Eastern Europe sets symbolic store in banishing borders
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The ending of border checks between the former communist states of eastern Europe and Western neighbours on Friday carries a potent symbolism for those who for long lived behind the Iron Curtain and were then made to feel like "second class citizens" in a united Europe.
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Big-name Western bands head to Eastern Europe.
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The socialist leaders of six central European nations signed a declaration on Friday, Sept. 14, condemning US plans to base its missile defense shield on European soil. In what will be a massive blow to the United States' plans to base its missile defense shield in Central Europe, left-wing leaders from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia plus Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Germany's Social Democratic Party chief Kurt Beck condemned the plan
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PRAGUE, Oct 25 (IPS) - The change of government in Poland heralds a new  era in its cooperation with the European Union, and changes are  also expected in Warsaw's policies towards both Russia and  the United States.
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Eastern Europeans who have no plans to settle in UK often change their minds within months of coming here, according to new research.
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KIEV : Ukraine stepped up security nationwide as it braced for a landmark presidential election fraught with East-West rivalries certain to impact the course of one of Europe&#39;s largest states for years ahead.
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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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THE spirit of the Habsburg Empire will hover over central Europe as Hungarians vote tomorrow on a proposal to offer citizenship to three million of their ethnic brethren across the borders.
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Moldova, that's where. Formerly part of the Soviet bloc, the small country is shoehorned between Ukraine and Romania.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 24 (IPS) - Nationalism, corruption, populism and violence are  terms increasingly associated with some of the events seen in the  Central and Eastern European countries that joined the European  Union (EU) in May 2004. But whether there are reasons for concern  is still open to debate.
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Since seceding from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has tried to balance its close ties with Russia with its aspirations of broader cooperation with the European Union (EU).
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The name Ukraine literally means "at the edge," and the world often treated it just that way &#151; as a distant, vaguely noticed expanse overshadowed by Russia to the east and the dynamically developing former communist nations to its west.
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PRAGUE, Jan 24 (IPS) - The enlargement of the Schengen free-travel zone  has been celebrated as an opportunity to reunite Western and  Eastern Europe, but those further east feel it was done at their  expense, and some in the West have not welcomed the change.
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Europe prepared to scrap internal border controls on Thursday and incorporate a slew of states formerly on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain in a frontier-free zone encompassing 400 million people in 24 countries.
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PRAGUE, Nov 24 (IPS) - Millions in Eastern Europe remain convinced that  life was better for them before communism collapsed 15 years ago.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Eight Eastern European states launched a 10-year initiative yesterday to help millions of Roma Gypsies escape discrimination, segregation, and poverty that has pushed them to the margins of mainstream society.
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PRAGUE, Sep 25 (IPS) - The case of an ethnic Hungarian student who claims  to have been attacked by Slovak xenophobes has come to symbolise  the persistent clashes that strain relations between two of the  EU (European Union)'s most unfriendly neighbours.