Two European countries are taking inspiration from the London Games to help with their bids to host major sporting events.
Only two European countries have imposed quotas for women in elections.
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.
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.
The two countries joined the European Union in 2007 and are the union's newest members, until Croatia joins during 2013.
In January, Russia cut off gas supplies to more than a dozen European countries for two weeks, amid a row with Kiev.
The restrictions were first put in place in 2007 when the two countries became members of the European Union.
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Only two countries are above the western European average: Slovenia, thanks to its wealth, and Turkey, because of its booming birthrate.
The last Labour government agreed transitional controls on immigration from the two Balkan countries when they joined the European Union in 2007, but these expire next year.
But centuries ago, the great powers were almost always at war, and until quite recently, Western European countries tended to initiate two or three new wars every year.
Greece has been dependent since May 2010 on funds from two international rescue loan deals with other European Union countries and the International Monetary Fund, in return for which it imposed a series of deep spending cuts and tax hikes.
Just as Eurovision's organisers are planning a two-tier song contest from next year, with only those countries that survive a qualifying round going through to the finals, the convention has been discussing a two-tier European Commission, in which smaller countries would lose their automatic right to nominate a commissioner.
These NGOs proposed that Canada, Australia and some European Union countries take the residents of two smaller camps, one inside Syria and another in a no man's land at the Iraq-Syria border crossing.
Indeed, the two countries, which have been the motor of European integration, have never been more at odds over how to restore confidence and revive growth in the eurozone.
In a recent paper, we found that bilateral trade between European countries depends positively on the probability that two randomly chosen individuals, one from each country, would be able to communicate with each other in English.
The two countries are already involved in bitter disputes with the European Union over the banning of some GM products and North American meat reared with hormones.
More than 600 exhibitors from 40 countries are displaying their games -- 20% more exhibitors than two years ago and 40% more countries connecting with the European gaming audience.
The game pitted two countries that have been at the center of the European debt crisis, a showdown between the euro zone's most cash-strapped nation against its Teutonic task- and paymaster.
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However in many continental European countries, such as Germany, there are two boards, an Executive Board made up of company representatives and a Supervisory Board made up of non-executive representatives of shareholders and employees.
The two countries still stand at opposite poles in the politics of European defence.
January's dispute between the two countries disrupted gas supplies to western Europe, prompting the European Union to review its approach to energy security.
She said that the UK had been unlucky to develop two particularly virulent strains, which had spread rapidly in comparison with strains in other European countries.
Among the wealthy countries called upon to finance the enlargement, only two member states showed how European they were yesterday: Germany, which is prepared to increase its already large contribution, and little Belgium, which is very Community minded...
Compiled by PwC during the last three months of 2007, the poll suggests a "tale of two worlds", with business confidence slumping in developed economies like the United States and many European countries.
Until now, France and Slovenia were the only two countries to have opted out from this measure of financial transparency, already implemented at a European level.
Those two countries refused to let Jersey officers plant an audio bug saying it was a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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