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ALBANIA [top]
Berisa denies plans to oust OSCE
Macedonian Information Agency - 05 Aug 2008 08:30:27 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Albania to request more observers for 2009 elections
Southeast European Times - 04 Aug 2008 15:09:07 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Albania's Topi calls for high judicial standards
Southeast European Times - 01 Aug 2008 14:24:51 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
New minister says Albania's healthcare system needs swift reforms
Southeast European Times - 31 Jul 2008 14:32:36 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
US ambassador to Albania says police must be independent from politics
Southeast European Times - 30 Jul 2008 14:39:49 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Albania's parliament adopts decrees on new High Court members
Southeast European Times - 29 Jul 2008 15:52:35 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

BELARUS [top]
Belarus Opposition Elected the Free
Kommersant - 05 Aug 2008 07:36:48 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Direct air service between Belarus, UAE to promote mutual penetration of capital
www.belta.by - 04 Aug 2008 18:23:02 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Belarusian Opposition Party Sacks Leader Ahead Of Vote
rferl.org - 04 Aug 2008 15:56:59 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Agricultural ministries of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to increase cooperation
www.belta.by - 04 Aug 2008 13:03:44 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Belarus Demands Gas Price Revision
kommersant.com - 01 Aug 2008 15:02:09 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
LUKoil, Rosneft eyeing stakes in Belarus oil companies
rbcnews.com - 01 Aug 2008 14:35:54 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Rosatom, Areva make bids to build nuclear reactor in Belarus
RIA Novosti - 01 Aug 2008 13:15:43 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Belarus to Sell Refinery, Petrochemical Plant to Russia
www.neftegaz.ru - 01 Aug 2008 11:29:59 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
U.S. lawyer goes on trial in Belarus for spying
Reuters - 30 Jul 2008 12:13:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA [top]
Bosnia fugitive is hero to some, butcher to others
International Herald Tribune - 05 Aug 2008 03:35:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Bureaucracy may delay exploration of potential oil fields in BiH
Southeast European Times - 04 Aug 2008 15:09:10 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 90%
BiH to seek EU candidate status by year's end
Southeast European Times - 04 Aug 2008 15:09:06 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 98%
BiH refuses to accept new Kosovo passport
Southeast European Times - 03 Aug 2008 14:10:05 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 95%
TITOV: RUSSIA STILL INSISTS ON TRANSFORMATION OF OHR
fena.ba - 31 Jul 2008 13:28:38 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 89%

BULGARIA [top]
Concessions made to Kremikovtzi at the expense of companies
www.steelguru.com - 05 Aug 2008 03:22:28 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 96%
Tender for Bulgaria's Fourth Mobile Phone Ends in Failure
novinite.com - 04 Aug 2008 19:26:01 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Property Wire: Bulgaria Black Sea Hotels Are in Trouble
novinite.com - 04 Aug 2008 16:13:53 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Bulgaria prime time: TV draws investors
International Herald Tribune - 31 Jul 2008 18:28:13 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Ex-Credit Suisse broker missing as securities probe nears: report
Reuters - 31 Jul 2008 07:29:10 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 91%
Bulgaria will not start receiving money from EU funds before February 2009
Bulgarian news network - 30 Jul 2008 12:49:43 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
EBRD intensifies support for Bulgarian SMEs
ebrd.com - 30 Jul 2008 10:14:16 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
High officials sign Bulgarian Container Terminal deal at Varna
portnews.ru - 30 Jul 2008 05:38:11 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

CROATIA [top]
Croatia's LNG to be completed by 2014 – PM
Budapest Business Journal - 05 Aug 2008 05:59:07 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Croatian Fund Puts 24.5% Stake of Dairy Producer KIM Up for Sale
flex-news-food.com - 04 Aug 2008 14:38:46 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Mongolia, Croatia to boost co-op
Xinhua - 04 Aug 2008 14:16:49 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 89%
Croatian Firm Podravka's H1 Sales, Net Profit up
flex-news-food.com - 04 Aug 2008 09:03:51 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Croatian president starts Asian tour
Xinhua - 04 Aug 2008 03:36:05 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 89%
Croatia's chances for 2010 EU entry fade
Southeast European Times - 29 Jul 2008 15:52:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

CZECH REPUBLIC [top]
[Comment] The thorny question of the EU treaty and the Czech Republic
EUobserver.com - 05 Aug 2008 09:58:02 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Czech police to check excessive price of palace of justice- press
Czech Happenings - 05 Aug 2008 06:59:04 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Czechs say Russian oil supply at promised levels
Budapest Business Journal - 04 Aug 2008 06:13:41 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 98%
Metalimex posts sales and profit drops in 2007
www.steelguru.com - 04 Aug 2008 03:06:58 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 97%
Is former PM Zeman making a political comeback?
Radio Prague - 01 Aug 2008 14:15:28 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Foreign gangs drug dealing, money laundering in Czech Republic
Czech Happenings - 31 Jul 2008 19:04:59 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Boom in Czechs purchasing American internet goods
Radio Prague - 31 Jul 2008 15:38:57 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia further cuts its oil deliveries to Czech Republic
International Herald Tribune - 30 Jul 2008 20:16:52 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

