Manufacturing companies scramble to Latvia, Eastern Europe
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Like moths to a nightlight, the European Uniona s 10 new member countries are attracting new manufacturing companies from across Europe.
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BusinessWeek Online - Outsiders haven't been allowed a glimpse yet. But rivals are already feeling uneasy. Deep in the Czech Republic, in a town called Kolin, Europe's newest auto plant is being put through its final paces before a March debut. The ultra-low-cost manufacturing joint venture between Toyota Motor Corp.  and PSA Peugeot Citroen (peugy.pk.PK) -- combining Japanese production expertise with French parts-purchasing might in Europe -- is sure to up the ante for volume auto makers, who already have to worry about surviving on razor-thin margins. ...
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Two local logistics operators last week announced plans to expand their activities in countries further east - moves that come in line with predictions and decisions by other industry players.
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Number of students is on the rise among the schools with Latvian as the language of instruction.
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The emigration during the past few years of over two million Romanians hoping to find a well-paid job in the West is now forcing Romanian companies to look to neighbouring countries, and even as far as China, to counter a labour deficit at home.
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MOVING companies are taking Western firm's staff and operations to new regions with the opening and development of the economies of Eastern Europe and Asia.
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Global offshoring of IT services, manufacturing, and other business functions will continue to grow over the next three years, with countries in Eastern Europe taking on India and China as leading destinations, according to a recent report.
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TRNAVA, Slovakia  - As Europe's car manufacturing has shifted from west to east in the past decade, Slovakia has earned a reputation as a Detroit in the heart of Europe.
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Metso Paper will deliver equipment for groundwood pulp and paper making processes to Myllykoski Group's paper mills in Germany, Finland and the United States.
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"They now probably beat all records so far. A year ago the situation was similarly tough"  RUSSIAN trucks have queued up for 100 kilometers at the Finnish border ahead of the holiday season, prompting the Nordic nation to ask the European Union for help eliminating the record blockage. via Shanghai Daily
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Gazprom has spun a web of control over energy supplies extending from Estonia on the Baltic Sea to Bulgaria on the Black Sea.
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A once-ailing heavy industry is now in heavy demand. The next step? Global consolidation. For the last decade, much of the West&#39;s steel industry has been in the doldrums.
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As nine Eastern and Central European countries join Schengen today, they are under pressure to toughen long-abused visa policies.
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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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Eastern Europeans are becoming the mainstay of hard-to-fill jobs in Britain's rural areas, research suggests.
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Two summers ago, I returned from a visit to Eastern Europe convinced that Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were on the fast track to prosperity. It seemed to me -- and virtually every one of the Western business executives I spoke with -- that these countries had tasted enough of...
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In the wake of the expansion of the European Union with 10 additional states, attention has been fixed on the development of the pharmaceutical industry in these and other Eastern European states.