Articles tagged 'Germany'
| Title | Headline | Summary | Media | Date | hf:tags | |
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 | Trains | From Aš to Zlín - and back again | “Could you,” I once asked a train-mad friend “travel right across the Czech Republic using only the slow, stopping trains?” The answer was yes, as I and another friend proved in 2007. We spent 19 days covering 2,000 kilometres, setting foot in over 80 towns and villages, and crossing the border into Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Austria. This is an audio diary of that journey. | Radio Prague | 2007-12-26 | austria border czech eu germany poland slovakia trains |
 | Food | Ex-communist states complain of rip-off food in EU | When communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe, previously unobtainable goods flooded the market. Today, shops and supermarkets offer broadly the same food and drink as in the West – a tangible result of global capitalism. But something is dawning on Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians: the labels are the same, but the contents might not be. | BBC News | 2017-05-17 | border communism czech economy eu germany |