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A DECADE ago, Samorin—a small town in western Slovakia , on the banks of the river Danube—was one of many good places in which to watch the effect of globalisation on central Europe. The town was full of cheap, experienced workers in need of jobs, with unemployment at 20%. Foreign investors duly arrived, notably Samsonite, an American luggage-maker, which set up a factory there in 1997. The town’s location helped, near a four-way border where Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic meet in a cat’s cradle of big roads and railway lines. There are scores of similar towns across the region that attracted jobs from higher-cost, more highly regulated labour markets farther west.

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