The land that time forgot
Sorting out the impoverished rural parts of Eastern Europe is one of the stiffest challenges facing the European Union. All the odder that it seems not to care
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This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “The land that time forgot”
Briefing September 23rd 2000
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