Border barrier comes down to let East Europe in
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PETRZALKA, Slovakia  - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white frontier barrier on Thursday in symbolic preparation for nine new countries joining the EU's border-free zone at midnight.
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Europe is in a serious tug of war situation. On one side America wants it in its age-old traditional mode of preserving Western Union of Nations through NATO.
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BRUSSELS -- The European Union gave the final green light yesterday to the second wave of its eastern enlargement, inviting Bulgaria and Romania to join the bloc in 2007 and agreeing to open entry talks with Croatia next March.
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BUCHAREST, Romania -- Romania and Bulgaria won clearance yesterday to join the European Union on Jan. 1, capping an arduous journey from the chaos of communism's collapse but still facing some of the toughest terms ever for membership in the bloc.
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Austria's chancellor and  Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white  frontier barrier on Thursday in symbolic preparation for nine  new countries joining the EU's border-free zone at midnight.
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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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Officials have announced that Transdnestr, a breakaway region of ex-Soviet Moldova, has voted overwhelmingly in a referendum in favour of joining Russia, strengthening Moscow's hand in this outpost on the edge of the European Union.
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It&#039;s that time of year again when Europeans pack up the kids and pets and embark on an annual vacation exodus &amp;#151; jamming highways that are no celebration of European unity. The highway headaches are rooted largely in European governments&#039; inability to craft a sensibly numbered, well-maintained and uniformly sign-posted highway grid.
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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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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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IT HAS taken Russia a long time to find a way to interfere with the eastward expansion of the European Union and Nato.
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Belarussian guards on the border with Poland have stepped up security because large numbers of Chechens have been trying to go west, reports say.
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The road to EU membership for Romania began in 1999. On Tuesday, the European Commission assured it and neighbouring Bulgaria that they will join as scheduled on 1 January 2007 -- but with the strictest ...Comment
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In a historic move that could extend Europe&#39;s borders to the edge of the volatile Middle East, the European Union recommended Wednesday setting mostly Muslim Turkey
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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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Britain considers restrictions for Bulgarian and Romanian workers as the nations prepare to join the EU.
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For years, pipelines from the former Soviet Union have shipped the prosaic necessities of oil and gas to western Europe.