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Vol 2, No 39
13 November 2000
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CER has won the
NetMedia 2000 Award for 
Outstanding Contribution 
to Online Journalism in Europe
On 8 November, the European Commission released its annual
Progress Reports on the candidate countries. CER takes a look at
how each country fared.
   Bulgaria: impending corruption tussles
   Czech Republic: still bucking Brussels
   Estonia: an assessment tough but fair
   Hungary: really almost there
   Latvia: some catching-up is seen
   Lithuania: the EC has been keen
   Poland: progress built on progress
   Romania: a nearly hopeless mess
 
   Slovakia: a pro-Dzurinda spree
   Slovenia: in by 2003?

Media reactions
Austria & France: seeing dangers there
Germany: our attention's elsewhere
UK: pretending that we care

ONA Award
CER has been named a finalist for the Online Journalism Award in the category of "General Excellence in Online Journalism: Original to the Web." The awards are presented by the Online News Association and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Winners will be announced on
1 December.
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books
The Long Take
That Kills

Bejamin Halligan
Why were Andrei Tarkovsky's films so agonisingly slow?

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letters
The outside media looking into the region:

Great Britain:
A Means As Well As an End

Oliver Craske
Snagging some fellow fish into the B-stream of a two-speed Europe.

Germany:
Fish and Red Tape

Andrea Mrozek
The Kursk hit a big fish and Russia is interested in guarding democracy—both equally plausible suggestions.

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The Bell of Betrayal
Announces Victory

Petr Zídek
Mnichovský komplex, by Historian Jan Tesař, provides an excellent analysis of the end of the First Czechoslovak Republic.

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The World According to Dubya
Mel Huang
If Bush does win, we'll have "Chicken Kiev" on the menu again.

The European Bank for the Retardation of Development
Sam Vaknin
The EBRD has failed to Westernize the Easterners and has instead been Easternized by them.

Meter Maid Commandos
Jan Čulík
The municipality of Prague has created a riot squad out of common traffic wardens.

Crisis by Design
Jana Altman
Although the Czech media is constantly under threat of persecution by politicians and the public alike, it may just be its own worst enemy.

Romanian Women
Don't Wear the Trousers

Delia Dumitrica
Why don't Romanian women stand up to the patriarchal stereotypes imposed on them?

Détente from Below
Patrick Burke
Taking issue with the idea of an ill-informed Western Left.

CER's Content Crown Awards
Recognising outstanding Internet content throughout the region

ebooks
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Memory and Forgetting
Martin D Brown
Historical amnesia and post-Cold War attitudes in the Czech Republic. FREE ebook for CER eBookclub members.

Greasing the Wheels
Gusztáv Kosztolányi
The bribes, the theft, the orgies... Hungary's incredible oil scandal fully explained.

After the Rain
Sam Vaknin
Has "transition" all been for nought?

The Celluloid Tinderbox
Andrew James Horton (ed)
An explosive decade of Yugo film. FREE!

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