With the plush crocodile on the gay parade.

Also in Riga are homosexuals on the street. At the time of their parade "Baltic Pride" under the supervision they need to celebrate. The Hitchhiker's Guide 16 Leipziger students explore the new EU member states - and make a special experience in border no-man's-land between Slovenia and Croatia.

 

Located in the Euro-election campaign by traveling reporters mephisto 97.6, the local radio station of the University of Leipzig, criss-crossed by the new EU member states: two weeks through the Baltic States, Poland and the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovenia. The strict rules: Students may not train or bus, hitchhike only is permitted. Hotels and hostels are also taboo, the Leipzigers looking every day anew in a place the inhabitants.

To get the students another view of the country and meet people who are not normally in the media spotlight. With the tramp trip they make to a project from the year 2004. At that time, shortly after the EU's eastward expansion was already Leipzig Radio Reporter losgetrampt to the fears and prejudices against new EU member states to meet.

Now once again report on Leipziger Tramper blogs ONLINE from the life of the new EU citizens. You and discuss poker in a Hungarian village youth club, discover an alleged piece of Slovenia on the Croatian territory to attend a gay parade in Riga and ask for the leftovers of the Romanian revolution of 1989.