At what point should the European Union close its doors and call itself complete?
Coming up in this week's Insight Central Europe - At what point should the European Union finally close its doors and declare itself complete? Bulgaria & Rumania are pretty well assured entry in 2007, but do the Balkans or the Ukraine and Belarus "belong" to the EU?
Coming up in this week's Insight Central Europe - At what point should the European Union finally close its doors and declare itself complete? Bulgaria & Rumania are pretty well assured entry in 2007, but do the Balkans or the Ukraine and Belarus "belong" to the EU?
Now that current EU members have cleared what they view as most major hurdles to enlargement, the mood in some countries expected to join in 2004 has turned sceptical. A survey done by Brussels has shown that there's a still a slim majority in the candidate countries to join the union, but opposition is on the rise. Might the Poles, after all the doubts in Brussels about their economic and agricultural problems, finally turn the EU down?
We take an in-depth look at the film industry in Central Europe. In Prague, the wave of commercial and artistic successes has been described by some critics as the return of the Czech New Wave. The situation for aspiring film makers in neighbouring Slovakia is very difficult, with the country producing only 2 or 3 films a year, and there are similar complaints about lack of support in Austria. We hear from director Bady Mincks whose highly original movie In Anfang war der Blick premiered at this year's Vienna film festival.