These happen to be the areas where Central and Eastern European countries have their biggest comparative advantage.
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Hong Kong and a number of central and eastern European countries provide ample models for Mexico to emulate.
Central and Eastern European countries know that the twists of history have not ended, that seemingly benign times can quickly turn ominous.
Mr Chirac has not enjoyed the arrival of new central and eastern European countries, and is under pressure over the possible opening of negotiations with Turkey.
The Centre will provide advanced training and research for scientists from Central and Eastern European countries, and will also reach out to scientists from the least developed countries in Africa.
The committee added that the fall of the Berlin Wall had made EU membership possible for several Central and Eastern European countries, thereby opening a new era in European history.
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"Just a few years ago, these countries were untouchables, " says Simon Mandel, who follows Central and Eastern European countries for Auerbach Grayson, a New York broker-dealer that specializes in emerging and frontier markets.
In particular, attention has returned to sovereign credit risk, particularly in the eurozone and its periphery, where weaker countries, like Greece and the more indebted of the Central and Eastern European countries, are under pressure.
She became a strong supporter of eastern and central European countries joining the European Union.
The second is a round of enlargement that will bring in a different set of new members: not, as on previous occasions, other more-or-less prosperous West European countries, but the far poorer ex-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
"A lot will have arisen from new European Union (EU) members in part after 2004 when countries from Eastern and Central Europe joined, " he said.
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