The promise of European Union membership encouraged institutional reform in central and eastern Europe.
The Commission is investigating three suspected anti-competitive practices in Central and Eastern Europe.
Some 20, 000 such firms have invested in Central and Eastern Europe, largely to escape steep wage bills at home.
EU, which has done most to secure it in central and eastern Europe.
The UK must end "discriminatory" rules for workers from the new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe, says the European Commission.
Like other Austrian firms, Voestalpine has been doing a lot of business in central and eastern Europe since the iron curtain was lifted.
Several years back he founded another company, publicly traded Central European Media Enterprises, to invest in television stations in central and eastern Europe.
There are clearly good reasons for local regulators to fret if they face heavy exposures to foreign banks (as in central and eastern Europe).
Western assistance to consolidate democracy and free enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe is in danger of being shunted aside in favor of the Soviet Union.
CME, the biggest television company in Central and Eastern Europe.
The EU's main audit body has criticised the way EU farm subsidies are allocated in Central and Eastern Europe, saying the recipients include estate agents, airports and hunting clubs.
Now the new member states - mainly in Central and Eastern Europe - that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007, will have to embrace the new animal welfare standards.
However, as you can see in the following chart, while Russia has not outperformed every country in Central and Eastern Europe, it has done better than quite a few of them.
Moreover, all the main support measures undertaken in Central and Eastern Europe, like the Vienna Initiative, for instance, were not legally binding agreements, but based on voluntary participation within a multilateral framework.
Is it also possible that local affiliates, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, were in fact funded by resources provided by multilateral institutions to those countries rather than through the internal capital markets?
George Soros's Open Society programme offers one modest solution: it tops up the pay of a small group of elite public-sector workers who have returned to countries in Central and Eastern Europe after being educated abroad.
In central and eastern Europe too, where loans rose at twice the rate of nominal GDP between 2000 and 2007, they hit a brick wall in 2008 as overextended banks ran out of funding and bad debts mounted.
Austria's central bank has said that Austrian bank subsidiaries in central and eastern Europe should not exceed a loan-to-deposit ratio of 110%, a way of ensuring that their funding needs do not make too great a call on resources back at headquarters.
With the additional bandwidth, Cisco expects huge growth in data consumption by 2016, with growth up 3x in North America and Western Europe, 4x in Asia Pacific, 5x in Central and Eastern Europe, 7x in Latin America and 10x in Middle East and Africa.
There are, however, problems to resolve: participation is not as high as it could be, with new member states in central and eastern Europe among the conspicuously missing, and uncertainty about the next round of allocations is holding back companies in western Europe too.
As a result, the budget agreement may have damaged some of the most important relationships within the EU. For the past decade, close ties between Britain and the new members in central and eastern Europe have been founded on Britain's campaign for their membership.
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In April 2007 when Poland and Ukraine were announced as joint hosts amidst roaring celebrations in Cardiff, Uefa hoped that the decision would aid the development of football infrastructure in central and eastern Europe where it isn't as developed as in the west but where the passion for the game is equally strong.
In Central and South Eastern Europe, almost one in five young people are unemployed.
Under such circumstances, it is absurd to contemplate, to say nothing of actually initiating, the dismantling of one of the most powerful devices available to help effect such transformations in both Central and Eastern Europe.
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The number of poor people had also been rising (from much lower levels) in Latin America and in eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Germany's very close ties with Russia - political as well as in major energy and business deals - also cause unease in the states of Central and Eastern Europe.
It took in more than a million ethnic Germans from central and eastern Europe in 1945-50, as well as hundreds of thousands of refugees from Hungary and Czechoslovakia after the troubles there in 1956 and 1968 respectively.
Anti-trust agency alleges that Gazprom was abusing its dominant market share in upstream natural gas markets throughout Central and Eastern Europe in particular.
In short, central and eastern Europe, whose nations once championed a strong relationship between their continent and America, could quickly become introverted, isolated and unhelpful.
The study is based on research on 250 fortunes in 22 countries in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, as well as interviews with billionaires from these emerging markets, editors of Forbes international editions and Forbes wealth analysts.
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