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Prime Minister Milos Zeman ended a three-day visit to Spain on Wednesday, the third in a series of official visits to European Union countries at a crucial time for his country's bid to join the EU. In February he visited Sweden, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, and shortly afterwards he boarded a plane for Belgium, which will take over in the second half of this year.

During talks in Prague on Thursday President Vaclav Havel and his Slovak counterpart Rudolf Schuster stated that their countries enjoyed a special relationship. The two neighboring states, which spent over 70 years in a federation and divorced amicably in 1993, are believed to have the closest bilateral relations in Europe. At present, the Czech Republic firmly supports Slovakia's bid to join the EU and NATO as soon as possible, both for political and economic reasons. After their divorce in 1993 the two countries set up a customs union in

It's time now for the latest edition of Central Europe Today, in which takes a look at how gambling and betting have taken off in the Czech Republic since the fall of Communism...