U. member, one wonders if Poland and other former Eastern Bloc countries have really turned the corner in economic development and conducting business.

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Living in post-Franco Spain, along with his visits to former Eastern Bloc countries like Hungary and Romania, taught him something about dictatorships in transition, he says.

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The idea of applying these fracing techniques to Europe is appealing, especially in Eastern and Central Europe, where the former Soviet bloc countries still largely depend on imported natural gas from Russia for domestic consumption.

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While Russia and some African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries want to tax foreign content providers and track web-based traffic, the EU has formed a bloc with the US to kibosh any such changes.

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