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What New Europe?(economics defines the European Union after new membership)

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It's surprising that a man so widely despised there could have done so much to frame the way the world thinks about Europe. In Germany last week, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld repeated his now famous juxtaposition of the "Old Europe," which balked at war in Iraq, versus the "New Europe," which backed the good fight against Saddam, terror and all that. Since Rumsfeld first drew this distinction back in January, the terms Old and New have been widely adopted to distinguish the founding Western states of the European Union, particularly Germany and France, from the 10 members now entering from the East, led by Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. More than a ...

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