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In the woods on the border of the Czech Republic the Slovak social worker Ludmilla Irmscher ­battles against women traffickers, ignorant “customers”, insulted authorities and everyday naked violence. Sometimes she gives women who have been forced to become prostitutes a new life.

Social issues: Forces in grey areas

Barbara Tóth in conversation with migration researcher Michael Jandl about a sensitive topic: migration and illegal employment

Borderline Cases from the East

Capsizing boatloads of refugees or weakened Africans clambering out of rudimentary vessels onto the beaches of Tenerife or Lampedusa have become part of everyday presentations on our media this summer. Hereby the fact that most of the illegal immigrants to the EU enter across the eastern border is often overlooked. A report on a permanent state of emergency.

“Without the EU the poverty would be far, far greater!”

Florian Klenk in conversation with Christoph Badelt, Rector of the WU Wien on the perils of the EU expansion.

What is "real" solidarity?

Does anyone in this room still believe in solidarity between the “two Europes”? Rival interpretations of solidarity in "East" and "West".
An Essay by János Mátyás Kovács.

"To leave the weakest behind in order to advance more quickly?"

Commentary by Franz Küberl, President of Caritas Österreich about the social and economic development of Central Europe in the years to come.

An Eclipsed People

Following the Roma revolts in eastern Slovakia earlier this year, the media scrambled to out do each other with sensational reports on their catastrophic living conditions. Most Roma have long been integrated in the larger community. Nonetheless, they are still subjected to daily racism. A younger generation is now rising to their feet, in their own way.

“Foreigner” Syndrome?
What does integration actually mean?