Eligible countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia and Turkey.
Italy follows fellow eurozone countries Spain, the Republic of Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Cyprus in having its credit rating downgraded this year.
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The conference will comprise museum directors and experts from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey.
Member nations are: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Since 2008 the eurozone has been badly bruised by the massive bailouts provided for Greece, the Republic of Ireland and Portugal.
Cyprus is the fifth country after Greece, the Republic of Ireland, Portugal and Spain to turn to the eurozone for financial help during the region's debt crisis.
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Ministers and high level officials, experts of science, higher education and research from 11 South East European countries will participate: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.
The economic turmoil in the eurozone, which has seen several countries including Greece, Portugal and the Republic of Ireland need international financial help, has hurt car sales in the region.
The conference will comprise museum directors and experts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Republic of Serbia, Slovenia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Turkey.
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But there you have the big contrast between them: the Irish Republic and Greece will have had three successive years of decline, and are looking at a flat or falling economy in 2011, whereas the OECD is predicting more than 2% growth for Iceland this year and in 2012.
Ministries of culture from 13 countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Turkey) will gather to present the respective policies and measures to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage in their respective countries, and to enhance this heritage as a driver for intercultural dialogue and sustainable development.
But in basic economic terms, Iceland appears to have come out of the crisis better than the other two European countries who came into it with clearly unsustainable amounts of private or public debt: the Irish Republic and Greece.
The Item Club said that unresolved worries about the global economy, with Greece a major threat to the financial system and the Republic of Ireland a particular worry to UK banks, were likely to hold back UK business investment.
The scientists are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and funding agencies in the Czech Republic, Greece, India, Russia and the United Kingdom.
From the city states of Sumeria, Classical Greece, and Renaissance Italy, to the Dutch Republic, lands with decentralized governance have fostered great gains in science, industry and arts.
This is the very first time that national history museums from South-East Europe and beyond - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - come together to put in perspective and compare their collections and their national histories.
Of the heavily-indebted so-called PIIGS (Portugal, the Irish Republic, Italy, Greece and Spain) countries, Irish shares fared best.
Walked the streets of Europe: Paris, Greece, Spain, Germany, England, Italy, Czech Republic.
Greece argues that the former Yugoslavia republic's name suggests a claim to the Greek province of Macedonia.
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