By phone Joker by Eastern Europe.

You are at the borders of Europe have gone - and to their own. You have gestaunt and argued, haggled and celebrated. 16 Leipziger students hitchhiked through the new EU member states. On blogs they tell ONLINE right politicians, and the benefits Krisengewinnlern Polish milk bars.

 

From campaigning for the European Parliament, the reporter mephisto 97.6, the local radio station of the University of Leipzig, not much noticed, with their tramp trip through Eastern Europe. In the big cities were a few posters and the info centers in the EU were poorly attended, and candidates sometimes desperately tried to voters closer to the European Union. Like the Germans seems to be the majority of new EU citizens not for the Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels to be interested.

Nevertheless, the Leipzig students gained deep insights into the life in the Baltics, Poland and the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovenia. They found: Since the EU enlargement in 2004, the new member countries, a lot. At that time, ever Leipzig Radio Reporter losgetrampt to the prejudices and fears towards the new EU states to meet. Five years later met the Leipzigers to a new understanding between East and West and between tradition and future.

Team Poland had been ill for a brief week in Germany. The remaining teams were allowed two weeks only hitch to move, had a place to sleep every night and had to organize with language difficulties. On blogs ONLINE Tramper now looking back on their trips to the East and tell a typical story from each country.