Even nations which have implemented serious reform programs, like the Baltic States, could make further improvements.
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Should other countries, such as the Baltic States, eventually be allowed in as well?
The alliance's ability to defend the Baltic states depends almost wholly on American involvement.
They said they were there as part of joint manoeuvres with the Baltic states' armies.
The Baltic states, Hungary and Poland went through costly banking crises in the early 1990s.
The Baltic states and Poland are also working on building a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania.
The Irish are in what can only be called a depression, along with the Baltic states and Hungary.
Apart from the Baltic states, Nato on Thursday formally invited Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to join the alliance.
The so-called "energy bridge" will be the second to connect the Baltic states to the wider EU electricity network.
In other countries, such as Poland and the Baltic states, it looked different: one occupation gave way to another.
More significantly, it has pushed NATO into agreeing to draw up military contingency plans to defend the Baltic states.
He said the cable was just the beginning of integrating the Baltic states more closely into the EU's energy network.
When completed in 2011, that pipeline will connect Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea, skirting Poland and the Baltic states.
The Baltic States demonstrate that someone in Europe is doing something right.
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The Baltic states pay cash on the nail for their gas, and offer the Russian oil industry its most efficient export routes.
The unusual weather is being caused by high pressure over Greenland and low pressure in the Baltic states, forcing cold winds across Europe.
Next is a stopover at a dressing and dyeing company in the U.S., Canada, China, Russia, Europe or one of the Baltic states.
Estonians are fearful that the facility, scheduled to be completed by 1995, will take traffic away from ports located in the Baltic states.
Still, the Baltic states are growing faster than any other part of the EU, more than can be said for the recession-hit Mediterranean.
In some parts of the world, particularly in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, flat taxes have been cited as a spark for economic growth.
Americans saw it differently, as the most inspiring event in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolt of the Baltic states.
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If not, would the United States support a bid by the Baltic states to obtain observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
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The Baltic states joined the European Union in 2004 and see international projects such as these as leading examples of how member states should co-operate on energy.
For PreussenElektra, globalization means expanding first into the Baltic states.
She said ministers also will discuss what to do to support states on Russia's borders that have already joined NATO, including Poland and the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
The rise of English as a lingua franca will not necessarily do much to diminish arguments over national languages within or between countries, in places like the Balkans or the Baltic states.
The Danish brewer also said Thursday that it was launching a number of restructuring initiatives in Denmark, Norway and the Baltic States that would result in the loss of at least 270 jobs.
Unlike parts of Central Europe or even the Baltic states, Russia has no natural constituency for market economics and property rights that is large and robust enough to prevail against the forces of conservatism.
Will the United States work with our allies to include Eastern Europe and the Baltic states in the protective safety net embodied in the May 1983 International Energy Agency Agreement, designed to keep its signatories from developing inordinate dependency on Soviet natural gas supplies?
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