Go to the Content Friday, 19 March 2010
Your search for "Eastern Europe" produced 206 items.
| 1. Eastern Europe should present its modern face to the world | March 11, 2010 |
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Modern visitors find interesting, beautiful new things more attractive than sad, beautiful old ones. Imagine that you are attending a conference (call it Agenda 2010) in the... | |
| 2. The end of history in Europe's ex-captive nations? | March 4, 2010 |
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Central and eastern Europe may be joining the European club of the ahistorical and apathetic. Where would they be without their past, the ex-captive nations? (Or... | |
| 3. Facing the facts when turning the corner in eastern Europe | March 4, 2010 |
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The EBRD will focus on strengthening domestic capital markets in its effort to help the recovery of economies in central and eastern Europe. There are various kinds of... | |
| 4. Eastern Europe-friendly boycotts are difficult to pull off | February 25, 2010 |
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Should French cheese-makers and Italian vineyards be punished for the sins of their governments? Voting with your wallet is a tempting substitute for real politics. Time was... | |
| 5. European studies at a university in exile | February 18, 2010 |
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Howa life in exile is affecting the European Humanities University, a Belarusian university now re-established in Lithuania. When the European Humanities University (EHU)... |
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| 6. Going, going, gone? | February 12, 2010 |
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Every year more animals, plants and marine life face threats to their habitat, and their existence. We look at some of the creatures in danger. | |
| 7. A gloomy eastern outlook | February 4, 2010 |
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Restoring growth in central and eastern Europe is shaping up to be a lengthy business. Greece currently dominates the landscape for economic policymakers. In the run-up to... |
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| 8. Composed economist | January 28, 2010 |
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The man nominated to be the Hungarian member of the new Commission exudes an air of intellectual honesty and curiosity. László Andor is an unusual politician. For... |
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| 9. A supermarket in Estonia | December 23, 2009 |
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The best sort of eastward expansion.
Food in Europe's ex-communist countries has an undeservedly bad reputation: stodgy peasant fare ruined by the culinary commissars of... | |
| 10. Why the 'Medvedev Plan' is doing more harm than good | December 17, 2009 |
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Clumsy Russian tactics are boosting NATO in eastern Europe, and making the Kremlin look weak. In the 1990s, when enlarging NATO to take in the ex-communist countries still... | |
| 11. Could China fill a power vacuum in eastern Europe? | November 26, 2009 |
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China has plenty of reasons to develop a presence in eastern Europe. Should the region risk seduction? As the countries of eastern Europe bump nervously between a... | |
| 12. 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,... | |
| 13. Lost homes and legal battles: Beneš Decrees | November 5, 2009 |
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Why have the Beneš Decrees, which legitimated the post-war expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, surfaced so persistently as a political problem? A Czech president once... |
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| 14. A needless addition to an encyclopaedia of tensions | October 15, 2009 |
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A book sends identity politics in south-eastern Europe into overdrive and treads roughly on sensitive toes. It is normally hard to get excited about encyclopaedias. Indeed,... | |
| 15. Heading east for good news days and bad news days | October 1, 2009 |
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If you are planning to give an eastern European country some unpleasant news, it is good to know which dates to avoid. History was a long time ago, unless it happened to... | |
| 16. Playing for more than just money | September 24, 2009 |
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Lack of clear political leadership is making it harder for the EU to help eastern European member states escape their economic problems and could threaten political... |
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| 17. Putting words into the mouths of eastern luminaries | July 30, 2009 |
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A letter from eastern Europe to President Obama has attracted a great deal of attention. Here's what it could have said. A letter by east European luminaries to the US... | |
| 18. Dear Barack, please don't forget us in these difficult times | July 23, 2009 |
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An open letter to the US president has heavyweight support but many of its ideas are rooted in the past. Voices do not carry easily across the Atlantic. But when they belong... | |
| 19. It's not all about dumplings in eastern Europe | July 9, 2009 |
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At the risk of adding deliberate insult to unintended injury, the quest for east Europe's culinary highs and lows continues. Last week's column has aroused offence where... | |
| 20. Holidays in the west mean misery and conflict in the east | June 25, 2009 |
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If another crisis hits eastern Europe in the summer, the US is likely to respond faster than the European Union. When the people who run the western world go on holiday, bad... | |
