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Is there a way to develop a country where there is virtually no trust in the state? If someone thinks so, please let us know.
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Decision by Gjorge Ivanov sparks protests and international criticism.
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The Poles, like the Hungarians before them, are trying to figure out how to improve their image abroad. It won’t be easy.
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In traditional talk, Vladimir Putin touches on the economy, Ukraine, Obama, and whether he’d let some world leaders sink.
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President Poroshenko denounces referendum as ‘attack on European unity and the spread of European values.’
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Anxious and panicky though Bulgarians may feel, the Brussels attacks brought home to the majority that the EU is the only option they have.
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The extradition agreement, signed between the two countries on 29 March, paves the way for Bajram Asllani to be sent to the United States to face trial, media reports say.
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Labour-intensive industries have declined in theEast Central European economy after thebeginning of the millennium. Given thisdeterioration, significant employers are vanishingfrom rural areas, leaving behind seriousemployment problems in regions which are lesscapable of resilient restructuring. This articleexamines this shrinkage from a geographicalaspect in the context of the Hungarian leather andfootwear industry. This study focuses on theinterpretation and explanation of the spatialdifferentiation that accompanies this shrinkingprocess. The aim of this paper is to reveal theinfluencing factors that stand in the backgroundof spatially uneven development. The analysis– embedded in the theoretical framework ofglobal production networks – is based on thecorporate database of the Hungarian CentralStatistical Office and invokes the experience ofinterviews carried out with representatives ofindustrial actors as well. In addition to anunderstanding of spatial processes, the intentionof the authors was to investigate the issues to beaddressed in certain locations and under whatconditions the long-standing industrial culturerelated to the sector can be preserved.
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Dozhd TV chief editor Mikhail Zygar’s account of Russia under Putin lets the facts speak for themselves.
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Poland’s de facto ruler calls cabinet an “experiment” and, defying critics, says country should move faster with planned changes.
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A statue of the controversial Russian nationalist may be dismantled for breaching federal law.
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Decision to hold snap elections does little to swell outrage over presidential pardon.
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After withdrawing most of its forces out of Syria, Russia has made the most out of a chance to earn billions of dollars from weapons contracts, media reports say.
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In a rare loss for the UN tribunal’s prosecutors, a major figure in Serbia’s wars with Croatia and Bosnia is acquitted of serious war crimes.
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EU treaty with Kyiv safe for now, as country also nears agreement on major prisoner swap with Russia.
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Ruling party of premier Aleksandar Vucic predicted to win easily despite growing disillusionment over the sluggish economy.
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Russia dismantled the oil company once run by Mikhail Khodorkovsky after the oligarch was jailed on fraud charges.
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1. Lithuania is a count r y that has deep roots of local self–government. This forms the historical heritage of Lithuanian local self-government. This heritage lies in the nation’s memory and continues to influence the local governmental awareness of Lithuanian people and public policy makers. This heritage has been having an impact on the development of the local self-governmental system in Lithuania since 1990. 2. The period from 1990 to this day is an interesting, meaningful and significant period for the evolution of local self-government in Lithuania. During this period, after 50 years of being only a supplement to the central state government and an obedient executor of the state policy shaped by it, the local governmental system, varied with sham local democracy elements, has been transformed into a modern, Western–type democratic local self–governmental system. 3. The events that have taken place during this period and the nature of these events provide reasonable grounds to divide the period from 1990 to the present day into three stages with regards to the evolution of local self–government : a) 1990–1995, b) 1995–2000 and c) since 2000. 4. The first stage (1990–1995) was difficult, complex and contradictory. During the first stage the evolution process of the local self-governmental system took place in two directions: 1) abrogating the old (Soviet, socialist) local governmental system and creating a new (democratic, Western type) local self-governmental system in compliance with the provisions of the Law on the Fundamentals on Local Government adopted on the 12th of February 1990 and 2) learning from the past mistakes; analysing the experience accumulated by other countries; searching and selecting a local self–government organization model which would be most suitable for Lithuania as well as of the count r y (a group of countries) the best practice of which could be used in a creative manner. 5. During the first stage (1990–1995) for some reasons, the development of a new (democratic, Western type) local self-governmental system in Lithuania was not consistent and as successful as it sought to. Lithuania was “gradually” returning to the former times of the centralized management. Fortunately, the return to the former times was stopped by the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania which was adopted by the people’s referendum of 25 October 1992 and entered into force on 6 November 1992.
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A majority believe it’s time for the symbol of Communism to rest in peace.
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Romanian politicians not happy about Marie Le Pen’s support for a newly formed right-wing and Eurosceptic party.
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