Adam LeBor
Flexible friends
Change is coming to Central Europe as liberal-leaning mayors challenge their more autocratic-minded national governments. And Budapest’s Gergely Karacsony is looking to Vienna for inspiration.
Empire strikes back
Georg von Habsburg, son of the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, still identifies as a Central European. And he believes that his family’s legacy is vital to the region.
Europe
Angela Merkel’s to-do list, Hamburg’s meaty resurgence and the UK’s forthcoming general elections.
Breaking barriers
A quarter century since the Berlin Wall fell, Central and Eastern Europe have been transformed. But democracy in the former Communist countries remains a work in progress, free of Soviet rule.
Media
Upcoming televisual treats in the US and wireless speakers that will appease sonic connoisseurs.
Arctic adventure
After 18 years as president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is now moderating the global clamour for a piece of the Arctic. He discusses the region's future, resources and strategic importance.
Europe
The fight for Hungary's skies, a high-rise revolution in Austria and election watch in Georgia, plus Sweden's integration minister talks about life after the Stockholm riots.
Europe
The motorcade of Dutch queen Beatrix, Europe's dash for gas and an interview with Hungary's opposition leader, Gordon Bajnai.
Power shift
Hungary’s foreign affairs minister discusses the challenges facing his country’s EU presidency, the importance of an increased role for central Europe and his government’s reputation for media bashing.
Don’t judge
Having issued an arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi, will the International Criminal Court ever bring the Libyan leader to justice? Here, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo responds to critics who say the ICC is ineffectual.
