Former Cold War borders fall away in new Europe
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ZITTAU, Germany  - Frontiers in east Europe once guarded by machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell away on Friday as nine mostly former communist states joined the EU's border-free zone amid fireworks, cheers and music.
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Paul Binder, TARGET International Executive Search director for central Europe (PB): Most of the fears of a mass migration from the new EU member states were not justified and I think they will not be fulfilled ...
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More than a decade and a half after the  collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new east-west divide has opened  up in the city which was for 40 years the front-line of the  Cold War.
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Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are not free for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said Monday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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Where does America end? In the age of high-tech undersea mapping, redefining long-settled borders is a trillion-dollar question.
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COTTBUS - Former communist East Germany has been transformed for the better 15 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall even though big problems remain including high unemployment and a worrying tendency of voters to back extremist parties.
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WARSAW (Der Spiegel) -- Young Polish workers have flocked in the hundreds of thousands to the UK, Ireland and Sweden to find work since Poland's EU entry in 2004. Now Poland is faced with a serious lack of skilled workers and Warsaw wants to entice them back home. One of Poland's biggest exports since joining the European Union has been its own people. But now Warsaw has decided the brain drain needs to be reversed and the government has launched a campaign to entice the migrants to come back home. Get the whole story here
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Fourteen years and a trillion euros  after reunification one in five Germans would like to see the  barrier that split the country during the Cold War put back, a  survey found Wednesday.
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Department of Defense officials announced this week the return of properties across Germany to the German government, part of a decade-long effort to trim America's post-Cold War military posture here.
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Wolfgang Heene, who  helped communist East Germany build the Berlin Wall as a young  soldier in 1961, has retired to a sleepy village on the Baltic  shore -- which in turn is having a barrier built around it.
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Soviet-era security services are still sending shudders through the region nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Three Greek islands, Samos, Lesbos and Chios, have become new fault lines for immigration into the European Union.
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Belarusians' decision whether to scrap presidential term limits in a referendum this weekend could determine if this East European nation will remain an isolated Soviet-style throwback or slowly turn toward the West.
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Property is a key factor in the march of expat Britons around Europe. But the reality is far removed from the dream of massive returns in former Eastern bloc nations.
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Border controls along the old Iron Curtain from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic cease to exist from midnight Thursday as most of the European Union's former communist new members join the bloc's passport-free travel zone.
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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.