LONDON: After years of rapid growth, the countries of Eastern Europe have been especially hard hit by the world financial crisis. Some required billions of dollars of international support. Even those countries that were better prepared were made (...)
LONDON: This could have been a year of joy for Europe. The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall will be commemorated in November, and it has been five years since the European Union's "Big Bang enlargement. The Cold War division of Europe (...)