... market under Mikhail Gorbachev. These political reforms eventually led to the liberalization in the Soviet Union thus limiting the far-reaching role of the communist party. Changes in the Soviet Union consequently caused other communist regimes in Eastern European countries like Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria to collapse. This overthrow destroyed the monopoly of communists over political decisions as ... many of their planned socialism projects and focused on private enterprises. The West's focus on market economies and privatization ultimately influenced other third world countrie...

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... Coca-Cola and Pepsi. When Pepsi established a bottling plant in Romania in 1965, it became the first U.S. product produced and sold in the region. Pepsi began producing locally during the communist period and has recently decided to reorganize and retrain its local staff. Pepsi entered into a joint venture with a local firm, Flora and Quadrant, for its Bucharest plant, and has 5 other ... onslaught, has responded with deep discounting. Coke and Pepsi in India: Coca-Cola controlled the Indian market until 1977, when the Janata Party beat the Congress Party of then Prime Minister Indira G...

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... . A recent poll indicated that only 39% of Czechs would currently vote to join the EU in contrast to 19% who would vote out-right against joining. With the Communist and Civic Democratic Party also voicing "Euro-skepticism" the political and popular support looks increasingly thin and with the Czech Republic now expecting to join June 2004 in time for the European Parliament ... job losses to immigrants rising by about 20%. A fourth loss to the EU is with regard to the European Commission's annual Regular Report 2001 which is primarily designed around post-communist candidate countries o...

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