7 May 2008
Hungarian ruling coalition collapses

30 April 2008
Strike wave continues in Romania

7 April 2008
Romanian autoworkers strike against rock-bottom wages

28 February 2008
Reader's letter on the closure of the Nokia factory in Bochum, Germany

22 February 2008
Czech Republic: Mudslinging dominates presidential election

22 November 2007
Bulgaria: Right-wing makes gains in local elections

20 November 2007
New pro-business government takes office in Poland

24 October 2007
Polish elections: a clear rebuff to the Kaczynskis

19 October 2007
Teachers strike in Bulgaria

29 September 2007
Polish elections offer no alternative for the broad masses

26 September 2007
Polish city council employs goons against striking bus drivers

24 September 2007
Hungarian extreme right set up paramilitary "Guard"

25 August 2007
Right-wing parties dominate in run-up to Polish elections

28 July 2007
Hundreds die in eastern Europe heat wave

27 July 2007
Poland: Kaczynski brothers provoke government crisis

19 July 2007
The way forward in the Polish doctors and nurses strike

10 July 2007
Poland: Health workers in confrontation with Kaczynski government

Polish healthcare workers discuss their strike

4 July 2007
Prague: thousands protest against cuts in social programs

22 June 2007
German-Polish conflict dominates EU summit

11 June 2007
Opel strike ends in Poland as GM cuts more jobs in Belgium

7 June 2007
Report to ISSE meeting in Warsaw: Nationalism and internationalism in Poland

ISSE holds successful campaign and meeting in Warsaw, Poland

30 May 2007
Six months after entering the EU
Political crises deepen in Romania and Bulgaria

19 May 2007
Historical issues raised as ISSE members build for Warsaw meeting

ISSE meetings to be held in Poland and Austria

18 April 2007
Poland's new "lustration" law--a profound attack on democratic rights

11 April 2007
Deported refugee commits suicide in Romania

17 March 2007
Planned US missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic intensify European tensions

8 February 2007
US signs up Poland and Czech Republic for missile shield

31 January 2007
Wielgus collaborated with Stalinist secret service
Poland: Archbishop's resignation exposes crisis of Catholic Church

6 January 2007
Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union

15 December 2006
Letter from a correspondent in Poland

25 November 2006
Polish mining disaster claims 23 lives

6 November 2006
Political crisis in Poland: the twists and turns of the Kaczynski government

31 October 2006
Mass abstention in Bulgaria's presidential election

28 October 2006
Hungary: The controversy over the heritage of the 1956 Revolution

26 October 2006
Hungary 1956: A revolution against Stalinism--Part two

25 October 2006
Hungary 1956: A revolution against Stalinism--Part one

5 October 2006
Hungary: Rightist parties seek to topple government following election

29 September 2006
Political lessons of the events in Hungary

21 September 2006
Following leak of prime minister's remarks
Hungary erupts in violent protests

9 August 2006
Poland: The coming to power of the Kaczynski brothers

11 July 2006
Poland: Kaczynski brothers now control two most important political posts

8 July 2006
Poland: Teachers, students demand resignation of education minister

7 July 2006
Slovakia: Social Democrats form a pact with the extreme right

\19 June 2006
Czech Greens enter right-wing government

13 June 2006
Poland: Health care crisis provokes strikes and protests

12 May 2006
Poland: Right-wing extremists officially join government

3 May 2006
Hungarian elections: Victory for a "socialist" millionaire

22 March 2006
Polish President Kaczynski visits Berlin

11 March 2006
Poland: Winter of death for impoverished

1 February 2006
Poland: More than 60 dead following roof collapse in Katowice

13 December 2005
German Chancellor Merkel's state visit to Poland: you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours

29 October 2005
Poland: Lech Kaczynski elected president in low voter turnout

14 October 2005
Polish presidential election: playoff between two right-wing candidates

7 October 2005
Polish parliamentary elections: record abstentions and swing to right

1 October 2005
Bulgaria: grand coalition to form after weeks of wrangling

17 September 2005
Increasing tensions between Belarus and Poland

20 August 2005
Poland: protesting miners clash with police as elections approach

13 July 2005
Bulgarian elections: support for former king collapses

29 June 2005
Whatever happened to "new" Europe? Britain and new eastern EU members at loggerheads over budget

8 June 2005
Social conditions in Poland--a letter from a reader

30 March 2005
Government crisis in Poland--prime minister to resign

2 March 2005
Romania: new right-wing government slashes taxes, fuels social tensions

4 February 2005
A special report from Poland
Part 2: the Opel factory in Gliwice

3 February 2005
A special report from Poland
Part 1: social misery in Silesia

6 January 2005
Romania: elections in Europe's poorhouse

6 November 2004
Polish parliament demands reparations from Germany

15 July 2004
The EU's eastward expansion--the cases of Romania and Bulgaria

8 July 2004
Marek Belka elected new Polish premier

26 June 2004
Poland and the European elections

6 May 2004
Marek Belka is new Polish head of government

4 May 2004
Poland: demonstrations on eve of EU entry

26 April 2004
Slovakia takes up membership in the European Union with extreme right-wing president

1 April 2004
On eve of Poland's entry into the EU
Polish prime minister resigns amid mass opposition to social devastation

4 March 2004
Slovakia: Social cuts provoke violent clashes

12 December 2003
Eastern Europe faces HIV-AIDS epidemic

11 November 2003
US extends its military influence in Eastern Europe

25 October 2003
Child trafficking in eastern Europe: A trade in human misery

17 October 2003
The social cost of Slovakia's "investors paradise"

4 October 2003
Countdown to Poland's entry into the European Union

7 August 2003
Poland sends troops to Iraq

18 March 2003
Czech student kills himself in protest against war and corruption

21 November 2002
Iraq war dominates NATO summit in Prague

20 November 2002
Massive security crackdown at Prague NATO summit

30 May 2002
Eastern European workers to pay the cost of membership in European Union

1 May 2002
Socialist coalition prepares Hungary for entry into European Union following election

21 November 2001
Bulgaria: Presidential elections reveal drop in support for former Tsar Simeon II

16 October 2001
Bulgaria: New government implements cuts and privatisation

12 October 2001
Poland: Democratic Left Party heads new coalition government

10 September 2001
Polish elections--"Democratic Party of the Left" announces plans for further attacks on social gains

24 July 2001
Ex-King Simeon II named new prime minister of Bulgaria

9 July 2001
Lithuanian government resigns amidst bitter intrigues over privatisations

2 May 2001
International Committee of the Fourth International's May Day greetings to the workers of Valea Jiului, Romania

15 January 2001
Demonstrations support occupation of Czech state television station
Background to the conflict over "Ceska Televize"

6 January 2001
Unicef report highlights situation of children and young people in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
The terrible price of capitalist restoration

16 December 2000
Romania after the election

8 November 2000
New Lithuanian government deepens orientation to European Union

14 October 2000
Lithuania: Ruling Homeland Union suffers election collapse

12 October 2000
Kwasniewski returned in presidential elections in Poland

24 July 2000
Poland in the run-up to presidential elections

12 July 2000
European heat wave leads to deaths and forest fires

6 June 2000
Behind the government crisis in Poland

15 February 2000
Cyanide spill "a catastrophe of European dimensions"

24 November 1999
State racism in the Czech Republic

22 November 1999
Lithuanian ministers resign over terms of US buyout of state oil refinery

13 October 1999
Social crisis in Poland at the breaking point

24 July 1999
Health services as an economic factor-the example of Poland

10 February 1999
Polish farmers blockade borders

Poland: Widespread opposition to health reforms
Doctors and nurses threaten general strike

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