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An famous landmark in Slovenia, the Palace Hotel, is being restored after years of neglect. It was the largest hotel in the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire but eventually fell into ruin and has been closed since the days of Yugoslavia.

On Tuesday Hungarian artists, upset about pollution of the Raab River by an Austrian leather factory, gave a concert in Budapest. Around 500 people were there to hear activists claim Austria is doing nothing to prevent the pollution and to urge Hungarians to boycott Austrian products. It's reported even Wiener Schnitzel is off the menu in many Hungarian restaurants - or at the very least - it's no longer called Wiener Schnitzel.

Two years ago, three students from Warsaw, Poland - Maciek, Pawel and Agnieszka, all single and Catholic, founded Poland's first online Catholic dating service. Right now the community is 27 thousand strong and growing. Do Catholic singles in Poland have to go online to find a spouse?

The last few months have seen an increase in the number of owners in the Czech Republic selling successful companies, first established or privatised in the early 1990s. According to analysts, many privately-owned firms have reached a milestone, whereby owners now in their 50s or 60s are weighing whether to take them to the next level - or sell.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has sharply criticised private capital and managers of pension funds. He accuses them of endangering the pensions of Slovak workers.

Last week the Slovak employers' associations and trade unions said they've agreed with the Labour Minister's proposal to increase the minimum wage to 238 euros per month. Slovakia has one of the lowest guaranteed wages in the European Union but it is also among those with the lowest number of workers on the minimum age. Despite this the minimum wage is a controversial topic in Slovakia.

It might seem incredible, but an estimated one in six cars in the Czech Republic could be stolen or at least contain stolen parts. That's according to shocking new figures released by the Association for the Protection of Car Owners, or SOVA. The organisation claims there are almost half a million stolen cars on the roads. Radio Prague's Rob Cameron has the story.

Plans for constructing a massive casino complex on Slovenia's border with Italy have opened up a rift between some residents and local authorities. Some groups are even calling for a nationwide referendum on it.

They may not yet be global brands but 'Prayer Book' apricot jam and 'Novice Brothers' pickled mushrooms are just two of the products from the Benedictine monks of Tyniec abbey near Krakow. The Benedictine order has a tradition at Tyniec reaching back one thousand years but their commercial activities are something new.

Studying abroad has many advantages: one gets to know foreign languages and cultures and the students have the opportunity to select the university they believe will best take care of their needs and prepare them for their future careers. More and more Slovenes are deciding to study abroad either at an undergraduate or postgraduate level, hoping for a good job once they return to Slovenia. But is it really easy for them to find appropriate employment in Slovenia?