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Article: Ex-Iron Curtain countries offer new opportunities.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2000
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Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain, the countries of Eastern Europe which were trading partners of Britain in the 1920s and 1930s have re-emerged as nations with their own identities and aspirations.
Between them they have a population in excess of 110 million, with Poland alone having some 40 million.
They have significant industrial and agricultural capacity, a low cost base, and markets which for much of the post war years have been starved of consumer goods.
Many of them will be in the next wave of countries to join the European Union.
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