In the Shadow
of the Werewolf
Peter Hames
Markéta Lazarová is the best Czech film of all time according to one poll of critics. Why the hell has nobody heard of it?

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Memory and Forgetting
Martin D Brown
Historical amnesia and post-Cold War attitudes in the Czech Republic. FREE ebook for CER eBookclub members.

Out of Time
Dejan Anastasijević (ed)
An in-depth look at Milošević's opponents. This FREE ebook is produced by IWPR and CER.

Greasing the Wheels
Gusztáv Kosztolányi
The bribes, the theft, the orgies... Hungary's incredible oil scandal fully explained.

The Celluloid Tinderbox
Andrew James Horton (ed)
An explosive decade of Yugoslav film. This ebook is FREE.

After the Rain
Sam Vaknin
CER's controversial commentator asks: has "transition" all been for nought?

The Failure of a New History
Andrew Stroehlein
Czechs and Germans attempt to make amends. This ebook is FREE.

Damaging Discourse
Delia Dumitrica
Romania's media and Euro-Atlantic integration.

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There's Nothing
So Queer as Folk
Židas Daskalovski
CER talks to Goran Trajkoski of Macedonian ethno trio Anastasia.

All Roads Lead to Roma
Gusztáv Kosztolányi
That the Roma issue is taken seriously by the EU means that Hungarians cannot afford to bury our heads in the sand any longer.

Voting for Instability
Mel Huang
Lithuanians expressed their desire for change at the polls last week, but the results may only breed more confusion.

Duplicity Revisited
Martin D Brown
The international response to the week's developments in Yugoslavia and Israel reveals a fundamental duplicity in foreign affairs.

Here He Comes Again
Wojtek Kość
Aleksander Kwaśniewski wins a second term as Polish president, and Andrzej Olechowski mounts the stage as a new force.

(Death)Factory Town
Andrea Mrozek
The world knows it as Auschwitz, but the locals call their hometown Oświęcim. What's it like to grow up next to a deathcamp?

Scavengers and Predators
Sam Vaknin
Might destructively parasitic economic relationships be CEE's only hope?

The Uninvited: Refugees
at the Rich Man's Gate
Jeremy Harding
Reviewed by Oliver Craske
An appeal for more sane and humane immigration policies.

The outside media looking into the region:

Great Britain: Redrafting History
Oliver Craske
Was NATO responsible for the downfall of Milošević?

Germany: Re-emerging Debates
Andrea Mrozek
The problems that German politicians wish would just disappear.