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Hockey fans at the opera? Believe it or not Czechs are producing an opera about their 1998 hockey victory at the winter Olympics in Nagano. Democratic presidential frontrunner John Kerry and his distant relations in Europe: the American who is so popular three European states are laying claim to his ancestors. Czech chefs give the public a taste of the best -and demand recognition! And, the price of a condom rocks Parliament. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Vaclav Klaus made his maiden voyage to Brussels as Czech President on Thursday, for talks with the head of the European Commission Romano Prodi and other senior officials. Mr Klaus - described by some as Eurosceptic and by himself as Eurorealist - used the occasion to air his strident views on EU integration, although he did tone them down somewhat for his European audience.

All Czech dailies carry photos of Czech President Vaclav Klaus and European Commission President Romano Prodi who met yesterday in Brussels to discuss issues of European Union enlargement and the future of its financing.

The Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, has said he is satisfied with the outcome of Thursday's talks he held with senior European Union officials during his brief visit to Brussels. Mr Klaus told reporters that he had discussed the risks of speedy European integration and the future and financing of the EU with European Commission President Romano Prodi, the head of the European Parliament Pat Cox and the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana. Thursday's trip was Mr Klaus's first visit to EU institutions in his capacity as Czech president.

U.S. presidential hopeful John Kerry's overwhelming victory in Super Tuesday makes the front pages of all the dailies today. The elaborately coiffured Democrat - who reportedly has some Czech blood running through his veins - is shown kissing his wife and daughters after winning nine out of ten states in Tuesday's primaries.

The Czech Republic is the fastest growing market for call centres in Europe at an annual rate of 20 percent. With advanced telecommunications networks, highly educated labour force, and good geographical location in the heart of Europe, the Czech market seems to have a great potential for the call-centre business.

For the last four or five years the Czech Republic has, like the other nine countries joining the European Union on May 1, been very busy adopting some 80,000 pages of EU legislation, covering everything from waste disposal to the supervision of abattoirs. But with just two months to go before accession, has the Czech Republic managed to make all the necessary preparations, or - at this late stage - is there still more to do? That's a question we put to Ivo Slosarcik, who works at the Prague-based think tank Europeum.

My guest in this week's One on One is Pavel Telicka, recently nominated as the Czech Republic's first ever European Commissioner. Mr Telicka, currently Czech Ambassador to the EU, certainly has the experience for the job; he was the man who led the accession negotiations on behalf of the Czech government. But his nomination follows an embarrassing few days for the Czech Republic: he was only asked to do the job after the government's first choice, former Environment Minister Milos Kuzvart, changed his mind at the last minute, prompting the Prime

All the Czech papers lead with Monday's shocking murder of a teacher who was stabbed by his student in the east Bohemian town of Svitavy. The Academy Awards that were held in Los Angeles early on Monday morning CET also make the front pages, with the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King emerging as the clear winner of the night with a record eleven Oscars. But it was not a lucky night for the Czech film industry as Zelary, the Czech nominee in the Foreign Film category, came close but not close enough, the papers report.

The situation in Haiti, where the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of a multi national force, fills the front pages of all Czech dailies. "The fall of a dictator", reads the lead headline in today's Mlada Fronta Dnes reporting that Haiti today is a mixture of euphoria and chaos. Closer to home, the situation in eastern Slovakia, where the Roma minority has been looting shops in protest of lowered social benefits, remains at the centre of attention.