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It is not difficult to see why UK companies look to Eastern Europe to invest - easy access to the established EU markets and low- cost labour are a seemingly irresistible combination, especially for manufacturing firms.
However, language barriers, post-Communist rivalries and poor infrastructure are just some of the hurdles to be overcome before anyone can think about profits.
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ROMA migrants from Eastern Europe are living up to 13 at a time in tiny terraced houses in Normanton, council investigators have found. Officials discovered families living in rubbish-strewn homes with smashed windows and doors, rooms full of beds and with little food.
People living nearby say they have seen some take charity bags full of clothes and dump what they do not want outside their home.
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TRAINSPOTTERS in Eastern Europe, I can now say with some certainty, look just the same as the ones back home. Overnight we had rattled and creaked into Poland from the Czech Republic in our beautiful old Art Deco Wagon-Lit carriages, passing through dark forests that seemed to go on for ever.
We had started our unusual Orient-Express journey in busy, touristy Venice, but there we were the next morning, a long way from the canals and gondolas, blinking at the contrast as we rolled slowly past Zywiec.
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NURSES from Eastern Europe put NHS patients in danger because they can't speak proper English, one of Britain's top doctors has warned.
Lord Winston said yesterday that he was particularly worried about those from Romania and Bulgaria who had limited communication skills 'even in their own language'.
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NURSES from Eastern Europe are putting NHS patients in danger because of their poor English, Lord Winston warned yesterday.
The world-renowned doctor said he was particularly worried about those from Romania and Bulgaria who had limited communication skills 'even in their own language'.
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A HUNDRED children from Eastern Europe could get the chance to have the summer of a lifetime with a little help from Post readers.
As Carmarthenshire-based charity Wales Romanian Aid celebrates its 20th anniversary, founder Val Newton is planning to take around 100 deprived children on a summer holiday.
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NURSES from Eastern Europe put NHS patients in danger because they can't speak proper English, one of Britain's top doctors has warned.
Lord Winston said yesterday that he was particularly worried about those from Romania and who had limited communication skills 'even in their own language'.
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Low-skilled workers from Eastern Europe are heading to the UK in their droves to look for work as net migration hit its highest level in more than five years, new figures show.
The number of low-skilled workers, such as some of those in the retail, hospitality and catering sectors, coming from outside the UK has more than doubled in the last nine years.
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