(They are strongly opposed by Holland, the Scandinavian countries, and the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, which are familiar with communist repression.)

There are, of course, similarities and differences between the former communist countries and Iraq.

This applied to several countries in Central and South America, as well as to a number of communist and former communist countries in the developing world.

Importing laws and legal standards has dominated attempts by former communist countries to join the West.

Europe s former communist countries can make a special contribution to the process of transition across North Africa.

18. The question of the exchange rates used in the former communist countries had been raised repeatedly.

Foreign direct investment in 1991 2001 averaged 1,400 per capita in the eight former communist EU candidate countries.

And the trend extends beyond the former communist countries to include, for example, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

It attracted the best cyclists from communist countries, plus guest teams from non communist countries.

Today, our so called revolution is still viewed differently than those that took place in other former communist countries.

The former communist world made those choices 20 years ago.

In Eastern Europe, former communist countries applying for European Union membership must harmonize their laws with those of the EU.

Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were locked behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.

This is the third edition of this summit, during which 16 leaders from former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe and communist leaders from China meet to discuss economic collaboration.

Yet France and Germany, with Britain and Italy not far behind, say such criticism is outdated. (They are strongly opposed by Holland, the Scandinavian countries, and the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, which are familiar with communist repression.)

In the former communist and today apos s post communist States of Central and Eastern Europe, developments have been less dramatic.

Poland's president, who defeated Lech Walesa at the polls, is a former communist.

Today, ten former communist nations are fully integrated members of the European Union.

Comecon Council for Mutual EconomicAssistance, the former economic organisation establislied to encourage trade and friendly relations among nine communist countries including tlie Soviet Union

The EU's historic decision to admit eight former communist countries as members must not be create a new division between Eurasia's haves and have nots.

But, in the former communist bloc, the benefits brought by transparency have been undeniable.

In Latvia, like in other former communist countries the main area of education was engineering sciences (50 in the former Soviet Union) while the number of students in social sciences constituted less than 10 .

One can already notice this in some post communist countries.

A number of developing countries were becoming dynamic forces in the world economy even as former communist countries were in the process of a fragile socio economic transformation and the industrialized countries were deep in recession.

Economic transformation in the former communist world was a laborious process with painful side effects, and poverty and inequality had increased in Western countries as well.

My hosts were former communist leaders who were now more or less democratically elected presidents.

So, at last former Chinese Premier and Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang has died.

Foreign direct investment in 1991 2001 averaged 1,400 per capita in the eight former communist EU candidate countries. It was only 198 per capita in the CIS.

Germany primarily reacted to low wage competition from ex communist countries.

The first party chairman elected was Viktor Drachenko, a former Communist Party secretary from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

René Depestre (born 29 August 1926 Jacmel, Haiti) is a Haitian poet and former communist activist.

Those conditions must be met despite the recession in the developed world, the development problems of the developing countries, and the transition problems of the former communist States.

No limits were ever imposed on players movements, except by Communist countries.

Both men are former first secretaries of the Communist Youth League, one of Hu s major power bases.

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And the blue former developing countries are mixing up with the former industrialized western world.

And the blue former developing countries are mixing up with the former industrialized western world.

A former communist, Crvenkovski has been at the head of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia since April 1991.

In many respects, the former Soviet republics are less well placed than their former communist neighbours to the West to cope with the transition to a market economy.

The EU demonstrated that sense powerfully by its assistance to Europe s post Communist countries.

The IMF has no special expertise in the transition societies of the former communist world, or in African economic development.

His travels focus primarily on the former and present communist world, Latin America, Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

The Cambodian People apos s Party (CPP), comprising many members of the former communist party, was defeated at the elections.

Indeed, it has been 20 years since the former communist countries of Eastern Europe rejoined the world of market exchange, a step taken as early as 1946 by social democrats around the world.

But the magnitude of the economic costs should not be exaggerated after all, the aggregate GNP of the 10 applicant countries from the former communist bloc is smaller than the GNP of Holland!