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

Do the post communist candidate countries share the OCA properties required for successful EMU membership? Their degree of economic openness, measured by the share of exports and imports in their GDP, is as high as that of current EMU members.

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

Do the post communist candidate countries share the OCA properties required for successful EMU membership?

For example, formerly communist countries earned emission credits at zero cost on the heavy industries that they had to shut down and reaped windfall profits by selling them.

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

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.

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

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.

The formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe that have adopted a flat tax including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine, among others sorely lack investment capital.

There, the country s communist masters ordered the security forces to fire on the people.

It was no accident that communist countries were (and are) usually run by geriatric leaders, and democracies by younger men and women.

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.

Some of the formerly colonized Asian countries have done likewise. The challenge is to spread such achievements to the rest of the world.

Meanwhile, as Turkey s attitude toward its neighbors has changed, its governing elite has watched the EU embrace ex communist countries with far shakier market economies and shorter democratic records.

The current season of the series takes viewers to the different countries that were once part of the Soviet Union.

Yes, exhusbands and exwives.

Although the EU's eastward enlargement has not yet happened, the debate is already shifting to ask what will follow when should the new, predominantly postcommunist, members adopt the euro? Assuming that they comply with the Maastricht Treaty's provisions concerning the EMU and are not unfairly held to more stringent criteria the core issue is whether new members would benefit more by waiting or whether they should seek early entry.

It is said that, unless developing and postcommunist countries catch up with the computer revolution , their economies will fall ever farther behind.

Naturally, the key role in this model is given to the supply of energy to the post Soviet countries.

Communist leaders urge Chinese tech firms to join the party

Old boyfriends huh?

Now China's communist rulers find themselves trapped in a bind.

FMLN ex combatants

All of the staff were ex police interesting and ex probation officers.

In the Gaza strip a separate Palestinian communist organization was established.

You know, the big communist revolutions, Russia and China and so forth.

Because of the Croatian War of Independence, there are numerous leftover minefields in Croatia, largely tracing former front lines.

The former socialist countries that earlier on had developed democracy movements are now experiencing secure democratic development.

The former kings are not forgotten.

An excon, like me.

You had the creation of new states in Eastern Europe, the former Yugoslav republics and the Balkans, and the 'stans of central Asia.

China's government regards the threat of capital losses on its dollar denominated securities as less important than the need to maintain near full employment in coastal manufacturing cities like Shanghai.

After all, the ruling communist oligarchs have grown accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle.

Indeed, like so many post communist countries over the past 20 years, Libya is now making the gradual and at times painful transition to a market economy.

And former countries I say former, because none of them really came through this summer there was a big difference between getting a head of state to have a photo opportunity, make a press release.

China's communist rulers are dithering about how to respond.

Former enemies had become close friends.

All the people who were here have left.

Tom has three ex wives.

The motorcycle transportation operators are predominantly former combatants.

Armed Forces of El Salvador ex combatants

In fact the former residents of the CKGR are only a very small proportion of the people of Basarwa identity who live in the country.

Unfortunately, the way of thinking that supported Communist dictatorships has not disappeared entirely.

Communist parties, more or less reformed as socialists, appeal to a surprising number of voters.