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THE tragedy was the worst in Latvia's peacetime history: 54 people killed and dozens injured when a supermarket roof in the capital Riga collapsed. That exemplified, many felt, the corruption and weakness in parts of state administration which has plagued the country since it regained independence in 1991. Was the building constructed in defiance of building codes? Or was a winter garden on the roof poorly drained, so that sodden earth brought concrete beams crashing down on crowds of shoppers?
SLOVAK officials discovered a 700-metre tunnel complete with its own train used to smuggle goods and maybe people from neighbouring Ukraine into the European Union (EU). They seized some 13,100 boxes of cigarettes and arrested a pair of men caught in [ ... ] OVER 200 people, both gay and straight, turned up in Plac Zbawiciela, a vibrant square in central Warsaw on November 15th, to kiss and lay flowers under the charred remains of what had been, up until a few days ago, a pretty 25-metre wide art install [ ... ] IN POLAND political decisions sometimes outweigh business logic especially when state-controlled energy companies that are deemed strategically important are involved.This seems to have been the case with the country’s largest power-sector investme [ ... ]
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