Former Cold War borders fall away in new Europe
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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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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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Old Europe is going to work, according   to a new report indicating the United States is losing its edge   in maintaining a more vibrant job market than the continent.
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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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Eastern Europe's lions in winter have rediscovered their roar. When Ukraine descended into postelection chaos this week, the most stirring pleas for a peaceful resolution came not from Washington but from Warsaw and Prague.
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TROKAVEC, Czech Republic -- The push and pull of international tensions seem far removed from this forest village 45 miles southwest of Prague. Fewer than 100 people live here in masonry houses topped with orange tiles.
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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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Nine mainly ex-East bloc countries on Friday tore down their borders to join a European zone allowing 400 million people to travel from Estonia in the east to Portugal in the west without showing a passport.
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FDI fell one-third in Central and Eastern European countries from 2002 to 2003. The &quot;skilled but relatively cheap workforce&quot; in the eight new EU member countries did not pull in investment as strongly as expected
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European leaders celebrated the end of border controls along a line stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic on Friday as many of the European Union's newest members joined the EU's passport-free zone.
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LESKOVAC, Serbia -- The crumbling factory walls and idle smokestacks that dominate this town are replicated across Eastern Europe, symbols of once-proud industrial centers that fell into decline almost as soon as the Berlin Wall came down.
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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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speaks with his US counterpart Paul E. Snyder (L) during a press conference at the border village of Panmunjom, north of Seoul, November 1. US troops withdrew November 1 from the world&#39;s last Cold War
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LONDON, May 24 -- Families forced to leave the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to make way for a U.S. military base at Diego Garcia during the Cold War have won a key legal victory in their long struggle to return.
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BELGRADE, Dec 26 (IPS) - As the European Union (EU) drops boundaries between  its countries and its people, Serbia plans to introduce new ones  against its disputed southern province, Kosovo.
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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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With Russia out of the arms control CFE treaty, it can build up forces in border areas and protect itself from the U.S.