The Eastern Europe shield plan also called for the interceptors in Poland and Romania to be complemented by deployed naval ships in the Mediterranean.
The Pentagon claims that the change to delay the Eastern Europe missile shield had nothing to do with trying to assuage Russia, and everything to do with the North Korean threat.
That on the one hand you've got a sort of Atlantic Europe, with five countries including Britain, plus all the new countries from the Eastern Europe, and you've got a sort of Brussels Europe, or European Europe, which is sort of France, Germany and Belgium and so on.
Given the strategic importance of the energy sector and the Soviet Union's capacity -- and willingness -- to apply leverage in this area on the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe, it is clearly not in the interest of the West or the governments of Eastern Europe to enhance that capability.
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And these will be modeled on funds that supported the transitions in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Of even greater importance have been Western radio broadcasts, particularly those beamed to the peoples of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China.
If anything, that commitment has become broader and more challenging following the liberation of Eastern Europe and the outbreak of a major war on the continent.
The EBRD's job is to aid the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union with the transition to a market economy by encouraging private investment.
During the vulnerable period of supply diversification, a hedge against potential energy supply short-falls could be created through the creation of an alliance-wide Contingency Energy Fund for the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
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In return for the 25% stake Kraft had bought in United Biscuits in April 2000, the Northfield, Illinois-based food company also gets the rights to all Nabisco trademarks, including Ritz crackers, in the EU, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Arvind Subramanian, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think-tank in Washington, DC, argues that the recession in eastern Europe sounds the death knell for one of the two main growth strategies of the past 20 years capital-account liberalisation (growth through exports is the other).
Compared with the problems Eastern Europe's banks have already experienced, however, those difficulties are likely to seem almost minor.
"The rise of Eastern Europe--the band from the Baltic nations all the way down to the Balkans--has been the major story of the last five years, " he says.
Uefa President Michel Platini was determined to take the tournament to Eastern Europe because of the much needed boost it will undoubtedly bring to football in the region.
In the rest of eastern Europe people remember the brand from communist times, but with a shudder, so Renault has had to reassure buyers that this car is different.
With the Brady Debt Reduction Plan already facing mounting criticism by both commercial banks and developing countries, it is no time for the enthusiasm over Eastern Europe to prevent the United States from looking to its larger interests in promoting democracy and markets throughout the developing world.
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Toward that end, they have (among numerous other concessions) signaled a willingness to cashier the deployment in Eastern Europe of missile defenses that the Russians claim, preposterously, to find threatening.
At the same time as Hitler indulged his peculiar hatred of Jews he also pursued his mad design of decapitating the societies of Eastern Europe so as to leave the common people as serfs to be used in the German service.
And 20 years later, in the 1980s, America led by President Reagan refused to accept the fate of millions trapped behind an Iron Curtain, and insisted instead that the people of Eastern Europe be allowed to join the ranks of nations which live safe, strong and free.
The zebra mussel from Eastern Europe is the most notorious and probably most damaging to the environment.
He is widely seen as the man who freed Eastern Europe from the USSR and put a lid on the Cold War.
Even with the economic growth throughout Eastern Europe and the Balkans, 1 million pounds can still get you a central Prague penthouse overlooking the Vltava River.
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The U.S., the western world, and the media need to be raising awareness on this issue as they rightly did with the colored revolutions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics.
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Copies of Robinson's testimony on "U.S. Trade Relations with the USSR and Eastern Europe" may be obtained by contacting the Center.
If the guilt of other labellers, further down the food chain gets them off the hook this time, people across the whole of Eastern Europe will have cause for celebration - if the Dutch or French or even Welshmen shoulder the blame.
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House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt is just the latest in a growing chorus urging extensive technology assistance to the nations of Eastern Europe who have displayed no ability to prevent the transfer of dual use equipment to Moscow and even directly to the USSR, itself.
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Soviet oil production, the most strategic sector of the civilian economy, is declining which bodes ill for meeting the rigid requirements of the domestic economy, Eastern Europe, and the crucial hard currency export market.
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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.
Yet ever since the triumph of democracy in eastern Europe, the church has often appeared to the secular world to be slipping behind the train of history.
As the people of Eastern Europe have come to enjoy greater freedom of expression in recent months, it has been possible for the first time to take stock of just how successful Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty have been at complementing the official information outlet of the U.S. government the Voice of America (VOA).
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