The economies of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia probably shrank last year, the European Commission estimates.
Such taxpayer financial assistance to a non-democratic government means the diversion of resources that should instead be available for the emerging democracies of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Republic of Lithuania.
Certainly the Czech Republic appears at the top of the list, along with Hungary and Poland, as among the most visited, experienced and reliable destinations for cosmetic-surgery tourism among Europeans, Americans and nationals from other countries with rapidly growing middle classes.
After being artificially cut off from Europe by the dead hand of state socialism, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, and (my ancestral homeland of) Lithuania had regained their rightful place in the world and taken a very large step away from their troubled history of Russian and Soviet domination.
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This means that, even if we accept the optimistic forecast provided by the Ukrainian government itself, the country would still be importing about 1, 850 billion cubic feet a year, more than the combined 2008 natural gas imports of Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary (which are cumulatively about 1, 600 billion cubic feet of natural gas for a population of about 93.5 million).
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While the United States stands firm on limiting this round of expansion to Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the NATO official said a final decision will be made only after debate among the leaders of the NATO countries that could be preceded by a meeting of NATO foreign ministers Tuesday morning.
Unilateral or accelerated adoption of the euro would make far less sense for a third group of bigger countries with floating exchange rates: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
On the contrary, Democracy will succeed in Iraq but only if the free nations of the West stand with the Iraqi people, support and help them the way we did the people of Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Baltics, and now Ukraine.
On the contrary, Democracy will succeed in Iraq -- but only if the free nations of the West stand with the Iraqi people, support and help them the way we did the people of Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Baltics, and now Ukraine.
Unless the way commission places are allotted is changed, then after the next wave of enlargement - possibly bringing in Poland, Hungary, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Solvenia.
New pre-school programmes in several countries, notably the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, now help Romany-speaking tots to learn the main language of the country in which they live before starting primary school, so saving them from the special schools and a life of at best menial labour.
By admitting the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland into the alliance several years ago, NATO gave these states that fundamental sense of security that comes from having concrete, formal ties to the West, which has been essential to the successes they have currently achieved.
In practice only three can be certain of an invitation: Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
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Then Bill Clinton declared he would support only Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic as new members of the alliance.
These extra-budgetary resources were generously granted by Bulgaria, Cyprus, Flanders (Belgium), Hungary, Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the European Union.
Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland and Hungary provide up to three years of paid leave for mothers.
Most analysts doubt that Central Europe's biggest countries Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have a chance of meeting the 3% deficit limit by 2007.
The EPP did well, thanks to strong centre-right showings in some of the new members, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
As members in good standing of the European Union, both Hungary and the Czech Republic have already successfully implemented legal and political reforms far more sweeping than those Russia is likely to get under any concievable scenario.
Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, bits of Poland, have long been part of our economic and cultural area.
And it has fewer farmers and coal-miners clamouring for subsidies, as they do in most of the other applicant countries (Cyprus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Estonia).
LSE's chairman, told a risk-capital conference that up to 5% of mid-sized firms in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic could go public in the next five to ten years.
It has been closely involved with preparations for membership by the five most developed Eastern European countries - Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia - and the three Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who are all expected to join the EU in 2004.
Now that many of its beneficiaries notably Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are probably only a few years from joining the European Union, the bank needs to shift its attention eastwards, with rather more emphasis on countries such as Russia and the former states of the Soviet Union.
The firm said it had also issued "a sales stop" of the concerned batch in Sweden, Denmark, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland.
They are Cyprus, Estonia and Hungary, generally reckoned the best prepared of the bunch, together with the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia.
Looking at the above figures, why would anyone expect there to be a sustained wave of pro-Western enthusiasm, so that Russia can be more like Hungary and the Czech Republic?
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Meanwhile, after Malta and the UK, the countries with the highest instances of male obesity were Hungary - where 21.4% fall into that category - and the Czech Republic, where 18.4% are classed as such.
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