R.5: The element is included in the national inventory of intangible cultural heritage of the Republic of Estonia that is administered by the Estonian Folk Culture Development and Training Centre.

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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.

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The first, comprising the poorest eight new members - Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Malta - will have a fifth of the EU population but on average just 42% of the GNP per capita.

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He visited Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic as part of the congressional trip.

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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.

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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).

ECONOMIST: Slovenia

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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They are Cyprus, Estonia and Hungary, generally reckoned the best prepared of the bunch, together with the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia.

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