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Budapest has again seen massive protests as the opposition party Fidesz again calls out its supporters to demand that Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany resign. But the Prime Minister is sticking to his guns, winning a confidence motion in parliament - but apologising for not facing up the countries economic woes.

The southern polish city of Krakow attracts visitors from all over the world - to its churches, narrow streets and great central square. And now there's another tourist attraction - retro communism. You can joins some Crazy Guides on a Trabant ride round Nowa Huta, a model communist city designed in the 1950s. This report by John Beauchamp:

In Slovenia, artists from 13 countries have their work on display in the capital Ljubljana for the 12th City of Women international festival of contemporary arts. The festival runs until the 10th of October. Ksenija Samardzija Matul has the details:

Last year was a double anniversary of the great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok - his 125th birthday and the 60th anniversary of his death in exile in New York in 1945. Now, the entire works of Bela Bartok are to be published by Hungary's oldest record company - Hungaroton. Gyorgyi Jakobi of Radio Budapest spoke to Hungaroton's acting manager, Mate Hollos:

In Slovakia, the government and the utility companies are steamed up over energy prices. The government promised to lower fuel and energy prices by 5 percent but some companies have just submitted tariff proposals that put the price up by an average of 15 percent as of October. Prime Minister Robert Fico is displeased and has made statements which appear to threaten the independence of the energy market regulator - a body which by law has the final say in setting energy prices. Anca Dragu reports from Bratislava:

We've made the point more than once that Slovenia is a small Central European Country - about the size of Israel or Wales. So, if you have never tasted Slovenian wine it's not because they don't make it it's just that they don't make a lot. But some Slovenian wines are winning an international reputation. The Crnko Family Winery recently took a silver medal at the San Francisco International Wine Competition for their 2005 Riesling Ice Wine. Radio Slovenia International's Srecko Trglec asked the American Ambassador to Slovenia, Thomas Robertson,

A political scandal is rocking Poland. It involves recordings made in secret and aired on an independent TV station. On the recording a high ranking politician from the ruling conservative party is heard to ask an opposition MP what she wants for switching sides. The background to this is the collapse of the coalition between conservatives, nationalists and populists in a dispute over public finances and Poland's role in the US-led mission in Afghanistan. Slawek Szefs reports:

Show trials featuring trumped up charges and fabricated confessions remain one of the strongest symbols of Communist state repression throughout the former Eastern Bloc. Czechoslovakia's most infamous show trials involved senior Communist Rudolf Slansky and resistance leader Milada Horakova, both of whom were given the death penalty. But not all defendants were so high-profile: a newly discovered recording reflects Communist Party efforts to use the courts to crush a whole class - relatively wealthy farmers.

The well known Slovenian folk group Terrafolk are not a folk group in the traditional sense. They consider the popular image of folk music as boring and twist it on its head. In 2003 they won a BBC3 World Music Audience Award. This year Terrafolk is participating in the music festival "September" which is currently underway in Slovenia's second largest city in Maribor.

This week Budapest was the scene of violent riots and Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany looked like a politician without a future. A political storm blew up over a speech, leaked to the media, in which he said the government had lied about the state of the economy.