Central Europe needs massive infrastructure investment
Coming up in this week's Insight Central Europe, the European investment bank says 500 billion Euro are needed to bring the infrastructure in the EU candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe up to the EU average. Roads, Rail water and energy all need massive investment. Admittedly the forecast growth in the transport business in EU candidate countries is huge. The consultancy firm A.T. Kearney reported this week that it's currently growing by around 14% a year - and will gather more steam after liberalisation and privatisation - but Central European rail operators may miss out on their share of the profits.
In this week's program we look at the situation in Hungary and talk to AT Kearney about the hazards on the track to an open transport market.
Also in the program: Austria's People's party scored a major victory in last weekends parliamentary elections - but is now searching for a coalition partner.
We take a final look back at the NATO Summit which took place in Prague last week, amidst new criticism from some civil libertarians that security at the closely-watched summit was overblown.
We hear about the central Polish industrial city of Lodz, famous for the Film School that produced top directors such as Polanski, Wajda and Zanussi. It did hit on lean times, but now David Linch is considering opening a film studio there.
And: feasting and magic in Slovakia.
