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As Insight Central Europe approaches its first birthday, we look back at some of the programme's highlights in 2002. An Indian man brings Czechs and Roma closer together in their own "Village of Coexistence", Hungarian author Imre Kertesz wins the Nobel Prize for Literature, why the citizens of Warsaw travel kilometres for tap water, and integration via the taste buds, we dine out on Vienna's Europa menu. All that and much more in this special edition of Insight Central Europe.

In this week's Insight Central Europe, we look at the question of why so many of the most talented and best-educated Slovaks prefer to live in the Czech Republic. The European Union has just invited ten candidate countries to join - what happens next? And referendums on joining the EU in those countries may not prove plain sailing: we learn what the Polish government is planning to do to encourage the Poles to vote 'yes'. In Hungary an advertisement in which a Santa Claus visits a school and removes his outfit to reveal he is a Romany has caused

This week's program comes from the Danish capital Copenhagen, the scene of the historic European Union summit which decided about the accession of ten mainly ex-communist countries. We hear the views of analysts, politicians and negotiators, and look at how joining the EU will change the lives of central Europe's citizens.

Denmark presents its "final offer" to EU candidate countries - will they accept it? Polish farmers are certainly unhappy with what's being served up in Copenhagen next week. The Czech Republic and Slovakia look at ways to create a joint air force, Slovenia's prime minister Janez Drnovsek becomes the country's new president, and a Czech-Slovak co-production - Nicholas Winton - the Power of Good - wins an International Emmy Award. All that and more in this week's Insight Central Europe.

Coming up in this week's Insight Central Europe, the European investment bank says 500 billion Euro are needed to bring the infrastructure in the EU candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe up to the EU average. Roads, Rail water and energy all need massive investment. Admittedly the forecast growth in the transport business in EU candidate countries is huge. The consultancy firm A.T. Kearney reported this week that it's currently growing by around 14% a year - and will gather more steam after liberalisation and privatisation - but Central

Coming up in this week's Insight Central Europe - NATO held its first ever summit behind the old Iron Curtain this week to take decisions that have profoundly altered the Western military alliance. The summit in Prague expanded NATO's membership into what was once Soviet territory and approved a strategic shift in its military focus toward new threats from terrorism and rogue states.

Corruption, elections, NATO... and the return of the salmon - all this and more in

Coming up in this week's Insight Central Europe - At what point should the European Union finally close its doors and declare itself complete? Bulgaria & Rumania are pretty well assured entry in 2007, but do the Balkans or the Ukraine and Belarus "belong" to the EU?

Coming up in this week's Insight Central Europe - how free is the media in Central Europe? The first "media freedom index" throws up some surprising results: the Czech Republic comes last, far below Poland and Hungary, while Slovenia comes out top. Also in the program: a World Reborn - an American photographer documents Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe, and the graves in Poland that no-one visits on All Souls Day.