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| | Eastern Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | As the ideological division of the Cold War has now disappeared, the cultural division of Europe between Western Christianity, on the one hand, and Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Islam, on the other, has reemerged. | | | More recently, the term "Eastern Europe" has been used to refer to all European countries that were previously ruled by Communist regimes - the so-called "Eastern Bloc". | | | This dualism failed to account fully for some exceptions, as Yugoslavia and Albania were Communist states outside Moscow's control. |
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| | Eurozine - Articles |
| | However, it was in Europe itself where Christianity started to decline and for some strange reasons began to grow in Latin America. | | | However, we should remember that historically, Europe had different definitions: Geographers had their own ways of delineating Europe - they thought in terms of mountain chains and seas. | | | The reasons are to be found in cynical political and economical reasoning more than anything else, argues Taras Wozniak and calls for a show of unity of Eastern European countries and their common interests. |
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http://www.eurozine.com/article/2004-06-25-wozniak-en.html
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| | EASTERN-CENTRAL EUROPE: The Multicultural Arena |
| | In the unsettled year of 1848, when unrest swept across Europe, the people of Prague too rose up in revolt, but their defeat led to the Austrian government's implementing an even more repressive regime. | | | Yet it did, and in face of the worst poverty of any of these nations, is making a valiant attempt to build an open society, or so I believe when I am there and see the EXTREME difference between life in the old days and now. | | | Outstanding daily press releases, Radio Free Europe interviews of Eastern European leaders and their biographies and speeches, outstanding Special Reports and Special Analyses, quotes of the week. |
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http://www.omnibusol.com/easteurope.html
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| | EPAA Vol. 6 No. 9 Slowinski: SOCRATES Invades Central Europe |
| | This common declaration acted as the catalyst for developing cooperation between the EU and communist nations of Eastern and Central Europe. | | | I have attempted to raise some critical issues which have emerged in Eastern and Central Europe during post-communist transition. | | | (16) The Central and Eastern Eurobarometer found that 36% of Czech citizens can speak Russian, 33% can speak German and 16% can speak English. |
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http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v6n9.html
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| | Amazon.com: Central Europe : Enemies & Neighbors & Friends : Books: Lonnie Johnson |
| | Approaching Central European history, without the clouded lens of modern democratic theory, which eschews feudalism as primitive, has clouded proper understanding of the developments so integral to Central Europe and its history. | | | It opens with the initial conversion of the "pagan" peoples of the region to Christianity before 1000 A.D. and ends with the revolutions of 1989 and the problems of post-Communist states today. | | | Learn about Russia: A guide by Christian Moulton, RussandE Europe Studies MA candidate, Univ. of... |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195100727?v=glance
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| | REENIC: Eastern and Central Europe and FSU |
| | Eastern Europe Since 1945 (a collection of documents; part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook) | | | World History Archives: History of Eastern Europe in General (a directory of full text documents) | | | USAID-Sponsored Environmental Grants in Belarus, Central Asia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine |
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http://reenic.utexas.edu/reenic/general.html
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| | LDESP: Central Europe |
| | Despite the fact that a number of countries in Central Europe have sought membership in NATO, they are still struggling to build stable democratic governing institutions after years of totalitarian or authoritarian rule. | | | This document provides a comprehensive view on operations of UNHCR in Central Europe. | | | The LDESP program provides insight on how to improve security and civil-military relations in Central Europe, supports the State partnership and peacekeeping missions, and promotes collaborative efforts between Europe and the United States to estabilish stability and democracy in the region. |
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http://www.ldesp.org/public/spd.cfm/spi/cent
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| | Central Europe |
| | The experiments in promoting democratic governance and market-based economics have not been universally successful. | | | In this course students will consider basic theoretical questions regarding national identity formation which will help them grasp the domestic and international dimensions of nation-building and political reconstruction in Central Europe. | | | Central European governments also have been forced to confront the implications of multiethnic societies. |
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http://academic.hws.edu/pge/cecp.html
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| | Central Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | East Germany, on the other hand, was from 1949–1990 a loyal member of the Warsaw Pact, but would now rather be seen as the inheritor of Protestant Prussian culture than of Catholic Central Europe. | | | Following World War II, large parts of Europe that were culturally and historically Western became part of the Eastern bloc, which effectively neutralized the concept of Central Europe. | | | Following the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold War, this distinction has again come into use, often to cover those countries that had been Warsaw Pact members but are now members of NATO and the European Union. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe
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| | WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--Eastern Europe |
