Austria looks East Austria is at the sharp end of EU enlargement. It shares borders with four of the 10 countries which will join the EU next year. Alix Kroeger reports from Austria on the hopes and fears:
Negotiating EU membership The EU summit in mid-December agreed the terms on which 10 new countries were invited to join the EU. As our Brussels correspondent Oana Lungescu explains, the negotiations were complex.
NATO breaking in new troops As Nato prepares to accept up to seven new members from Central and Eastern Europe at its Prague summit this month, Jan Repa looks at how the last intake has fared.
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