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Central and Eastern Europe - Selected Topics
1. CEE FOCUS
The Black Sea
The Balkans
Czech Republic
Poland
European Economic Integration
Metropolitan University Prague
Martin Kolmhofer www.cee-portal.at
2011/2012
7. From 18 century Russia began to show interest for the black sea. Both Peter the
Great and Catherine the Great tried to get the Russian navy access to the warmer
waters in the South.
8. At the end of the 18th century Russia led two wars against the Ottoman Empire and
took control of the north shore of the Black Sea. They established the military port of
Sebastopol and the commercial port of Odessa.
9. However, the UK prevented Russia in Crimean War of 1853 - 1856 from conquering
the Turkish Straits.
In the nearly 50 years of the Cold War, the Black Sea belonged to the front line
between the two power blocs.
10. The U.S. is trying to push back Russian influence in the region.
European is also beginning to show interest in the region, since Romania and
Bulgaria joined the EU in January 2007.
11. Position of Russia:
Black Sea Fleet in Sebastopol - Ukraine leases the naval base until 2017 to Russia
12. Moscow, now supports the independence of Georgian provinces South Ossetia and
Abchazia
2014 Winter Olympics Sochi
13. CEE FOCUS
The Black Sea
The Balkans
Czech Republic
Poland
European Economic Integration
Metropolitan University Prague
Martin Kolmhofer
2011/2012 www.cee-portal.at
15. With the exception of Albania and Bulgaria, the countries of the region from 1945
to 1991 formed a federation, the former Yugoslavia, the country of southern Slavs.
24. CEE FOCUS
The Black Sea
The Balkans
Czech Republic
Poland
European Economic Integration
Metropolitan University Prague
Martin Kolmhofer
2011/2012 www.cee-portal.at
35. Russia does not believe that the U.S. wants to defend itself against Iran. Moscow is
convinced that the radar system is directed against Russia.
36. CEE FOCUS
The Black Sea
The Balkans
Czech Republic
Poland
European Economic Integration
Metropolitan University Prague
Martin Kolmhofer
2011/2012 www.cee-portal.at
39. The mining industry also includes iron, zinc, copper, sulfur, and natural gas -
mainly in the Carpathians.
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42. 97 percent of Poles are Catholic, therefore the country has often felt as a Catholic
outpost against the Orthodox Eastern Europe.
43. Concern 1: Before WWII one third of the territory belonged to Germany. Therefore,
there is concern in Poland that Germans expelled from Poland will try to buy back
the land of their ancestors after the EU enlargement.
44. Concern 2: In Warsaw, people are afraid of competition on the European market.
And Brussels is worried about the rising cost of the common agricultural policy.
45. Concern 3: The three eastern borders with the neighboring states of Russia,
Belarus and Ukraine are the new external border of the European Union.
46. Poland has hardly any natural boundaries and therefore was almost always
unprotected against military attacks.
47. Poland has twice disappeared from the maps of Europe:
For 123 years from 1795 to 1918
48. …and then again in the Second World War when it was swallowed up by the Soviet
and the German neighbors.