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Before the First World War, Hungary's borders ran well beyond today's limits. But after the war the country lost two thirds of its territory, leaving large Hungarian minority populations in neighbouring countries like Romania. Reporter Drew Leifheit visited crossed the border to Romania to visit an ethnic Hungarian village.

Two British men have set out to row the entire length of the Danube - all 2888 kilometres of it.... Insight Central Europe caught up with rower Charlie Blair, as he made a brief stop in the Hungarian capital.

The huge Gabcikovo dam on the Slovak stretch of the river was launched in 1992. At the time environmentalists warned of devastating damage and said poor construction posed a danger for people living nearby. So 10 years later, has the controversy died down? And what's been the impact on the local people?

When Slovenia and Croatia were part of Yugoslavia, internal borders didn't matter much. But now eight years after their independence, Croatia and Slovenia are still trying to work out where their border should lie. And now Croatia says it wants to create an exclusive economic zone in the eastern part of the Adriatic - a proposal not welcomed by the Slovenian government

This week the Czech Republic and Slovakia have been marking the 35th anniversary of the 1968 invasion by Soviet-led armies of the Warsaw Pact. The invasion crushed the liberal reforms known as the Prague Spring. Slovak photographer Ladislav Bielik received the 1969 World Press Photo award for his documentary series about the invasion. His photo of a screaming man baring his naked chest to a tank gun is included in the world press agency's 100 most prestigious pictures of the 20th century. But little is known about the man whose pictures of the

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has rejected plans for a Berlin-based memorial to the ethnic Germans expelled from central and eastern European countries after world war two. He fears Germany's own wartime excesses could be glossed over. A petition for the centre has been launched by the private "Federation for Expellees" to create a memorial for the estimated 12 and a half million ethnic Germans who were expelled from their homes in present-day Poland, the Czech Republic and other Eastern countries. Why shouldn't it be built in Berlin? Dr

The 3rd in our series on Central Europe's borders. This week Katy Duke heads to the east of Austria for some cross border shopping.

The 11 official languages of the European Union already make for quite a mouthful, but when a fresh batch of members states joins the EU next year - it will cost European taxpayers 1 billion euros a year just to translate all the speeches and official texts from Brussels. BUT, it also means better job prospects for translators from the candidate countries

Czechoslovakia was once home to three million ethnic Germans - known as Sudeten Germans - and the post-war expulsions remain a sore point with Austria and Germany. As one might expect, there is little understanding for a Berlin memorial in the Czech Republic - even the strongest advocates of Czech-German reconciliation say the proposal is just too contentious.

The issue of granting dual citizenship to ethnic Hungarians in the neighbouring countries is being hotly debated in Hungary following a campaign in the Northern province of Voivodina in former Yugoslavia. The Democratic Federation of Hungarians there are collecting signatures in support of their demand for dual citizenship. But State Secretary Andras Barsony says they have little chance of success