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In this week's , Poles head to the ballot box for the country's EU referendum, as the final leg of the Czech referendum campaign gets underway. We ask why the Slovak government has decided to introduce doctor's fees and increase the cost of prescriptions. Meanwhile in neighbouring Austria, strikes are held across the country in protest at the government's plans to reform the pension system. And as we hear in this week's programme, the thorny problem of pension reform is a region-wide issue.

In this week's Insight Central Europe - with just a week to go before Poles go to the polls in the country's EU referendum, the Catholic Church does a sharp U-turn on EU membership, but will the Polish people say "YES" on June 7-8? As 190 countries approve the world's first international treaty against smoking, we ask Slovak smokers what they think, and also pay a trip to Slovenia, which introduced tough anti-smoking measures last year. And looking back at the "unknown Holocaust" of Central Europe's Roma in World War Two.

17 Central European heads of state gathered in Salzburg this week with a very resonant agenda - "Beyond Enlargement - the Future of Central Europe in the larger Europe" was their rallying point. They've been taking stock of the past, sketching out the new, political situation in the heart of the Continent, and discussing developments in Central Europe resulting from EU enlargement. In this week's program, we'll look at some of these developments and hear about the issues that've been dominating the summit.

In this week's - the EU Monitoring Centre on racism and xenophobia expresses alarm at the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe - we speak to the Czech Jewish community about the problem. The suicide in Vienna of a notorious Polish Mafia leader sends shock waves through the Polish political system. Slovakia has some of the strongest anti-drug legislation in the region, but in reality the laws are frequently ignored. Hungary says the PAKS nuclear power station is safe, despite a recent radioactive leak. And members of Austria's Habsburg family ask

In this week's - the U.S. hands Poland leadership of stabilisation troops in one of Iraq's three military zones, but how will the move be received in Brussels? We ask how much Central Europe stands to gain from supporting the U.S. over Iraq. From Slovakia, a report about the preparations - or lack of - for the EU referendum on May 16th, and a comparison with the Czech campaign. And Slovenia's new EU-funded motorway won't be ready in time for accession in 2004. All that and more in this week's ICE.

In this week's Insight Central Europe we look at some of the main stories in the region. The Supreme Court in Vienna has said asylum seekers in Austria must be fed and housed by the state for the full length of their asylum procedure - we find out what this means for refugees in Austria. Staying with that issue, Poland is busy modernising its border crossing facilities but is also trying not to create the impression among its eastern neighbours of becoming part of fortress Europe. Abortion is being hotly debated in Slovakia at the moment; the Christian

In this week's Insight Central Europe - the European Union voices grave concerns about drug use in the 10 candidate countries; we visit a methadone substitution clinic in Prague and speak to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for a region-wide view. Poland signs a US$3.5 billion contract for F-16 jet fighters - the biggest defence deal by a former Warsaw Pact member - as America reveals plans to establish a military base in Slovenia. And also this week, the authorities in Hungary admit an incident at the Paks nuclear power

Coming up in this week's Insight Central Europe, leaders of 10 future EU members meet in Athens for a landmark signing ceremony, ICE's Kerry Skyring reports from the Greek capital. Hungary says "YES" to the EU, but only 46 percent of Hungarians actually voted. And what - if anything - will EU accession mean for a small Czech business? Also this week, U.S. President George W. Bush invites Poland to help organise a "rolling dialogue" on the future of Iraq, as Slovenia launches an aid operation in the country in a joint initiative with Austria.

In this week's Insight Central Europe, seven Central and Eastern European NATO candidates promise to help repair the U.S.-Europe rift over Iraq, as Slovakia issues a temporary ban on the forced repatriation of asylum seekers to Iraq. We travel to Austria's southern province of Carinthia where some students at a secondary school are getting an unusual education - they're being taught in four different languages. And also this week, candidate countries call for the rotating EU presidency to be maintained.

In this week's Insight Central Europe: as Czech Romanies continue to seek asylum in the west, thousands of Romanies from Slovak have been moving to the Czech Republic. One of the most critically acclaimed contemporary CDs in Slovakia showcases the music of the poorest of the country's Roma, the inhabitants of slum-like