Their first question is for help in obtaining a visa to a European country.
Senior European officials say Europe can't let a European country collapse, even if it leaves the euro.
Not so long ago, I was speaking with a European country-head of a major global telecoms network operator who was enthusiastically endorsing Huawei as a value-chain partner.
Norway and Switzerland might arguably do even better in the EU, but they still show that an extra-EU existence for a European country does not mean destitution.
The company is simply generating too much cash and unless they are going to do a large merger, initiate a mega-stock buyback, or bail out a European country or two, there is nothing else for them to do with that much cash.
In contrast, the portion accruing to corporate profits was the biggest since 1950, showing companies are hoarding cash as concern grows that a European country will default on its debt and that deficit-reduction gridlock in Washington will continue, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
In terms of its geography, history, culture, mentality, Russia is a European country, of course we are counting on and will seek to expand our cooperation with the EU. This aspiration is fully appreciated and supported by all the leading EU countries and the leadership of the European Commission.
Is it really possible that a Western European country would criminalize speech that insults a group of people for their anti-Dutch beliefs?
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This does not challenge at least directly NATO's main promise, of American help against an attack on a European member country.
Think of the responsibility if France, a European founder country, took the risk of shattering the union of our continent.
To the extent they are trying to turn us into a Western European country, we are not going to be helpful.
Another change is that Britain may now extradite a suspect to a European Union country even if his alleged crime is not illegal in Britain.
Consumers have been advised to dispose of any cans of food they may have in their cupboards that contain beef from a specified European country of origin.
That is a national humiliation for a major European country.
Cyprus had become the main conduit for Russians doing business overseas over the past two decades because of its lower corporate-tax rate and the stronger legal protections offered by a European Union country.
"In Serbia, we have very high real interest rates and a country that is reforming to become a more standard European country, " Mr. Cirami says.
But let's see if that line crumbles when a really big European country, like Italy or Spain, gets into trouble.
The potential for a xenophobic party exists in every European state whether a country has a triple A credit rating, as the Netherlands does, or a country is on the brink of bankruptcy, as Greece is.
Cyprus, with its entry in the EU, has safeguarded its future as a free country in the European political arena and if this is a price we have to pay then my opinion is that we have to do it - and pay.
On her calculations, rates of marriages with a person from another European Union country have been flat in Belgium and the Netherlands since 2000 and shown only a modest rise in Spain.
Watch a movie from any European country these days, and you will usually see Canal Plus's name attached.
He is in favour of a link-up with a bank from another European country, which he says would create more value for shareholders.
But Greece is far from alone in facing this issue, even if it is doing so at a scale no other European country suffers.
At the time, other big cross-border banks, such as Fortis, a Benelux bank, and Dexia, a Belgo-Dutch bank, were in deep trouble, and there were growing concerns among European officials that a country could be overwhelmed if it was home to a big international bank that failed.
France is not the only European country with a wealth tax Spain, Finland, Luxembourg and Sweden have them too but it is alone in having raised it.
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The United States is not in a position to help the European Union right now, the country has a great deal of debt and is still running large deficits.
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Moscow has signalled to at least one Eastern European country that a steady energy supply from the Soviet Union could be jeopardized if cooperation on other fronts was less than satisfactory.
Besides galleries in the U.S., those in Switzerland, the only non-EU European country with a vibrant art market, also stand to benefit, says Anthony Browne, head of the British Art Market Federation, a coalition of dealers and auction houses.
In a Pew Global Opinion survey last year, Slovaks were more enthusiastic than Americans, Swedes or Britons about multinational companies, with 72% agreeing that big foreign companies were good for their country, a European record (55% of French respondents thought foreign firms were bad for them, setting a record in the opposite direction).
"There is a general political sentiment that it is not acceptable to be bailing out a country, and thereby putting European taxpayers' money at risk, to basically protect Russian depositors in Cypriot banks, " he said.
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