1989 liberated central and eastern European countries from totalitarian rule, enabling them to transform their political and economic systems.

Many other European countries are adopting the second solution.

Almost every European country has abolished the death penalty.

Some countries in Europe are not part of the European Union.

European countries, meanwhile, criticize the current military strategy.

In isolation, European countries would have limited global significance.

Pay for the southern European countries or resign oneself to the end of the euro?

To their everlasting shame, European countries abstained.

But are European countries with lagging productivity willing to accept depopulation?

Recent empirical evidence suggests that the central and eastern European regions benefiting most from EU membership are those around the country s capital city or sharing a border with one of the 15 countries.

In the 9th Century East Slavs came to the lake.

And an unwillingness to trade away export led growth is having the same effect on the East s surplus countries (especially China).

If Europe is guilty of bigotry, why didn't they ask for political asylum or immigrant rights in an Islamic colony in Somalia? for this is where they would have learnt the true meaning of freedom.

Recent German statements have pushed key European countries decisively closer to that point.

The countries of emerging Europe must go through a similar bout of introspection, but the fact that they were saved from worst case scenarios seems to make it more difficult to launch this process.

By the summer of 1989, East Europeans were given more degrees of freedom.

In recent weeks, European countries and apparently the IMF have been rejecting the pleas of Nigeria's new democracy to grant it debt reduction. Instead, they say, Nigeria should increase its debt servicing this year, and should abandon its call for debt reduction.

In recent weeks, European countries and apparently the IMF have been rejecting the pleas of Nigeria's new democracy to grant it debt reduction.

Two themes that people consider crucial are a stronger European economy (more jobs and more growth) and greater security (reducing cross border crime).

Here European countries are well endowed, having overcome centuries of animosity and developing a large successful market.

For hundreds if not thousands of years, European countries made war repeatedly with each other.

Many European countries are looking to China as the key to stronger domestic growth.

European countries are heavily reliant on each other in addressing these issues.

Eastern countries (the postcommunist world in Europe and the richer countries of Asia) are consuming more and more drugs, because the older markets of Western Europe and North America are saturated.

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Many Eastern religions teach that there is a unity behind the diversity of phenomena.

Arab countries, already questionable allies in the war against fellow Muslims in Afghanistan, will be even less reliable in a war against fellow Arabs.

European countries are under severe cost pressures as well, undermining their cherished ideal of equitable access.

The system broke down when European countries, particularly France, decided to stop funding those deficits.

After the Second World War, many European countries enshrined extensive social guarantees in their constitutions.

The Europeans, let alone the Russians, may demure.

In 1942, like many other European countries, Ukraine was under Nazi occupation.

Other European countries (for example, Italy and Spain) fall somewhere between these poles.

Britain, Belgium, and Spain, among others in Europe, have devolved more power to local regions.

Indeed, while Saddam Hussein attacked the Kurds, European governments were selling him weapons.

Rich countries have long meddled, often with their own corruption and incompetence, in the internal affairs of the countries that they now lecture.

First, neither the US nor European countries have much standing as legitimate arbiters of good governance.

The EU s eastern member states, in particular, must not lose their interest in Ukraine's future, otherwise the Union as a whole may soon do the same.

The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism introduced meditation to other Asian countries, and in 653 the first meditation hall was opened in Singapore.

On 24 August 1942, the next major naval battle occurred at the Eastern Solomons.

To be sure, a few countries in Europe, mainly Germany and Austria, have welcomed strong inflows of Turkish immigration.

European nations recognized this a half century ago, and Asia s countries must make that same, self restricting choice now.

On a smaller scale, European countries like Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic have also suffered serious flooding.

No wonder Merkel wants other European countries to take in more refugees under a mandatory quota system.