| | Note RFE/RL Newsline, "a daily report of developments in Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia...based on news gathered by the correspondents, services and regional specialists of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty," with searchable archives. | | | -- Provides local press articles, original content, extensive travel and culture information, trade fair listings, political background, and basic information about each of the countries in Central Europe. | | | This site has printed news and live broadcasts. |
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http://www2.etown.edu/vl/easteuro.html
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| | CEU Department of Nationalism Studies |
| | Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe, edited by Will Kymlicka and Magda Opalski, under contract with Oxford University Press. | | | After decades of comparative neglect, there has been a recent explosion of interest in nationalism amongst liberal political theorists. | | | Will Kymlicka received his B.A. in philosophy and politics from Queen's University in 1984, and his D.Phil in philosophy from Oxford University in 1987. |
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http://www.ceu.hu/nation/kymlicka.html
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| | North Central Europe |
| | North Central Europe is important to world energy markets because it is a key transit point for Russian oil and natural gas pipelines. | | | It appears, however, that this disagreement was resolved in early June 2004, with the government of Azerbaijan committing to supply Ukraine with Caspian oil to transport on to Europe. | | | Another alternative to Russian supplied natural gas is the planned Nabucco pipeline, bringing natural gas from the Caspian Sea region to Europe. |
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/visegrad.html
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| | SIT Study Abroad - Central Europe - Germany: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Culture |
| | It is also a microcosm of the many contemporary social, political, and ethnic challenges facing Europe today, particularly as Germany grapples with its new position as an immigrant nation. | | | Eruptions of ethnic tensions, virulent xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and the backlash against immigrants have resurged in Europe recently—all of this ironically set against the backdrop of EU expansion, a common currency, and widespread cross-national cooperation. | | | As you attend language classes with immigrant students, study anti-Semitism at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, and converse with individuals struggling with the consequences of war in Croatia and Serbia, you gain insight into the destabilizing effects of ethnic conflict. |
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http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/europe/central_europe.html
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| | NPR : Excerpt: 'Europe Central' |
| | Europe's never burned a witch or laid hands on a Jew! | | | And Europe Central's ministers, who will also be shot, appear on balconies supported by nude marble girls, where they utter dreamy speeches, all the while listening for the ring of the telephone. | | | Europe feels all, bears all, raising her sky-ringed church-fingers up to heaven so that she can be married. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4677431
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| | Neopaganism in Central-Eastern Europe |
| | These attempts are in no way an escape from reality or sectarian activity. | | | The members claim to experience very intense religious feelings during their rituals, when they dance in masks with drums beating in forests near Poznañ. | | | One should take into account that the Baltic countries have been christianized relatively late in comparison with other European countries. |
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http://vinland.org/heathen/pagancee
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| | Central Europe |
| | The ensuing airdrops, which began on 28 April, marked the beginning of what was to become a colossal American-led effort to put war-torn Europe back together again. | | | The appropriate documents were signed on the same day and became effective on 8 May. Despite scattered resistance from a few isolated units, the war in Europe was over. | | | Having gambled his future ability to defend Germany on the Ardennes offensive and lost, Hitler had no real strength left to stop the powerful Allied armies. |
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http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/centeur/centeur.htm
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| | Siegfried Beer, Center for Austrian Studies |
| | Trevor Barnes, "The Secret Cold War: The CIA and American Foreign Policy in Europe, 1946-1956," parts 1 and 2, The Historical Journal 24 (1981): 399-415; 25 (1982): 649-70; John L. Gaddis, "Intelligence, Espionage and Cold War Origins," Diplomatic History 13 (1989): 191-212; and most recently, Wolfgang Krieger and Jürgen Weber, eds., Spionage für den Frieden? | | | The central motif behind the creation of the Strategic Services Unit was to "maintain a nuclear intelligence organization to serve the interests of the United States until some more permanent organization is established." | | | From SSU/CIG to CIA: Controlling Austria and Surveillance in Central Europe, 1945-1947. |
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http://www.cas.umn.edu/wp971.htm
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| | Transport - Transport in Europe and Central Asia |
| | The site already offers more than 100 active pages with documents related to transport, primarily in Europe and Central Asia. | | | Infrastructure and Energy in Eastern Europe and Central Asia | | | This Manual is the result of a strategic alliance between the Dutch program Partners for Roads and the World Bank to test the applicability of sustainable safety principles and concepts in road design in Central and Eastern Europe. |
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http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/ECA/Transport.nsf
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| | Central Europe Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
