament on Wednesday morning in a speech anticipated to be far more pro-EU than that of his predecessor Václav Klaus. In that respect he delivered. At the same time, he was also critical, pulling no punches when it came to criticizing EU red tape, nonsensical directives, and failures to agree on common policy.

The government’s flagship legislative proposal for a new civil service law is being scrutinized in parliament on Wednesday. But while some of the main lines have been sketched out, a lot of the details are still up in the air.

With three months to go to polling the last major Czech political party, the Civic Democrats, today announced its list of candidates and priorities for European Parliaments elections. As the biggest winners last time round and in the wake of disastrous parliamentary elections last October, the ODS has a lot at stake in the May contest.