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CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague offers systemic reform in 2011
Reforms of the tax, welfare, education, health and pension systems will be set out...
Czech RepublicAZERBAIJAN: Confident Baku frees donkey satirists
The second of the two youth activists sentenced last November for hooliganism after posting a...
AzerbaijanCYPRUS: UN could give up on faltering peace process
The UN has set the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaderships until end-January to devise a plan to...
CyprusAZERBAIJAN/IRAN: Self-interest drives trade deal
A bilateral memorandum on energy and transport cooperation was signed in Baku yesterday after a...
AzerbaijanBULGARIA: Courts seem less at fault than police
Two senior former officials were acquitted yesterday of misconduct in office in...
BulgariaBULGARIA: Political will lacks for real pension reform
The draft 2011 budget was passed in its first reading on November 11. Opposition Socialist...
BulgariaGREECE/EU: EU signals no slackening in austerity
Athens is not expecting the next EU loan tranche until January and has no short-term...
GreeceCYPRUS: Over-dependence on banking sector has risks
Standard & Poor's (S&P) downgraded the long-term sovereign rating by one notch to A with a...
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