The Economic History of Eastern Europe 1919-1975: Volume I: Economic Structure and Performance between the Two Wars (Economic History of Eastern Europe 1919-1975, Vol 1)
Amsterdam City (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Post Office foreign currency research finds that the traditional winter city breaks of Paris, Amsterdam and Barcelona cannot currently compete with Eastern Europe when ...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic are among the seven countries showing the steepest increase in credit risk of 21 sovereign credit-default swaps. The swaps are tracked by Bloomberg, and were reported in a Bloomberg article on Eastern European debt . "The world is coming out of the doldrums, but Eastern Europe still has to burn off these higher debt levels, the external...
First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Edinburgh, UK - Tight holiday budgets are leading skiers to leapfrog traditional favorites in the Alps for better value ski resorts in Central and Eastern Europe this winter.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Antibiotic resistance is increasing throughout the world because of excessive use, Agence France-Press reports. The news service writes, "Experts at the 2nd annual European antibiotics awareness day held by the Stockholm-based European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC) said new, hyper-resistant bacteria were emerging, threatening the pillars of global health.
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
URL: http://www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/dem_gov/ngoindex/2008/complete_document.pdf . Source: USAID. In 2008, NGOs across Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia continued to pursue their roles as key agents of change in their societies. They faced diverse and wide-ranging challenges, from basic struggles with registration to recruiting volunteers to fine-tuning favorable tax provisions....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... various countries based on foreign exchange rates - has found that cities outside the eurozone in Eastern Europe can currently help UK holidaymakers' pounds stretch further This is as a result of better foreign exchange rates and lower costs of living in these countries. The Post Office research finds that the traditional winter city breaks of Paris, Amsterdam and Barcelona cannot currently...
Glenn Greenwald (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... a bastion of pragmatic sanity in this rising sea of accountability extremism. Unlike those strange Eastern Europeans and absolutist Western European purist judges, we know there are far more important priorities than "investigating" war crimes, compelling transparency, and holding political criminals accountable. As the rest of the world gets distracted by all this chatter about...
Prague City (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Covering the development of Jewish life in Europe in the 20 years since the fall of communism, I have witnessed many landmark moments. Among them ...
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
“What we had in theater in Eastern Europe was a measure of what was going on beneath the surface of life in these countries. Through the arts you felt the tremors and shocks of change that might have initially been imperceptible. And it enabled people to get an inkling of what was to come.”
Maritime News (Free subscription) | yesterday
DHL launches new direct US – Europe LCL services DHL has launched direct LCL services from New York to Vienna y, Austria and Klaipeda y, Lithuania as part of an ongoing roll out of direct consolidations to enhance trade links from the US to Eastern Europe and the Baltics. ? Operated by DHL's in-house carrier, Danmar Lines, the new services shave between five and seven days off the prior...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... SVER (pronounced “sever”) has soldiers from the downtrodden states of Asia and Eastern Europe. While the Raven Industries faction has high-tech Western European gear but is the least battle hardened. Most first-person shooter games max out at 12, 16, 32, or sometimes even 64 players at a time. No one has tried to build a network so good that it can support as many as MAG can....
AirTransportNews.aero (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Wizz Air, the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced that it would expand its fleet in Romania and introduce new flights. As of 12 June 2010 the Company...
Bad Bad Juju (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Stone Soup is an old fairy tale...read into it what you want. Once upon a time, somewhere in post-war Eastern Europe, there was a great famine in which people jealously hoarded whatever food they could find, hiding it even from...
Social Europe Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Utopianism is a necessary part of our rethinking of social democracy. Almost exactly twenty years ago the Berlin wall came crashing down on ‘actually existing socialism’ in Eastern Europe. Some commentators on the political right were quick to announce the ‘end of history’ and the ever-lasting triumph of the liberal-capitalist order: the end of the cold [...]
Times Online - Bronwen Maddox (Free subscription) | yesterday
The European Union has achieved a small, surprising success in helping Central and Eastern Europe to avoid a savage banking crisis this year. We should give it credit for that. Bank regulation is not an area where the EU has generally distinguished itself in clarity or consistency. It has usually failed to rise above national interests, or even those of individual banks.
