East Europe PMs victims of new democracy
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Is European Union membership bad for your health? For prime ministers of the three leading new members of the EU - Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary - it has been nothing less than fatal.
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MOSCOW Boris Yeltsin, Russia&#39;s first post-Soviet leader, issued a veiled warning Thursday that President Vladimir Putin&#39;s decision to seize sweeping new powers after the Beslan hostage crisis could erode democratic freedoms.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 3 (IPS) - The leaders of eight countries in eastern and  central Europe launched a 10-year plan Wednesday to tackle severe  social problems encountered by Roma, communities.
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BANJA LUKA, SARAJEVO -- Saturday - After yesterdayâs resignation of the Republic of Srpskaâs Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic, today Bosnia-Herzegovina Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic and two other government representatives of the Republic of Srpska
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Former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov on Friday urged President Georgi Parvanov and Socialist leader Sergey Stanishev to respond to allegations of funding their party has received from the regime of former Iraqi ...
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East Germans gave a strong boost to right wing extremists and the former communists in two state elections, punishing the countryâs biggest mainstream parties for the regionâs high unemployment and cuts in social programmes.
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Â· Vote would block funds for eastern Europe projectÂ· Committee says system too costly and untested
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A conference of former world leaders led by former Czech President Vaclav Havel has called for international pressure on Cuba to move the communist nation toward democracy.
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The 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist Party is marked by Czechs.
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Investor's Business Daily - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white border barrier in a symbolic extension of the EU's passport-free zone to former Eastern Bloc nations: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Support for the move is mixed, with the head of the EU's border watchdog agency warning that it will fuel illegal immigration.
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Apathy, tears and disappointment dominated eastern Ukraine on Monday after the opposition declared victory in a bitterly contested presidential battle with Donetsk's hometown favorite, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
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Violent clashes stem from broadcast of Prime Minister's shocking admission LONDON - As they strolled through central Budapest yesterday morning, many Hungarians saw things that brought them back to the bad days ...
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Last month, it was the incumbent prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, who claimed victory in Ukraineâs presidential election, and the upstart challenger, Viktor Yushchenko, who refused to accept the result.
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KIEV, Ukraine Foreign observers say Ukraine&#39;s presidential election does not meet European standards for democracy. They cite state media bias in favor of the prime minister and state interference, including obstruction of opposition activites.
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I recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled "Dealing with the past in ex-Yugoslavia." Although the rest of post-communist Europe confronted such questions a decade ago, the Balkan wars of the ...
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PRAGUE The former Czech president, Vaclav Havel, and about 100 other international figures have signed a petition accusing President Vladimir Putin of Russia of using the Beslan hostage drama to undermine democracy.
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From Kyiv to Prague and Baku to Bratislava, presidents and prime ministers have sought medical treatment abroad since the fall of the Soviet Union.