Hungary

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – In Hungary, the post-Communist boom has turned to bust. And many Hungarians feel the rest of Europe is so preoccupied with its own problems that it simply can’t see how bad things are here. The country’s prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany warned this week about a new “Iron Curtain” descending across the continent, dividing rich…

TATARSZENTGYORGY, HUNGARY – I am standing in a graveyard in central Hungary, surrounded by hundreds of Roma. They are said to be Europe’s most persecuted minority, and today they feel it. For they have gathered to mourn at the freshly dug graveside of a father and his son, burned alive in what is believed to…