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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Eastern European economies should brace themselves for a slowdown in growth after their business model has been exposed as weak, thinktank Vienna Institute for Economic Studies WIIW said, as quoted by Dnevnik daily on November 29.The economic boom experienced by the region since 2000 was based on the shaky foundation of foreign capital inflows, which has led to a drastic increase in current...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Edward Lucas re-posts The Economist's obits of Mieczyslaw Rakowski, a Polish Communist journalist and politician, who died on Nov. 8, and of Boris Fyodorov, a Russian economic reformer, who died on Nov. 20. Borut Peterlin notes the death of Vilko Filač, the “cameraman of Emir Kusturica’s best movies.”
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
The economies of Bulgaria and Romania are the worst off in Eastern Europe, according to an article published on Thursday in the authoritative "Economist" magazine. The global financial crisis is going to have the most negative effects in Bulgaria and Romania, the poorest and worst-governed new mem...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
A few Roma-related posts: Inside Albania muses on the U.S. election and concludes that having a Roma PM in Albania will remain “pure fantasy” for quite a while; Romano Them links to a report on the situation with the Roma in Kosovo; Hungarian Spectrum reported on Nov. 20 that “[i]n recent days sixteen attempts have [...]
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Stopping the rot Nov 27th 2008 From The Economist print edition East European economies crack, with Romania and Bulgaria the worst off JUST another week's news in eastern Europe: Latvia, after vehement denials, starts talks with the IMF; Bulgaria loses €220m ($286m) in promised payments from t...
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International - Home (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
According to a study of the Vienna institute for comparative analysis of the world economy, countries from Eastern Europe as a whole will avoid the recession
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
East European economies crack, with Romania and Bulgaria the worst off JUST another week’s news in eastern Europe: Latvia, after vehement denials, starts talks with the IMF; Bulgaria loses €220m ($286m) in promised payments from the European Union because of its failure to tackle corruption; and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development cuts its growth forecast for the region by half. But...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
The economies of the Eastern European states are going to avoid the recession despite the raging global financial crisis, according to an analysis of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies as quoted by BGNES. The Institute study warns, however, that as a result of the crisis the re...
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Smart Card Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... cards opens up new distribution channels to us and reinforces our presence in the sales markets in Eastern Europe, which are particularly important to us”. Dr Otto Eggimann, Vice President Sales and Business Development of LEGIC, also looks forward to an increased strengthening of his company’s own market position due to the partnership: “In Inplastor GmbH we are gaining a partner who possesses...
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Dismal (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
The region's imbalances are a growing problem.
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
From Deutsche-Welle: Russia is prepared to make plans to deploy missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave "disappear" if the US drops plans to base part of its missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic, Russia's prime minister says. If the new administration of US president-elect Barack Obama drops deployment plans for a missile shield in what Russia considers to be within its sphere of influence,...
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All Free Download Links (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture ABC-CLIO | ISBN: 1576078000 | 2004-12-22 | PDF | 928 pages |4 Mb Modern-day Eastern Europe, the product of a complex and troubled past, was a complete mystery to the rest of the world for decades. Buy me a CoffeeShare This
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
We just published a paper on green-card marriages, including the widespread fraud. David Seminara, a former consular officer, includes some specific examples from his experience in Eastern Europe; my favorite is the case of a guy from the Bronx who filed a fiance petition for a Nigerian woman (who'd just been turned down for asylum in Hungary) whom he'd met on his first-ever trip abroad, to...
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Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
S. Adam Cardais' "Migrants: From Remittance to Pittance" at Transitions Online takes a look at the effect of the global economic downturn on economically essential labour migration in the poorer countries of post-Communist Europe. The former Soviet Union and post-communist Eastern Europe are filled with immature economies rife with poverty, corruption, and unemployment and lacking any comparative...
