1.   It is true that the reunited Germany needs a prosperous cordon of secure eastern neighbors.

2.   The author analyzes the foreign policy known as Ost-politik, in which the former West Germany adopted an attitude of conciliation and rapprochement toward its Eastern neighbors.

3.   West Europeans tend to view their skilled eastern neighbors as a competitive threat.

4.   We will be safer from aggression of our Eastern neighbors.

5.   Other East European nations are waiting in the wings, but the EU has refused to commit itself to a membership date for its Eastern neighbors.

6.   Outside the capital, Russian forces destroyed a bridge between Chechnya and its eastern neighbor in southern Russia, Dagestan, cutting a main rail and road link.

7.   Poland tightened visa rules with its eastern neighbors in December to ease EU concerns about an illegal flow of immigrants, drugs and arms across the borders.

8.   Poland will introduce visas for its eastern neighbors if the European Union demands that, the deputy interior minister said Thursday.

9.   Poland tightened its visa rules with its eastern neighbors in December to ease EU concerns about an illegal flow of immigrants, drugs and arms across the borders.

10.   Poland also promised to introduce visas for its eastern neighbors, if demanded by the European Union.