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The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary are all moving away from compulsory military service to a professional army. But NATO member Poland and neutral Austria…

European Union leaders will decide in December whether to begin accession talks with Turkey. Officially the EU has told Turkey it can join, but without setting a date for…

In theory citizens of the European Union should be able to live and work in any European country of their choosing. But the practice is quite different. The hundreds of…

Three weeks before European Union enlargement, the United Nations released a report saying that some population groups in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and…

The left is in disarray in Poland, out of power in Slovakia - just hanging on to power in the Czech Republic and although in power in Hungary - now trailing the opposition…

EU leaders met in Brussels this week and decided on a range of security measures including appointing a counter-terrorism co-ordinator, strengthening border controls…

Poland is not the only country in the region with troops in Iraq. The Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia also have forces deployed there. So will fear of terror attacks…

The European Commission has proposed keeping regional subsidies for poor regions in existing member states. Their spending plans for 2007 to 2013 would see only 41 percent…

The European Union is warning Russia that it must extend existing trade and political agreements to the central and eastern European countries set to join the bloc in May…

A large number of refugees leaving Slovakia head across the border to Austria. But Austria is also having troubles dealing with the inflow of asylum seekers - its main…