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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Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Western living standards still out of reach.
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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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MOSCOW -- Russia warned the United States yesterday it might pull out of a Cold War nuclear arms reduction treaty because of plans by Washington to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe.
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SHCHUCHYE, Russia - Out of the flatlands and swamps about 100 miles from Russia's southern border, a huge gray box of concrete, brick, pipes, and wires is rising, a factory that next year may begin to neutralize one of the most threatening legacies of the Cold War.
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The world&#39;s sole remaining Cold War frontier post lost its American guards yesterday when the United States withdrew from the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea.
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American allies Japan and Australia embraced a new U.S. plan to restructure its forces abroad, while Russia said it was not concerned by the proposal. But Germany, home to 70,000 U.S. soldiers, said any withdrawal from the former Cold War frontier may hurt its economy.
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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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Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a private museum is rebuilding a 200-meter section close to Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War border crossing, to satisfy tourists who flock to the site.
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Since its break from the former Yugoslavia in 1991, Slovenia is no longer the well-kept secret for travelers it once was.
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U.S. homeland security officials are preparing to abandon plans to develop a system to track the departure of foreign visitors at land borders, citing cost and technical obstacles in scaling back a major post-Sept. 11 domestic security initiative, officials said.
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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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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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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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MOSCOW, July 14 -- Russia on Saturday formally suspended its participation in a conventional arms treaty dating from the last years of the Cold War that limited NATO and Russian military deployments in Europe.
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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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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.