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Prime Minister Leszek Miller faces an uncertain future as his minority government tries to keep Poland on track for EU membership. The Czech Republic finally has a new president - former PM Vaclav Klaus. But will his self-declared "Euro-realist" vision of the EU go down well in Brussels? And will the country's coalition government survive until then? Austria's far-right Freedom Party is back in power, but already threatening to veto EU enlargement. And have Slovenian archeologists found the oldest wheel in the world?

In this week's , we look at the growing problem of human trafficking: a report from the Czech Republic, where some of the country's sex clubs are involved in the trade, and we speak to the International Helsinki Federation about human trafficking in Central Europe. Also this week, a Hungarian nuclear expert heads to Iraq as part of the weapons inspections team, and a report from the Austrian Research Centre where the UN tests material gathered in Iraq. And finally a report on Slovakia's underground hip-hop scene.

In this week's Insight Central Europe: Austria is blocking the movement of US troops through the country from Germany to Italy, and the country's defence minister says without a UN mandate for military action there can be no overflights or troop movements through Austria; tourism officials of the four Visegrad countries (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) have signed an agreement aimed at closer co-operation in the tourism industry; meanwhile, Austria is seeing a marked increase in tourists from Central and Eastern Europe; and why doesn't the best-known Czech author Milan Kundera allow his latest novels to be published in Czech?

Among the stories we look at in this week's Insight Central Europe: now that the unemployment rate in the Czech Republic has breached the ten percent psychological barrier for the first time since the fall of communism - we look at possible forecasts for the near future. Also - we look at what effect a war in Iraq could have on the economies of EU candidate countries, and find out how Hungarian are sticking to their reputation for pessimism when it comes to comparing their financial situation with other countries in the region. Those stories and

Poland asks the EU to be allowed to set its own policy on abortion - what exceptions do the other candidate countries want from Brussels? A government official in Slovakia calls for a criminal investigation into claims that Roma women have been forcibly sterilised. Across the border in Austria, a new law makes German lessons and citizenship classes compulsory for immigrants. And the story of the teenage Holocaust victim from Prague, who dreamt of flying to the Moon to escape the horrors of Earth - and whose drawing was on board the doomed space

As relations between Washington and France & Germany deteriorate over Iraq, we examine U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assertion that Europe's centre of gravity is "shifting to the east". Poland is worried about jeopardizing its traditional ties with the Arab world, while in Slovenia, the Iraq crisis is beginning to affect public support for NATO membership. Also this week, retiring Czech President Vaclav Havel makes his last ever foreign trip - to Slovakia.

In this week's Insight Central Europe - as the UN releases a new report on the plight of the Roma in Central & Eastern Europe, we discuss the findings with one of the report's authors and look at soaring unemployment among the Roma in Slovakia. Meanwhile in the Czech Republic there's some positive news: the Czech Orthodox Church has ordained its first ever Romany priest. Also in the programme, Poles begin to warm to their neighbours and a report on classical music festival in Slovenia.

In this week's - controversy in Hungary as Taszar air base prepares for the arrival of more than 3,000 Iraqi opposition members while neutral Austria debates the use of air space by U.S. war planes. The Czech parliament fails to elect a successor to President Vaclav Havel, but says it'll try again in a week's time, and the so-called Picasso of Slovakia dies at the age of 100. All that and more in this week's programme.

In this week's Insight Central Europe, we look at how outgoing Czech president Vaclav Havel is viewed by his countrymen, thirteen years after he first came to power. In Bratislava a new art exhibition called "The Dark Ages" reflects the mood of 1970s and 80s Slovakia, when an end to the communist era was not in sight. Referenda on membership are being held in several European Union candidate

As Insight Central Europe approaches its first birthday, we look back at some of the programme's highlights in 2002. An Indian man brings Czechs and Roma closer together in their own "Village of Coexistence", Hungarian author Imre Kertesz wins the Nobel Prize for Literature, why the citizens of Warsaw travel kilometres for tap water, and integration via the taste buds, we dine out on Vienna's Europa menu. All that and much more in this special edition of Insight Central Europe.