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Two Souls,
Twin Realities
Wolfgang Deckers
All German actions in the Balkans over the last decade have been shaped by the twin spectres of re-unification and the Nazi past.

After the Reform
Wojtek Kość
New administrative regions in Poland have downgraded some cities, discouraging investment in them.

Where Time Stood Still
Sam Vaknin
Skopje, Macedonia, is a city of extremes, with an ethnic time bomb ticking away.

More Than Salami
Gusztáv Kosztolányi
Introducing Szeged, a completely balanced provincial city in Hungary.

Second to One
Brian J Požun
Maribor is striving to overcome its second-class status in Slovenia, and success is within reach.

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Bulgaria's Angelic Voices
Diane Strickland
The famed, ethereal sound of the all-female choir, Angelite, hits the UK.

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Why the Change of Heart?
Oliver Craske
Disagreements with France and Germany over the future shape of the EU lie behind the UK's sudden decision to champion Eastward enlargement.

Forging a New Kosovo
Židas Daskalovski
Albanian scholar Isa Blumi talks with CER about Kosovo's future and the forging of Kosovo's identity.

Mafioso Capitalism
Jan Čulík
More on the failure of Czech bank IPB and its links to TV Nova.

The Political Economy
of Post-Soviet Russia
Vladimir Tikhomirov
Reviewed by Sam Vaknin
An exquisite obituary of the Russia that could have been and an indictment of the Russia that is and was.

After the Rain
Sam Vaknin's book on offer from CER.

...jak Češi jednají
Jan Čulík on Czech public debate in the new Europe.

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