Thousands of Opel workers from around Germany took part in a mass rally on Thursday demanding parent General Motors scrap plans for plant closures in Europe.
In Sweden unions and the Social Democrat party planned a protest “For Jobs” later on Thursday at a Saab plant in Trollhattan.
The global financial and economic crisis has sparked many [...]
Since the turning point of 1989, Poland has undergone great political, social and economic changes. The introduction of democratic structures, the shift from a command economy to the free market and wide-ranging systemic reforms are all achievements of which Poles can be proud.
The start of the economic reform process was extremely tough, though few in [...]
Gas dependency
Percentage of gas imported from Russia
Bar chart showing EU countries’ dependency on gas imports from Russia. EU-sponsored talks collapsed Thursday between Russia and Ukraine on resolving a gas dispute that has cut supplies to Europe in the midst of a bitterly cold winter, with Moscow blamed for the failure.
(LNS/Graphic)
Source: Eurostat
Russia is once again flexing its muscles as an international power, after the decade of economic pain and political instability that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
A new political order is in place and the economy has recovered and grown since the collapse of 1998, fuelled by income from Russia’s vast [...]
U.S. Air Forces in Europe, with headquarters at , Germany, is a major command of the . It is also the air component of the , a Department of Defense unified command.
Mission
As the air component for , USAFE directs air operations in a theater spanning three continents, [...]
The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea is sandwiched between Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north and east.
Koenigsberg, as the city of Kaliningrad was once known, was founded by Teutonic knights in the 13th century. It became one of the cities of the Hanseatic League and was once the capital [...]
The present borders of Belarus were established during the turmoil of World War II.
The former Soviet republic was occupied by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944, when it lost 2.2 million people, including most of its large Jewish population.
There are about 400,000 ethnic Poles living in the west of the country.
OVERVIEW
It has been ruled [...]
A small and heavily forested country, Estonia is the most northerly of the three former Soviet Baltic republics.
Not much more than a decade after it regained its independence following the collapse of the USSR, the republic was welcomed as an EU member in May 2004. The move came just weeks after it joined NATO.
These historic [...]
Situated in north-eastern Europe with a coastline along the Baltic Sea, Latvia is geographically the middle of the three former Soviet Baltic republics.
It has language links with Lithuania to the south and historical and ecumenical ties with Estonia to the north.
Not much more than a decade after it declared independence following the collapse of the [...]
Here are some details about Lithuania, which is holding elections on Sunday.
Economic worries may influence the election result. No party is expected to win a majority in the vote, leading to a new coalition government.
ECONOMY: President said last month he was concerned about a widening of the budget deficit as the economy was [...]
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Die Meinung eines Verfassers, welche in einzelnen Artikeln zum Ausdruck gebracht wird, muss nicht mit der Meinung der Redaktion der Baltischen Rundschau übereinstimmen.
