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Art looted from Jewish Holocaust victims is a yet-unclosed chapter in the history of the Czech Lands. After the Gestapo and Communist regime took their share of the artwork, the Czech government is now trying to deal with what's left, as reports.

Now it's time for this week's edition of Talking Point, and today takes a look at the transsexual community in the Czech Republic, and their search for public awareness...

In this week's edition, takes a look at an issue that's been raising a few hackles inside and outside the European Union recently, the free movement of labour after EU expansion...

And now it's time Talking Point, in which finds out about a new nation-wide campaign against child abuse...

It's time now for this week's edition of Talking Point, and today Nick Carey takes a look at the measures the Czechs are taking to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease to the Czech Republic...

In this week's edition of , delves into the topic of the position of women in the Czech workplace.

The Czech Republic can proudly lay claim to a quite unique influence on its cultural heritage: an animated early evening programme for children that has been running on Czech public television for nearly 40 years.

The statistics are alarming: 6 percent of the Czech population have diabetes, that's over six hundred thousand people. On top of that number, there are probably another two percent of diabetics who have never been diagnosed and registered. The number of diabetes patients is increasing all the time and experts estimate that in 2010, there will be over 1 million diabetes patients in the Czech Republic. In this week's Talking Point, Pavla Horakova looks at what is causing this trend and what can be done to make life easier for diabetics in the Czech Republic.

Following the fall of Communism, horrifying images hit western televisions screens of the squalid conditions of psychiatric institutions in Albania and Romania. In this week's Talking Point will be looking at how mental health care in the Czech Republic has dealt with the transition from totalitarianism to democracy. An average of 2 to 3 percent of every nation's population suffers from serious mental illness - that means that in the Czech Republic, there are over 200,000 sufferers.

The Senate is currently discussing an amendment to a law which would make spraying paint on buildings a crime punishable, in extreme cases, by up to 8 years in prison. It today's Talking Point, looks at the issue of graffiti spraying, which no visitor to Prague fails to notice.