Claims have emerged that current EU president Hungary is trying use the police and media to silence dissenters, writes a Crikey correspondent in Berlin.
Hungary
Democracy — and the Greens — show the way in Hungarian election
The Hungarian people have gone to the polls for the sixth time since the 1990 shift from communism to democracy. Er, to capitalism. Anna Saulwick reports from Hungary.
How a picnic brought down the Berlin Wall
On 19 August, 1989, 700 East Germans walked freely across their Soviet-controlled borders and into Hungary for some good food, wine and a spot of political revolution.
Japan? No. Try Russia, and the sick men of Eastern Europe
Every economy in the East is tanking: with Russia and the Ukraine probably the most damaged, writes Glenn Dyer.
