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In the years since, Russia has annexed Crimea and destabilized eastern Ukraine.
Twelve of the 15 countries reneged on promises not to restrict worker flows from the new members as they realized that Austria and Germany were closing their borders to immigration from their eastern neighbors.
Europe’s Russia ProblemNEW YORK – How should Europe react to the rise of a hostile Russia on its eastern flank?
Ukraine, in particular, is in a perilous state, but financing public works that would create jobs in eastern Ukraine, where the steel industry is in distress, could make a major difference both politically and economically.
The relationship between Central and Eastern European countries and the Jewish people has always been characterized by both triumph and tragedy.
Bahrain is the Kingdom’s most loyal ally in the region, and the Saudis fear that sectarian unrest could spread to the country’s eastern region, where a Shia-minority nurses long-held grievances.
Instead of speaking reasonably of finding solutions to the country’s problems that would accommodate the needs and interests of all of its citizens, the new government abolished Russian as eastern Ukraine’s official second language and intimated that it would soon eliminate its traditional autonomy as well.
On Europe’s eastern border, only nine of the 44 tanks promised for the Bundeswehr unit that is supposed to anchor NATO’s 5,000-strong rapid-reaction force in the Baltics next year are fit for use.
Of course, it is not very difficult to envisage the voluntary reincorporation of the ethnic Russian populations of Belarus, eastern Ukraine, and northern Kazakhstan into the Russian Federation – but only in a context in which Russia emerges as a true regional leader on a par with the EU.
Not anymore: currently, Congo’s eastern province of North Kivu is in the headlines almost every day.
The renewed fighting, coming eight months after a promising peace initiative known as the “Goma Agreement,” means more civilian deaths and little chance of normality returning to the eastern part of Congo.
Putin knew that he could take advantage of Ukraine's ethno-religious division (the eastern regions are overwhelmingly Russian Orthodox and loyal to the Kremlin) to undermine these efforts.
Now, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, he is shrewdly forcing a divided and risk-averse West to choose between war and accommodation.
The Mohamed Ali dynasty’s first six decades in power created an Egyptian empire that stretched from the sources of the Nile in east Africa to the eastern parts of Turkey, including the entire eastern Mediterranean and two-thirds of what is today Saudi Arabia.
The discredited election results suggested that the country is geographically and ethnically divided, with the democratic opposition candidate Yushchenko winning overwhelmingly in seventeen western and central regions, while Yanukovych dominated in ten eastern and southern regions.
This is to say nothing of the immediate threat posed by the ongoing military conflict with Russia-backed rebels in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
Regional groups of countries in eastern, southern, and western Africa are all giving priority to the idea of creating a monetary union.
But at the very moment when even slightest glance at the crisis-ridden region on Europe’s eastern flank – Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Middle East conflict, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, Islamic terrorism, emigration, and threats to Europe’s energy supplies – should make clear Turkey’s paramount importance to European security, Europe is reveling in its disinterest in the state of European-Turkish relations.
Second, just as Austria needed a settlement between Germans and Slavs, the EU needs to repeat the Franco-German reconciliation of 1952 between its largest western and eastern members, Germany and Poland.
An unwillingness to lend and expensive loans in foreign currencies are a real burden to eastern balance sheets.
(In light of events in eastern Ukraine, it is perhaps advisable not to inquire too closely about Russia’s views.)
Perhaps the coastal areas of South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and China’s eastern seaboard share some common cultural characteristics and a similar economic strategy.
After Sochi, Putin, incensed by the ouster of pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, went for the geostrategic gold, annexing Crimea and installing separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine.
For the first time since 2004, there is a fragile alignment of the political stars over the eastern Mediterranean.
And for the island’s eastern neighbors, plagued by unspeakable violence, an accord would serve as a demonstration that the demons unleashed by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire can be peacefully put to rest.
Indeed, German big businesses have been the main obstacle to imposing the type of systemic sanctions that might have dissuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin from annexing Crimea and continuing to back the insurgency (which Russia itself incited) in eastern Ukraine.
The idea of using a wealth tax to overcome Europe’s debt crisis also has considerable support on the eastern side of the Rhine River, but for different reasons.
Even with this year’s marked contraction of some central and eastern European countries’ economies, their accession to the EU boosted its overall economic growth, with the European Commission estimating that GDP in the new member states increased by extra 1.75 percentage points in the period 2004-2009.
Indeed, by 2007, central and eastern Europe had become the second most important export destination for euro-zone countries.
Expansion of the euro zone has therefore been slow, especially in central and eastern Europe, where to date only Slovenia (2007) and Slovakia (2009) have become members of the single currency.
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