Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Eastern Bloc" produced 12 items.
| 1. Founding father | May 19, 2011 |
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Hungary's junior foreign minister has been at the heart of the Fidesz party since day one. For Hungary's junior foreign minister, responsibility for the affairs of... | |
| 2. 20 years on and Germany faces familiar questions | October 7, 2010 |
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The questions posed by the great experiment of German reunification remain only partially answered. Germany's reunification, 20 years ago last Sunday, was one of the largest... |
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| 3. An unfinished revolution may be gaining momentum | May 27, 2010 |
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Public life in the ex-communist world is again run by a well-connected elite. But new cracks are emerging. In the communist era, the countries of eastern and central Europe... | |
| 4. Berlin commemorates fall of the wall | November 9, 2009 |
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EU leaders to discuss top EU jobs on the sidelines of celebrations to mark the end of communism in Germany. World leaders have gathered in Berlin to commemorate the fall of... | |
| 5. Goodbye to all that? | November 5, 2009 |
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, has Europe entered a post-post-1989 period? “I smell an overall collapse,” Nikolai Ryzhkov, the Soviet prime minister,... | |
| 6. So much more complex | November 5, 2009 |
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Reflecting on the events that formed and maintained a divided Europe. I would like to compliment | |
| 7. Unbelievable | June 3, 2009 |
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Twenty years of perspective may instruct historians, but the most valuable lesson from Poland's first partly free elections comes from remembering how we Poles saw things... |
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| 8. Crisis leads to neglect, hypocrisy and abandonment | March 12, 2009 |
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Ex-communist countries need to stop playing the blame game and start making changes if they are to move ahead. The economic crisis is still unfolding across the ex-communist... | |
| 9. Eastern Europe must rise above the West's low standards | October 9, 2008 |
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The West lacks the authority and the means to continue exporting its world view to ex-communist countries. When communism collapsed, the West had all the cards. The... | |
| 10. Brainpower famine is beginning to bite | October 25, 2007 |
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Conventional wisdom about eastern Europe is usually wrong. Few believed that the communist ice cap would melt so fast in 1989. Today's growth rates seemed unimaginable in the... | |
| 11. Slovenian history | December 5, 2002 |
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In your article on the NATO summit (European Voice, 28 November-4 December), you state that “seven former Eastern bloc countries” were invited to join the Alliance. For... | |
| 12. Competition chief in state aid warning | June 13, 2002 |
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MARIO Monti, the competition commissioner, has warned the countries hoping to join the European Union that they must curb the urge to dole out state aid. Speaking ahead of... | |
