Slovakia

Plus, even more gas in Turkmenistan and Slovakia ties euro rescue to early elections.

Plus, killers of Kyrgyz journalist convicted and a Georgian tycoon calls out Saakashvili.

Do the Visegrad Four really have anything in common anymore?

Health care financing in post-communist Central Europe is an inherently political issue that can even topple governments.

Plus, the Slovak premier barely survives a showdown and Hungary’s red sludge company is ordered to pay up.

Central European countries’ hands-off approach to the troubled euro zone could backfire.

The current Slovak government’s only big success – making public all state business contracts – looks set to be significantly watered down.

“Everything that is not permitted is forbidden” – this totalitarian maxim is only now fading from view on the streets in much of Europe.

Statues and monuments are an uncanny guide to a people’s vices, grievances, and insecurities.