New "rust belt" grows in eastern Europe as crisis bites

2009/07/21 20:12:32 @Reuters: International News

MISKOLC, Hungary (Reuters) - Heavy industries across eastern Europe, once the beacons of communist "planned economies," survived the collapse of communism 20 years ago but may not live to see the end of the current economic crisis. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=juSVzitzQXk:yvwX1TCE5ZA:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=juSVzitzQXk:yvwX1TCE5ZA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=juSVzitzQXk:yvwX1TCE5ZA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=juSVzitzQXk:yvwX1TCE5ZA:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=juSVzitzQXk:yvwX1TCE5ZA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/juSVzitzQXk" height="1" width="1"/
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