By taking in eastern countries with lower labour costs and workers who are far more mobile than their western cousins, the EU in effect brought globalisation within its own borders.
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Bosch, the Stuttgart company that is Europe's leading parts-maker and one of the world's top five, has factories in ten eastern countries.
For example, a letter sent by Jeffrey Collins, the U.S. attorney in Detroit, to men from Middle Eastern and predominately Muslim countries in eastern Michigan, strikes a solicitous note.
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Peugeot's parts manufacturing arm, Faurecia, has factories in five eastern European countries as well as one in Turkey.
The malware targeted Android owners in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries in eastern Europe.
In some Middle Eastern countries, expatriates outnumber locals by as much as 6 to 1.
On a side note, he said the riots in some Middle Eastern countries, known as the Arab Spring, have had an impact on gasoline prices.
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Well clearly it altered the world economy in the short term, and the trading status of several middle eastern countries in the medium and long term.
Poor infrastructure, clumsy regulation and wayward judiciaries mean that doing business in Latin America remains more difficult and costly than in many countries in Asia or eastern Europe, with which it competes.
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It is also in the midst of cutting back desperately needed oil supplies to countries in Eastern Europe such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria by some 20-30 percent.
In some southern African countries, half of new mothers could soon die of AIDS. Epidemics are emerging in China, India, eastern Europe and countries in the former Soviet Union.
Running along the bed of the Baltic Sea, it would circumvent troublesome transit countries in eastern Europe.
According to Peel, the problem for Europe is its "dramatic expansion" to take in all the eastern European countries.
Other Iranian goods gaining increased market share in Middle Eastern and Asian countries include automobiles, minerals, and construction materials.
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The U.S. probably should have similar roles in various other Middle Eastern countries.
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Since then eight other countries in eastern and central Europe have followed suit.
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Moreover, after the next enlargement to take in countries from Eastern Europe, a Europe of different speeds is surely inevitable.
Only a handful of countries in eastern Europe were affected, but the sense of insecurity spread right across the continent.
Dedicatexpress was just one of many, many sites run out of countries in Eastern Europe that made up the underground economy, said Mr Ferguson.
Will men and women be able to mingle freely in the developments as they do in the West or in many other Middle Eastern countries?
This has acted as a powerful spur to countries in Eastern Europe, most of whom have got rid of their death-penalty laws in the past few years.
The euro remains the natural currency (for historic, political and geographic reasons) for emerging market countries in Eastern Europe, parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
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In 13 countries of eastern and southern Africa that are regarded by the World Health Organisation as being priority areas for the procedure, over half a million men were circumcised explicitly for AIDS protection between 2008 and 2010.
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.
But in some other countries - particularly in southern and eastern Europe - climate was not widely discussed.
Americans and Europeans were more interested in entertainment and customer service while respondents from Asian and Middle-Eastern countries were more interested in coupons.
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It claimed to have evidence of covert CIA camps in at least eight countries, some of them in eastern Europe.
It has since acquired 12, 000 users in 90 countries, mostly in outsourcing hotbeds like Eastern Europe, South America and Asia.
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Eight others are still at large in Canada or in Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries.
Flamer, has been found infecting machines in a number of Middle Eastern countries.
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