ESTONIA [top]
Estonia urges EU peacekeepers for Georgia
EUobserver.com - 05 Aug 2008 07:33:50 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Danske delivers Baltic triple whammy
www.businessneweurope.eu - 04 Aug 2008 06:55:31 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 92%
Estonian and Polish presidents meet for talks
Radio Polonia - 02 Aug 2008 10:49:21 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Tallink employees to strike
baltictimes.com - 01 Aug 2008 23:28:01 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 92%

HUNGARY [top]
Hungary foreign trade surplus of €27.5 mln in May
Budapest Business Journal - 05 Aug 2008 09:16:12 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Hungary: Government to discuss tax cuts
Budapest Business Journal - 05 Aug 2008 05:59:09 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Informal meeting of NATO Defence Ministers - Budapest, Hungary, 9-10 October 2008
NATO official site - 05 Aug 2008 02:15:52 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Malév to lay off 400 staff
Budapest Business Journal - 04 Aug 2008 14:25:50 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Hungary to dispatch Nabucco envoy in September
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr - 01 Aug 2008 10:08:14 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Hungary: Real estate market stands still
Budapest Business Journal - 31 Jul 2008 06:08:36 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
MAL Aluminum buys 10 year concession rights in Montenegro
www.steelguru.com - 30 Jul 2008 11:27:47 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 98%

LATVIA [top]
Latvia: Rigas Piena Kombinats Dairy Posts 43.9 Mln Euro in H1 Turnover
flex-news-food.com - 05 Aug 2008 07:58:09 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Rietumu Group acquires brokerage company in Ukraine
Budapest Business Journal - 04 Aug 2008 15:14:53 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Referendum in Latvia invalid as voters turnout insufficient
ITAR-TASS - 03 Aug 2008 07:18:51 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Dissolution vote to be held Aug. 2
baltictimes.com - 31 Jul 2008 21:39:22 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 90%

LITHUANIA [top]
Danske delivers Baltic triple whammy
www.businessneweurope.eu - 04 Aug 2008 06:55:31 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 92%
Generator at Lithuania's Ignalina power plant restarted
Interfax - 30 Jul 2008 15:40:34 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

MACEDONIA [top]
Parliament adopts Law on Usage of Languages for second time
Macedonian Information Agency - 05 Aug 2008 07:06:18 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Presidential pardon ends parliament crisis in Macedonia
Southeast European Times - 03 Aug 2008 14:10:07 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
FM: Macedonia ready to compromise with Greece over name dispute
Xinhua - 01 Aug 2008 19:51:32 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Macedonia's Crvenkovski warns against opposition boycott
Southeast European Times - 01 Aug 2008 14:24:44 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Minor earthquake hits Prespa area
Makfax - 31 Jul 2008 13:52:31 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

MOLDOVA [top]
Russia sends humanitarian aid to Ukraine and Moldova
rbcnews.com - 05 Aug 2008 07:38:02 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Moldovan president makes flight to monitor situation in regions affected by floods
www.moldpres.md - 04 Aug 2008 13:33:15 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Inter RAO Completes Moldova Buy
TheMoscowTimes.com - 30 Jul 2008 23:14:52 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Moldova conducts researches to create its own satellite
www.moldpres.md - 29 Jul 2008 20:44:56 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

MONTENEGRO [top]
Montenegro to apply for EU membership by end of year
Southeast European Times - 03 Aug 2008 14:10:04 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Montenegro charges 8 over murder of 23 Albanians
Reuters - 01 Aug 2008 13:09:52 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
MAL Aluminum buys 10 year concession rights in Montenegro
www.steelguru.com - 31 Jul 2008 02:45:05 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

POLAND [top]
SEB Asset Management signs contract for Torus office park in Gdańsk (PL)
European real estate news - 05 Aug 2008 07:50:56 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 90%
Poland to do away with conscription by end of 2008
Radio Polonia - 04 Aug 2008 10:11:30 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
PRESS: German gas firm Concord Power Nordal plans to build a gaspipeline to Poland
Interfax - 04 Aug 2008 09:46:27 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Tough Polish-US talks on missile defense shield
Radio Polonia - 01 Aug 2008 13:30:09 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Polish gas monopolist PGNiG and FX Energy Poland discover potential gasfield in western Poland
Interfax - 31 Jul 2008 12:41:21 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Poland's Walesa testifies in trial of old rival
Reuters - 30 Jul 2008 16:51:08 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
German RWE and Polish PGNIG decline to confirm talks on gas-fuelledpower plant joint project
Interfax - 29 Jul 2008 09:38:56 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

