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For more than a year now Slovak authorities have been trying to acquire some 50 hectares of land on which the Korean carmaker Hyundai/Kia will build a factory. But small landowners are unhappy with the offered price and have refused to sell. They're now threatening to take the government to the Constitutional Court.

Slovak police launched Operation Hawk on Slovakia's roads on Monday morning. At the same time similar operations started in the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Hungary and Slovenia. The aim was to check on drivers, to make sure that they respect speed limits, wear a seat belt, keep their vehicle in good condition and don't drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Police patrols were also on the look out for wanted persons and stolen cars.

A new exhibition opened in the Czech Parliament building this week to commemorate the Lety concentration camp in South Bohemia. Some 1,300 Roma and Sinti were interned at Lety, which was run by Czech guards, not Germans. But sixty years on, a fierce debate is still raging over Lety.

Hungary has a new president. This week, Laszlo Solyom - an opposition candidate, won the vote ahead of the Socialist party candidate Katalin Szili. Now the Socialist Party leads the governing coalition so the election of Laszlo Solyom is a bit of a blow to the government's prestige.

This year Slovenia celebrates the 100th anniversary of Slovenian film. In 1905 the lawyer and photographer Karol Grossmann filmed people leaving church after Sunday service. It's considered to be the first Slovenian film. For filmmakers it is an important anniversary and so much is being done to celebrate it.

The European Constitution lies in tatters this week after being comprehensively ripped to shreds by voters in France and the Netherlands. The Constitution is fundamentally about adapting the EU to a Union of 25 countries - and for many sceptics, the referendums were an opportunity to express their fears about the recent enlargement. But were they justified in doing so?

The fall of communism sixteen years ago meant also the end of censorship. Before 1989, censorship was not just of thoughts and opinions critical of the communist regime. There was also censorship of western cultures and their products, including pornography. Radio Slovakia International explored the pornography industry in post-communist Slovakia:

Towards Freedom is the slogan of an exhibition which is on in Warsaw. It attracts mainly two groups of visitors: teenagers from schools and foreigners. The exhibition is a resume of Poland's history over the last two centuries, with stress on the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and the aftermath of World War Two. Addressed primarily to a foreign audience, it was first shown at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Slovenia has been a NATO member for a year now. During this time, the country has taken on some serious tasks with peace missions to a number of tense areas including Afghanistan and Kosovo. Its role was acknowledged by the NATO parliamentary assembly meeting in Ljubljana this week.

Quadrilaterale, as its name suggests, is a cooperation among the governments of four countries - Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia. It is a forum for coordinating policies and planning in many areas, most recently on tourist protection - making sure visitors have a safe holiday. Experts from these four countries assembled in Siofok by Lake Balaton, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Hungary, to see how holiday stays could be made safer.