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January 7, 2011
Ukraine wants a free trade deal both with the EU and Russia, as the country’s foreign minister Konstantyn Gryshchenko recently told us. A kind of deja-vu? The new leadership of Ukraine appears to pursue the same strategy as Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito. Yugoslavia benefited a lot both from the USSR and from the West, […]
January 4, 2011
Sorry for being so blunt, but reality looks worse than the apprehensions some of us had. The Hungarian EU presidency also has a remarkably bad press. Reportedly, France and other countries are discretely giving advice to Hungary to freeze the media law issue for the period of its presidency. Sweeping the media […]
January 13, 2010
Aspiring commissioner Rumiana Jeleva was so sure of her performance that she ordered the Bulgarian national radio to transmit the three-hour debate live. As a Bulgarian national, I am as embarrassed as any of my compatriots. Jeleva made a sorry show of herself and failed to dispel ‘rumours’ about her family business. But more importantly,… » read more
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Bulgaria, eastern europe, English, Enlargement and Neighbours |
Aspiring commissioner Rumiana Jeleva was so sure of her performance that she ordered the Bulgarian national radio to transmit the three-hour debate live. As a Bulgarian national, I am as embarrassed as any of my compatriots. Jeleva made a sorry show of herself and failed to dispel ‘rumours’ about her family business. But more importantly,… » read more
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Bulgaria, eastern europe, English, Enlargement and Neighbours |
December 3, 2009
I met Jacques Delors again. I had already had the honour of being in his company when we made a 90-minute TV film about him, Toma Tomov* and me, in 2001. We called the film “Citizen Delors”, partly inspired from a poster of “Citizen Kane” which Delors had kept in his Berlaymont office, in previous… » read more
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Bulgarian, eastern europe, English, enlargement, Enlargement and Neighbours |
November 6, 2009
That’s the question to ask these days to people you met in the meantime. Well, if you or them are at least 30 years of age. There are moments, like 9/11, when everyone remembers what they have been doing, feeling and experiencing. By the way, the wall also fell on 9/11, but written the European… » read more
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29475, Czech, eastern europe, English, enlargement, Enlargement and Neighbours, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak |
November 2, 2009
Edward Lucas, a prominent analyst, says that Russia is pushing the USA out of Europe, trying to set up a condominium in the old continent between itself and countries such as France, Germany, Italy, to the detriment of Eastern Europe. Recently another knowledgeable specialist, Ariel Cohen, said that there is “little appetite” these days in… » read more
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eastern europe, English, enlargement, Enlargement and Neighbours |
