1.   His talks with Czech officials, including ailing President Vaclav Havel whom he visited in hospital, focused on the planned enlargement of the North Atlantic Alliance.

2.   Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus arrived in Ireland Monday and discussed planned enlargement of the European Union with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.

3.   The EU is seeking to revise its funding programs to cover the cost of its planned enlargement into the eastern Europe early next decade.

4.   He pointed to the risk that efforts by EU Mediterranean states to safeguard their economic interests could hold up or even block planned eastern enlargement.

5.   He said the planned EU enlargement into central and eastern Europe would fall victim to failure to achieve an accord at Amsterdam.

6.   By early December, NATO is due to have completed an internal study on its planned enlargement into eastern Europe.

7.   VW had reacted by freezing its new investments and threatened to transfer a planned enlargement of production capacity to Hungary and Slovakia, where wage costs are markedly lower.

8.   Previous statements from both sides have predicted there will be no agreement on the thorny issue of planned NATO enlargement to former Warsaw Pact countries, opposed by Russia.

9.   The alliance is seeking to construct a special relationship with Russia to offset concerns in Moscow about its planned enlargement into eastern Europe.