How are we doing so poorly as retirement savers that we rank below an Eastern European country that only broke away from the Czech Republic two decades ago?
Yes, a money manager with an office in one European Union country has an automatic passport to all others.
The playoff between a Celtic side and an Italian side has been scrapped with the winners of the European Challenge Cup earning an extra place for their country instead.
Iommi became well known in the Eastern European country after helping produce an album to raise money after a huge earthquake in 1988.
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.
In no other European country is home-ownership such an obsession.
At roughly the same time David Ogilvy started an ad campaign for Britain, the fifth most visited European country when he started.
CAP, they have made it unlikely that any large Central European country can be admitted to the Union at an acceptable cost.
The nationalisation comes after the European Commission blocked an earlier plan that would have seen the country's other large banks, Rabobank, ING and ABN Amro, contribute capital to a so-called "bad bank" to house SNS Reaal's distressed property assets.
This is an issue that has riled Ireland's European partners, given the country's request for sovereign aid from the eurozone's rescue funds in 2010.
It hopes to do better in an election to the European Parliament next June, for which the whole country will count as a single constituency.
An importer would buy goods without VAT because they came from another European Union country.
Spain unilaterally decided to set a new fiscal-deficit target last year, prompting an angry response from European officials and sparking a sell-off in the country's bonds.
Bababcan's comments come as Turkey continues to push for European Union membership, an ambition questioned by some who point to the country's already strong economy and powerful geographical position.
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This, too, is an unfamiliar turn of events for a country that until recently saw the European charter of fundamental rights as much too lax in its defence of personal freedom.
In the past two years America and European countries have made the same mistake in Nigeria, an impoverished and unstable country emerging from years of corrupt despotism.
Like many an Iberian politician of his generation, Mr Barroso associates his country's passage into the European Union with the end of isolation and the advent of prosperity and democracy.
The African Union and the 15-country Southern African Development Community, an influential regional club, as well as the European Union and the United States, denounced a recent coup in Madagascar by Andry Rajoelina and said they would work to restore the country's constitutional order.
Further, an attempt to examine issues that relate to the criminal proceedings in Greece will seriously violate Ms Thanou's right to a fair trial and it would breach the European Convention on Human Rights and it would constitute an interference with an independent criminal procedure of a country's criminal justice system.
Amsterdam is a modern European capital with cultural cachet and an easygoing lifestyle, attracting a large immigrant population and people across the country to its historic streets.
Argentines have always liked to think of their country as more European than Latin American, and safe streets and a low crime rate played an important part in that.
The European Central Bank had threatened to cut crucial emergency assistance to the country's banks by Tuesday without an agreement.
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