| | The German term "Mitteleuropa" is sometimes used for states that came to existence after the Habsburg Monarchy dissolved. | | | Sometimes countries that consider themselves part of Central Europe consider states east from them as Eastern Europe. | | | Another definition of Central Europe includes those parts of Europe that are Western from culture and history, but that were conquered by Soviet Union during World War II. |
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http://www.wikiwhat.com/encyclopedia/c/ce/central_europe.html
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| | Europe - Wikitravel |
| | Europe, prior to the conclusion of the Second World War, was a region ravaged by large-scale wars. | | | National leaders realized after World War II that closer socio-economic and political integration was needed to ensure that such tragedies never happened again. | | | The most notable omissions compared to Inter Rail are Republic of Macedonia, Morocco, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. |
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http://wikitravel.org/en/Europe
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| | GEO-2000: Europe and Central Asia |
| | More than half of the large cities in Europe are overexploiting their groundwater resources, and significant groundwater pollution by nitrates, pesticides, heavy metals and hydrocarbons has been reported from many countries. | | | Regional action plans have been effective in catalysing national and local action. | | | Pollution of land by excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides and by contaminants such as heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and radionuclides is widespread. |
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http://www.grida.no/geo2000/ov-e/0006.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Europe Central: Books: William T. Vollmann |
| | Operation Barbarossa--the German advance into Russia in 1941, and the subsequent German defeat at Stalingrad and Kursk--is central here, with the prewar and postwar scenes radiating out from it, as though the war were primary, not the nations engaged in it. | | | The strongest chapter is a retelling of Kurt Gerstein's life; Gerstein was the SS officer who tried to warn the world about the concentration camps while working as the SS supply agent for the gas chambers. | | | In this respect, "Europe Central" succeeds in many of the same ways that the recent film "Downfall" succeeds: i.e., by humanizing the protoganists of some of the world's most catastrophic events and forcing the reader / viewer to ask the question, "In similar circumstances would I have felt or acted any differently?" |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0143036599?v=glance
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| | The EU’s relations with Eastern Europe & Central Asia: Overview |
| | The EU remains firmly committed to working with the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia to support their political and economic transformation. | | | The main assistance instrument with the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia is the Tacis programme, which includes both national programmes and regional programmes in areas such as nuclear safety, cross-border cooperation and regional cooperation. | | | The Partnership and Cooperation Agreements constitute the framework for the relations between the EU and the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. |
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| | Central & Eastern Europe Region of the IMB |
| | Central and Eastern Europe missionaries contribute stories of courage, hope, and awe in a new devotional book. | | | Central and Eastern Europe Region of the IMB | | | For the Khakass people of Siberia, Russia, seeing their first American paled in comparison to hearing the Gospel of John for the first time in their own language. |
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| | Country Profiles: Central & Eastern Europe |
| | The Republic of Malta is a small and densely populated island nation in southern Europe. | | | The Federal Republic of Germany is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in central Europe. | | | The Republic of Poland, a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia to the north. |
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http://www.isop.ucla.edu/euro/countries/eu/index.asp
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| | Central & Eastern Europe |
| | The Human Rights and Governance Grants Program provides support to nongovernmental organizations operating in the fields of human rights and governance in Europe and Central Asia. | | | The pivotal role of television in supporting democracy in Europe is under threat, according to this report published by OSI's EUMAP and Media Program. | | | The Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative promotes effective democratic government in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia. |
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| | GEO-2000: Chapter Two: The State of the Environment - Europe and Central Asia - Freshwater |
| | The situation is worst in the Central Asian regions near the Aral Sea (UNDP 1996). | | | Water quality in Europe's natural and man-made lakes appears to be improving but water quality in many lakes is still poor and well below that in natural lakes in a good ecological state. | | | Water resources in Europe and Central Asia have been profoundly influenced over the past century by human activities, including the construction of dams and canals, large irrigation and drainage systems, changes of land cover in most watersheds, high inputs of chemicals from industry and agriculture into surface and groundwater, and depletion of aquifers. |
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| | Trip Report - Central Europe |
| | This was my first visit to mainland Europe, however I had been to the UK twice, and Israel once, so I was familiar with the more common species. | | | Both were adequate, though neither would have been my first choice if this had been a more intense birding trip. | | | The trip was some business and some pleasure, with the pleasure part being split among many interests, of which birding was only one of them. |
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| | Central Europe |
