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Showing posts with label market economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label market economy. Show all posts

5/26/2013

'Yugonostalgia' as Croatia prepares to join EU

Forget the European Union, many in this Croatian village are saying. The group of nations being celebrated this weekend is one that died more than 20 years ago when Yugoslavia - now fervently remembered as a haven of peace, prosperity and equality - fell apart in a cascade of ethnic wars.

11/23/2011

Kissinger’s Favorite Communist Paves Monti’s Way

Italy’s new government, headed by former European Union Commissioner Mario Monti, has an unlikely supporter in President Giorgio Napolitano, an ex-communist who once praised the Soviet Union for crushing the 1956 reformist movement in Hungary.