ROMANIA [top]
S&P upgrades rating of Romanian banking system
www.nineoclock.ro - 04 Aug 2008 22:58:53 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Ryanair takes a step backwards in Romania
Ziarul Financiar - 04 Aug 2008 22:17:23 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
July: Bad month for equity funds on the BSE
Ziarul Financiar - 04 Aug 2008 22:17:21 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 99%
Iranian Ambassador is ready to have talks with Bucharest regarding Nabucco
www.nineoclock.ro - 04 Aug 2008 00:12:11 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Romania: Mr Too Clean?
The Economist - 01 Aug 2008 02:38:39 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Romania to collaborate with Italy over Gypsies
Xinhua - 31 Jul 2008 19:15:57 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Price of flats in Bucharest continues to fall
Ziarul Financiar - 30 Jul 2008 22:13:32 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Romania: Road to Destruction
www.tol.cz - 30 Jul 2008 00:58:13 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

SERBIA [top]
Jeremić: Serbia to press on with ICJ plan
B92 - 05 Aug 2008 10:31:48 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Interview with British Ambassador to Serbia
Serbianna - 04 Aug 2008 14:02:20 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Serbia urges refugees to return to Bosnia, Croatia
Serbianna - 04 Aug 2008 14:02:18 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Serbia to sign NATO security agreement
Serbianna - 04 Aug 2008 14:02:14 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Report backs Karadzic's US protection deal
Serbianna - 02 Aug 2008 17:31:38 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 99%
Karadzic describes US death plot
FT.com - 01 Aug 2008 18:31:46 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 45%
Aeroflot Won't Fly the Serbian Skies
Kommersant - 01 Aug 2008 10:30:56 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Trade deficit reaches USD 6.3bn
B92 - 01 Aug 2008 00:34:22 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
80 people injured in Serbia over Karadzic
Serbianna - 31 Jul 2008 23:14:41 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
An online hoax becomes a source about Karadzic
International Herald Tribune - 31 Jul 2008 13:35:11 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 95%
SERBIA: No Changes to Russian Energy Deal
www.seeurope.net - 31 Jul 2008 12:39:00 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

SLOVAKIA [top]
Volkswagen to move Slovakia line to Bosnia
Budapest Business Journal - 04 Aug 2008 14:25:49 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Slovakia to refuse Kosovo passports
B92 - 01 Aug 2008 13:55:16 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

SLOVENIA [top]
Plot Thickens in Patria Deal
The Slovenia Times - 04 Aug 2008 22:45:55 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Peterle Staying Put
The Slovenia Times - 03 Aug 2008 22:25:06 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Christian Democratic Party Revived
The Slovenia Times - 29 Jul 2008 08:33:38 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

TURKEY [top]
Syria's Assad to meet Erdogan on Turkish coast
Reuters - 05 Aug 2008 09:26:10 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkey ups iron and steel production
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr - 05 Aug 2008 08:40:25 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
TAV 'bidding for Pulkovo Airport'
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr - 04 Aug 2008 09:13:04 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 99%
Turkey arrests suspects in bombings
International Herald Tribune - 03 Aug 2008 13:15:23 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkey: A narrow scrape for democracy
The Economist - 01 Aug 2008 02:38:52 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkey's AKP victory pushes share prices up
FT.com - 31 Jul 2008 18:42:30 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkcell Buys 80 Percent Share Of Belarus's Best For 500 Mln Usd
www.turkishpress.com - 31 Jul 2008 07:46:03 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
EBRD expected to approve Turkey's membership in October
www.todayszaman.com - 30 Jul 2008 23:11:07 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
What Are the Chinese Doing in Turkey?
ABC News - 30 Jul 2008 16:27:52 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Ergenekon suspects to stand trial in Turkey
Southeast European Times - 29 Jul 2008 15:52:30 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

UKRAINE [top]
Ukraine ranks 118 by level of corruption among states worldwide
forUm - 05 Aug 2008 10:24:16 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Ukraine to block Odessa-Brody shipments
www.steelguru.com - 05 Aug 2008 09:09:55 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Tymoshenko and Yushchenko will meet in Bukovyna
forUm - 04 Aug 2008 10:36:51 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Ukraine Forced to Return Gas of Rosukrenergo
Kommersant - 04 Aug 2008 09:42:13 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Ukraine allocates billions to flood relief
Kyiv Post - 01 Aug 2008 15:17:43 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Zaporizhstal to pay 100% of net income as dividend
www.steelguru.com - 01 Aug 2008 03:21:52 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
CPU leader: Emergency Control Minister must be imprisoned
forUm - 31 Jul 2008 12:41:47 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Tymoshenko says Yushchenko had no right to submit draft budget amendments
finchannel.com - 31 Jul 2008 10:34:54 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Ukraine's government ready to continue dialog with Vanco Prickerchenska
forUm - 30 Jul 2008 12:54:08 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Yushchenko Found Poisoner
Kommersant - 30 Jul 2008 07:50:24 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 83%
Romania, Ukraine to settle territorial dispute at International Court of Justice
Southeast European Times - 29 Jul 2008 15:52:32 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
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