| | The Austrian court has been a central locus of European civilization for 500 years. | | | Western civilization owes an enormous debt to Janos Hunyadi; when Sultan Mohammed II sought to capitalize on his conquest of Constantinople by a campaign through the Balkans and into central Europe, Hunyadi stopped him cold at the seige of Belgrade (1456), with a mixed force of professional troops and untrained levies. | | | The Magyars were a Steppe Nomad people, vaguely related to the Finns, who broke into Central Europe in the 9th century. |
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| | Europe and Central Asia |
| | Governments in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union should do more to develop their countries' human capital and gain a competitive edge in today's knowledge-driven economy. | | | From Disintegration to Reintegration: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in International Trade | | | Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union |
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| | FEEFHS MAP ROOM - Background and MAP INDEX |
| | Poland did not exist as a nation for about 126 years prior to the end of World War I. However the Austrian, German and Russian partitions of Poland are shown as parts of their respective Empires on the maps in this Map Rooom. | | | A map of Switzerland is not planned since a detailed road map is available for Switzerland from any AAA (American Auto Club) office in America. | | | Please see the Map Background file for details on the sources of these maps, scales, how they were scanned, etc. |
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| | Tamizdat: New Music from Central & Eastern Europe |
| | For those of you living in Central Europe you know all too well that it has been a brutally merciless winter. | | | Regardless of where you are however, we encourage you to get out and see some live music. | | | This spring there is a lot of great local, national and international musicians playing all over Central Europe. |
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| | Central & Eastern Europe Tours - Abercrombie & Kent |
| | Budapest has been restored to the “Paris of Central Europe.” Warsaw has restored much of its former glory after the destruction of World War II, and Kraków, one of the jewels of Europe, is a beautifully preserved reminder of the wealth of this region in medieval times. | | | Visit the old city of Dubrovnik to learn why George Bernard Shaw called it “heaven on earth.” Then travel to Zagreb, the capital. | | | Neighboring Slovenia lies at the heart of Europe where the Alps and Mediterranean meet. |
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http://www.abercrombiekent.com/index.cfm?navid=3.6.5
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| | ECB: European Central Bank home page |
| | CET the ECB President and Vice-President explain the Governing Council's monetary policy decisions and answer journalists' questions. | | | 25/03/2006 - ECB Law: Agreement of 16 March 2006 between the ECB and the national central banks of the Member States outside the euro area laying down the operating procedures for an exchange rate mechanism in stage three of Economic and Monetary Union | | | 31/03/2006 - Speech: Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell: The European Central Bank, Italy and the integration of Eastern Europe, en |
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| | After nearly 14 years of service, CEEBIC closed down its operations in 8 cities in Central and Southeastern Europe and its domestic operations in Washington, DC on September 30, 2005. | | | CEEBIC would like to thank all those who supported it through the years and wish you luck in your future endeavors. | | | CEEBIC will no longer provide business counseling and information resources on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as of October 1, 2005. |
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| | TCS Daily : Europe |
| | A new report looks at Europe's ailing social model. | | | Russia has an invasion of Georgia on its mind. | | | Report from Belarus: opposition activists are being rounded up by the authorities. |
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/Europe.aspx
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| | ICEM - Central Europe |
| | The FNV labour federation in The Netherlands is engaged today, 9 March, in an emergency meeting with the nation’s tripartite Social Economic Council to address the misuse by Dutch employers of workers from Central and Eastern Europe. | | | Dutch Protest Today Points at Exploitation of Central and Eastern European Workers | | | ICEM affiliate FNV Bondgenoten is conducting a protest outside the Council’s building as the meeting is in progress. |
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| | Deloitte Technology Fast 50 |
| | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein (association), and, as such, neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms has any liability for each other's acts or omissions. | | | Welcome to the official web site of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Program in Central Europe. | | | This year's ranking will be announced on 30 November 2005 at an exclusive, invitation-only, executive networking event in London. |
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2006 RFE/RL, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | | | Listen to any RFE/RL broadcast, live or on-demand | | | Your source for news and information from Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Southwestern Asia. |
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| | DBLP Bibliography |
| | This mirror is a service of Sun SITE Central Europe - Original site |
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| | CENTRAL EUROPE BPO |
| | Our systems are set-up to track, record and report on each customer contact using state-of-the-art Contact Center technology based on Internet Protocol (IP). | | | It is going to be one of the newest contact center in this part of Europe... | | | Based in Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland, Central Europe BPO's focus is to provide exceptional value for money with no less quality. |
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| | Map of Central and Eastern Europe |
| | Click on any of the countries to see an enlarged country map. | | | The following interactive map shows the beneficiary countries of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC). | | | These maps can be reproduced as long a the copyright statement is not removed and a link is provided to www.rec.org. |
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