Osteuropa focuses on the ‘key country’ of the Czech Republic: with articles on the state of democracy and the transformation of the party system as mirror of wider processes. Also, an overview of a thousand years of religious history, and the new-old national self-image in film.   The defeat of Andrej Babiš’s ANO in the Czech Republic brings prospects of an end to the corruption, instability and anti-Europeanism that have defined the past four years of Czech politics. A coalition between the conservative alliance Spolu (27.8%) and the liberal alliance Pirate Party / STAN (15.6%) would secure a comfortable parliamentary majority and, as Volker Weichsel writes in Osteuropa, provide the country with a ‘heterogenous but still largely pro-European government