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One of the leftover disputes from the collapse of the former Yugoslavia is the precise location of the border between Slovenia and Croatia. Talks on resolving that dispute have been held in a restaurant which just happens to sit right on top of the border. Aperitif in Slovenia, coffee in Croatia. Kzenija Samardzija from Radio Slovenia international has been checking the menu...

This year's Evens prize for intercultural education was given to the Centre of Independent Journalism in Budapest, which launched what's known as the "Roma Mainstream Media Program" in 1998. So far, 49 talented young Roma journalists have been prepared for careers in the mainstream media through an intensive 9 month training period that included both classroom and on-the-job training. Petra Hajdu of Radio Budapest talks to the director of CIJ in Budapest, Sándor Orbán.

Every year, flocks of cranes, geese and swans fly to the Netherlands and Germany, using migration corridors along the Lower Notec river valley, which cuts across mid-western Poland. A wind power farm is planned for this valley. It's an eco-friendly scheme to generate clean power for the region. But ecologists are up in arms saying the massive structures are fatal for the migrating birds.

The German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer paid a brief to the Czech Republic on Tuesday, for talks dominated by European integration. In the morning Mr Fischer attended a gathering of Czech ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry, the first ever German Foreign Minister to attend such an event.

From it's source in the Black Forest of Germany to its mouth in the Black Sea, the Danube River flows through 11 countries including Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia. And for millennia the Danube has been one of Europe's most important sources of trade, food and energy. It's also been a convenient drain for mans many pollutants. But according to the new head of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube, Phil Weller, European Union enlargement will be good for Danube water quality. He says the candidate countries have

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