Bank Austria and Raiffeisen have also been pushing hard into less developed south-eastern Europe, where margins but also credit risks are higher.
But given that Albanian nationalism is unmistakably a rising force in south-eastern Europe, it is helpful to have some guide to its leading personalities.
To a western world whose darkest fear is that south-eastern Europe will slide into anarchy, a strongman who can deliver may seem preferable to chaos.
President Bill Clinton completed a five-day trip through south-eastern Europe.
But as long as commitments to south-eastern Europe remain at their current level, don't expect much help from Britain in the event of, say, another crisis in the Gulf.
NATO's relative success in Bosnia and its embrace of new, ex-communist members, has given way to a mood of determination to set some limit to the disaster now unfolding in south-eastern Europe.
At this week's conference in Brussels on economic development in south-eastern Europe, there was much talk some of it sensible about the need for bridges, roads, railway links and the like to create inter-dependence.
Romania, once a breadbasket, could with its 23m people be a powerhouse of south-eastern Europe, just as Poland with nearly 40m has emerged incontestably as the new dynamo of east-central Europe between Germany and Belarus-Russia.
For better or worse, Mr Clinton aroused stronger emotions in south-eastern Europe than any other western politician would have done with the possible exception of Britain's Tony Blair, who is taken seriously because of his closeness to America.
With an inter-confessional divide pitting Orthodox Serbs and Greeks against Muslim Bosnians and Turks looming in south-eastern Europe, Albania stands out as a country where Muslims (who form a slight majority), Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians get along reasonably well.
That is why the governments who are about to send soldiers to Macedonia ought to have done a better job of explaining to their citizens how violence in this corner of south-eastern Europe has the potential to engulf the entire region.
Ms. Elisabeta Kanceska Mileska, Minister of Culture of The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, invited the Director-General, to the next Summit of the Heads of States of South-Eastern Europe in Ohrid on 1-2 June 2013, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the first Summit.
The Ministerial Conference followed the international experts' working group, consisting of representatives of Ministries of Culture, and proposed to establish a new unified ministerial platform on culture and development in South-Eastern Europe, in cooperation with UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the European Union, and with the goal to advance common objectives and create synergies amongst the various existing ministerial cooperation mechanisms.
Once again, the seven FEI zones of the world come into play: North-West Europe, South-West Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North America, Central and South America, Africa and the Middle East, and South-East Asia and Oceania.
Youth unemployment is expected to rise in emerging economies in Eastern Europe, East and South-East Asia and the Middle East, according to the report.
Roughly half of all South-East Asian migrants are thought to have remained in the neighbourhood, and nearly two-thirds of migrants from eastern Europe and Central Asia have stayed in their own region.
Stein traces their involvement, at least in South Africa, to the massive migration of Jews from Eastern Europe, particularly Russia-controlled Lithuania.
Journey times to Europe and America will be three or four days less than from south-eastern ports.
Sixty percent of those who flocked to the site were abroad, in South America, Eastern Europe and Africa, places where people often have to buy top-up cards at corner stores for their cell service or pay online with credit cards (which they may not have).
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