Stepping into the unknown is always scary. There are many pitfalls - and you are on your own.

Pamela Jenner takes part in a conference organized by young Eastern Europeans

The damage was done when politicians started believing the cases they had made.

Janet Paine looks back on ten years of an initiative to foster democratic values in Eastern and Central Europe

Never have more people been murdered than under such `great' leaders as Stalin, Hitler and Mao. Never, perhaps, have more people been led into wars not of their choosing than by lesser leaders like Lyndon B Johnson and Saddam Hussein.