Internet companies in friendly countries such as Sweden headed off many of the attacks before they even reached Estonia.
Countries that have already opened their markets, such as Sweden and Britain, agree.
Their trick could be repeated by European firms such as Sweden's Cycleurope, which owns the Bianchi and Peugeot bicycle brands.
In countries that have undergone reform and liberalisation, such as Sweden, as much as 25% of postal jobs have disappeared.
Will the citizens of EU countries outside the euro zone, such as Sweden and the U.K., be asked to chip in?
Countries such as Sweden that invest heavily and progressively in public services are more likely to prevent widening income inequality from reducing opportunity.
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There is much academic research, notably by Richard Wilkinson of Sussex University, suggesting that countries with more equal income distributions such as Sweden have healthier populations.
Lawyers are still pursuing cases against German banks and European insurers, including Swiss ones, and may soon move on to banks in other neutral countries, such as Sweden.
Some countries, such as Sweden and Australia, emerge relatively unscathed from the model, partly because of more favourable demographics but also because they have restructured their pension systems.
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It was in Swiss banks that about 85% of all Nazi gold ended up, most of it for financing Germany's war-time trade with countries such as Sweden, Portugal and Turkey.
It quickly became clear that most member states were unenthusiastic about the budget cuts though a few countries, such as Sweden and the Netherlands, welcomed the idea and downright hostile to Britain's rebate.
One way of wrong-footing Mr Milosevic would be to offer to take part in a run-off, but only one properly supervised by outside observers from respected neutral countries, such as Sweden or Switzerland.
The proposal has caused a rift between advocates of greenery, such as Sweden, and countries with large chemical industries, such as France, Germany and Britain, which think that the cost of such regulation may far exceed the benefits.
Judging by the experience of other rich countries that have suffered financial crises spawned by housing busts, such as Sweden and Norway in the early 1990s, weak balance sheets will weigh on consumers' spending for years rather than months.
The list of winners includes some big global brand names, such as Sweden's Volvo , which makes heavy trucks--Volvo's auto business was sold to Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) in 1999--and gained 68%.
If a firm is headquartered in a country where trust is prevalent (such as Sweden), it is much more likely to decentralize its decision making than if it is headquartered in a country in which trust is rarer (such as India).
Some of its rivals, such as Sweden's Ericsson, have already transferred all their mobile-telephone production to subcontractors rather than trying to keep up with the research and development spending and technical infrastructure needed to continue to make them on their own.
Alas this happy ploy is more or less confined to countries such as Sweden, where ministers resign for forgetting to pay television-licence fees, and members of parliament perch in tiny, state-owned bedsits while working in the capital: 72% of Danes and 66% of Swedes duly told a 2010 Eurobarometer poll they trusted national parliaments.
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Most of the world followed suit, with countries such as socialist Sweden hacking away at their sky-high tax levies.
England paid the price for such profligacy as Sweden - galvanised by substitutes Labinot Harbuzi, Robin Soder and Molins - gradually chipped away at the deficit.
Research for the Utility Regulator showed the price was double that paid in countries such as France and Sweden.
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By 2008, small numbers of the Palestinians from these camps had begun trickling in to places such as Iceland and Sweden.
They base their argument on cases in the 1990s, when countries such as Canada to Sweden cut their deficits and boomed.
It vanished in countries such as Norway and Sweden, where the sexes are more or less on a par with one another.
U.K allies such as Poland, Sweden and the Netherlands are wary of being identified with what is perceived to be British obstructionism.
A. The countries that did not join the euro, such as Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway are still enjoying good economic growth.
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But up until now, the UK's resistance to granting prisoners the vote sets it apart from countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland who have no such restrictions.
Other countries such as Britain, Sweden and Japan in the late 1980s have also seen sharp slumps in net saving when they experienced asset-price bubbles (whether in housing or stockmarkets).
The remainder of the top ten is rounded out by emerging nations like Colombia and Saudi Arabia and members of the European old guard such as Germany, Sweden and France.
She said the changes would bring the UK into line with countries such as France and Sweden and that England's current higher ratios meant lower pay for staff and higher costs for parents.
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