May 16, 2009
Central Europe seems to have escaped from an economic meltdown. However, a bigger problem may be the fear among political elites, some of whom will stick at nothing to stay in power and out of jail, and who treat Mr Berlusconi as their role model and political ally.
Posted by Dániel Antal
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Central Europe, Czech Republic, English, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia |
Due to the Russian-Ukrainian-European gas war Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia were the first serious victims, having not enough energy to heat residential areas. With some delay, Hungary (and Germany) offered some relief for the Serbian plea. Austria joined in later. Hopefully this will demonstrate that Serbia is closer to Central Europe than Russia. Another good news… » read more
Posted by Dániel Antal
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Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, English, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Serbia , Austria, Central Europe, Croatia, Energy Supply, Enlargement & Neighbours, Germany, Hungary, Serbia |
There is a serious gas shortage in Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Serbia. After the show of the French presidency, the European Union is under a real foreign pressure that effects a large group of member states devastatingly. Factories are closing, schools are shut, some part of the population is freezing at home. I think… » read more
Posted by Dániel Antal
It is a very cold winter in Central Europe and New Year’s Eve has a traditional ceremony. Russia cuts off the gas supplies, Ukraine says it is not taking away anything from what amount transported through her territory to European buyers and the EU is trying to help striking a new price deal. When I… » read more
Posted by Dániel Antal
Michal Lehuta has a very nice chart of a few selected EU member state’s long-term economic performance. Between 1997-2010 the gap between Central European and Western European GDP’s have diminished significantly. It looks that Slovenia will reach the EU average level at first, Slovakia and Estonia are the biggest relative winners. On the other side,… » read more
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economy, Economy & Euro, English, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia |
November 17, 2008
Having revealed the logo of the Czech presidency, question marks are already looming: on the eve of the the Central European republic’s act as a coordinating leader of the Union, their head-of-state,Mr. Klaus has just started his usual stunt with organizing a Eurosceptic mini-summit during his Irish state visit. Some people would argue that Mr.… » read more
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, Central Europe, Czech presidency, Czech Republic, EU presidency |
