Don't Touch That Dial
A new Czech TV chief sparks a labour dispute that turns into the biggest political battle the country has seen in a decade.

Dead Air Jan Čulík TV journalists have manipulated public discontent to gain political support.	Made-for-TV Revolution Andrew Stroehlein Politics and the media make strange bedfellows, but in this case, they combined forces to fool a nation, and the world.
How to Get Ahead in TV Journalism James Partridge Walking through the crowds on Wenceslas Square, I was watching a demonstration against a political party, not for Czech TV.

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Slovenia's Success
Brian J Požun
How Slovenia went from the brink of war to star student of the EU in just a few short years.

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

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

The Celluloid Tinderbox
Andrew James Horton (ed)
An explosive decade of Yugo film. FREE!

After the Rain
Sam Vaknin
Has "transition" all been for nought?

The Failure of a New History
Andrew Stroehlein
Tense Czecho-German relations. FREE!

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The Post-Nice Syndrome
Ivana Gogova
The Nice Summit is something we all wanted for the sake of clarity, but its outcome is far from lucid.

Ten Years After
Bernhard Seliger
Did the West prolong the survival of Socialism in East Germany?

Lithuania's Own-goal Politics
Mel Huang
Recent political maneuvering may threaten Lithuania's integration into the EU and NATO.

The Pettifogger Procurators
Sam Vaknin
The diplomatic corps are generally corrupt and inept. And no one cares.

Author Henryk Grynberg

Z księgi rodzaju Reviewed by Christina Manetti Grynberg's new poetry anthology speaks of loss and survival. Recording a Lost World Reviewed by Christina Manetti Grynberg's Memorbuch paints a complex portrait of the Polish-Jewish publisher Adam Bromberg.

Social Costs of Transformation
Reviewed by Steven Saxonberg
Jan Adam's look at the effects of economic change on living standards in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.

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Great Britain: Zoran and Göran
Oliver Craske
What challenges face Serbian prime minister-designate Zoran Đinđić and new EU president Göran Persson in 2001?

Germany: Who's the Boss?
Andrea Mrozek
Germany eyes the Czech TV crisis and Poland's EU dreams.