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Coming up in this week's edition of Insight Central Europe - amidst the heated debate over the post-war Benes Decrees and the millions of ethnic Germans who were expelled from the countries of Central Europe after World War Two, it's easy to forget that there are also many hundreds of thousands of Germans who remained in the region. We look at the German minority today in three Central European countries, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. Also this week, a public funeral is held at Vienna's central cemetery for the child victims of the Nazi euthanasia clinic Am Spiegelgrund. And we look back at how Radio Free Europe influenced a generation of Poles living under the Communist regime. All that and more in this week's Insight Central Europe.

Coming up in this week's edition of Insight Central Europe - As France recoils from the shock of Jean-Marie Le Pen's stunning electoral success, the Polish Prime Minister warns the far right is a severe threat to EU enlargement. Meanwhile, will the demise of Hungary's nationalist parties soothe tensions in Slovakia, home to a large Hungarian minority? Poland announces plans for the rebuilding of a Jewish street in Warsaw, and how an Austrian couple are trying to introduce the Waldrapp, or Bald Ibis, back into the wild. All that and more in Insight Central Europe.

In this week's edition of Insight Central Europe - as the EU hosts a Green Week in Brussels, we examine a whole host of different environmental issues in the region, learning about the first cross-border environmental protection project between Austria and Hungary on the Tisza river, why many people in Warsaw still travel out to the suburbs to collect drinking water from natural springs, an operation to remove a massive "fridge graveyard" in the Czech Republic, and a campaign to "adopt" a tree in eastern Slovakia. All that and more in Insight Central Europe.

In this week's edition of Insight Central Europe - the opposition Socialists win the first round in Hungary's elections, did Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist campaign backfire? Has the dispute over the Benes decrees let the nationalist genie out of the bottle as the Czechs gear up for their election campaign? Members of the region's large Roma minority celebrate International Day of the Roma. And Slovakia mourns the death of Ludovit Fulla, one of the country's most distinguished artists. All that and more in Insight Central Europe.

Coming up in the first edition of Insight Central Europe, we hear about the sex scandal that has rocked Poland, controversy in Austria over a new book on the life of Jesus, former Czechoslovak foreign minister Jiri Dienstbier plans to run for the post of UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Slovakia's youth exodus, and Hungary's greatest soccer legend Ferenc Puskas celebrates his 75th birthday. All that and more in Insight Central Europe.