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The Union must see to it that this border is not a new wall dividing Europe, and that the zone of stability and prosperity it has created for its members spreads to the EU's eastern neighbors as well.
Similarly, notwithstanding the pro-Russian leanings of some among Trump’s team, the US-Russian relationship also lacks strategic trust, owing to Russia’s military intervention in Syria, its invasion of eastern Ukraine, and its alleged interference in the US election.
The response in Turkey – where as many as 50 possible cases have appeared in the eastern part of the country – is instructive.
Eastern European countries are now rethinking the actual benefits – and costs – of integration.
The EU can recover its soft power in its eastern neighborhood only if it recovers its hard power.
Today, Bolivia is being led by its government toward antagonism between Indians and non-Indians, the eastern and western regions, and city and country, exacerbated by insults and actions that are acquiring an increasingly racist and ethnocentric edge.
Of course, Obama is not responsible for Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea, or for Putin’s massing of Russian troops on Ukraine’s eastern border in an effort to intimidate the government in Kyiv.
That is why, following Russia’s illegal seizure and annexation of Crimea, Putin is now trying to mold Ukraine’s eastern provinces into vassal regions, if not foment irredentism, in order to realize his dream of reconstituting the Russian empire.
Germany is clearly acting to ease EU pressure on Poland, Hungary, and other Eastern European countries that are flouting the rule of law and undermining European solidarity with respect to migrants and refugees.
In Eastern European countries, one can pay by credit card at any street market, whereas in Germany, that is often impossible even in the best restaurants.
Because Germany still restricts the immigration of dependent workers from eastern EU countries, most of its immigrants come as self-employed or economically inactive people.
In Munich, the number of self-employed tilers increased in 2004 and 2005, the first two years after the first eastern enlargement wave, from 119 to 970.
But despite restrictions, by 2005 Germany had absorbed 37% of all migrants from Eastern Europe that came before and after eastern EU enlargement, whereas Italy had absorbed 22%, Greece 11%, Switzerland 8%, and the UK only 3%.
Before the EU’s eastern enlargement, many studies predicted the likely migration waves.
Ominously, the Chinese bottled-water industry is sourcing its glacier water mainly from the eastern Himalayas, where accelerated melting of snow and ice fields is already raising concerns in the international scientific community.
Even the Chinese Academy of Sciences has documented a sharp decrease in the area and mass of eastern Himalayan glaciers.
As the economies of the Czech Republic and other central and eastern European countries were rebuilt and began to grow again, emissions have naturally started to increase.
For example, Paraguay, which until 2004 had one of the world’s highest rates of deforestation, has reduced rates in its eastern region by 85%.
The sanctions were linked to the implementation of the 2014 Minsk Protocol, which brought about today’s patchy ceasefire with Russian-backed insurgents in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, and are supposed to expire at the end of next month.
The parasites that carry the infection – Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in central and western Africa and T. b. rhodesiense in eastern Africa – are transmitted through the bite of an infected tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitan).
Systematic sexual violence became visible in Burma when the Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN) and the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) published Licence to Rape , which documents 625 cases of rape committed by the military in eastern Burma between 1996 and 2001.
There are indications of significant gas hydrate deposits near India's eastern coast, between Madras and Calcutta.
Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and given Putin’s continued support for secessionists in eastern Ukraine, relations between Russia and the West are as bad as they have been since the Soviet Union disintegrated almost a quarter-century ago.
One year after the “little green men” – Russian soldiers without military insignias – began to appear, first in Crimea and then in the Donbas region, the situation in eastern Ukraine remains both stalemated and volatile.
At the end of this month, many of these young people will join us in Budapest, along with Prime Ministers and other senior officials from Central and Eastern European countries and EU member states.
The alleged political vacuum between Germany's eastern border and Russia's western border would thus be filled by a real military vacuum.
The new eastern realm by contrast, would be forced to forgo this bedrock of Atlantic security.
Although America's Congress has so far supported the continued stationing of U.S. forces in Germany, it would not take long for most Americans to conclude that what is good enough for the impoverished and exposed new eastern wing of NATO is good enough for rich Western Europe.
Successive governments across central and eastern Europe are responsible for a systemic failure to provide adequate support to families with disabled children, often resulting in abandonment and institutionalization.Without a stimulating family or family-like setting, such children cannot develop their full potential.
The government is fighting at least two wars simultaneously – taking on a deeply entrenched oligarchy, while trying to fend off its hostile eastern neighbor.
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