output, construction, foreign trade and quarterly GDP figures confirm this development. The economic recovery in the 'old EU … Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. A challenge to the enlarged Union's (EU …, only Estonia and Lithuania currently meet all the Maastricht convergence criteria. A brief study of foreign trade data …

some moderate slowdown in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. A definite growth slowdown was only …

–Ukraine conflict little affected by potential trade and investment disruption, more by political escalation (by Gábor Hunya; pp. 7 …-10) Bilateral trade between Bulgaria and Romania the upturn after EU accession (by Sándor Richter; pp. 11-13) Recommended reading (p …

European Union, New EU Member States Topics Regional Development The new EU members' potential for trade in services (by J …. Wörz, pp. 8-12) Keywords Trade, Services Countries covered New EU Member States Topics International Trade and …

are added (covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland … in unit labour costs. Despite this (and despite growth being weaker than expected in the euro zone), NMS foreign trade … continues to perform excellently. Foreign trade has been even more instrumental in generating GDP growth in the first quarter of …

(except in Hungary). Inflation slowed down to very low levels and is no longer a serious problem. Hungary and Slovakia will … growth in Ukraine has been spectacular, reflecting weak investment demand and the deterioration of foreign trade. By and …

year, largely thanks to expanding domestic demand - in particular of investment (Czech Republic, Hungary and Latvia) and of … domestic currencies (Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). After a temporary increase in 2004 (largely caused by tax adjustments prior … outstanding feature of last year's economic developments was a boost in foreign trade (or of intra-EU dispatches and arrivals in …

reviews the developments of inter-industry and intra-industry specialization of CEECs in international trade with the EU …

This paper estimates a classical gravity model for trade on aggregate trade volumes between OECD and transition … countries. The results are used to analyse and make projections on trade flows into and out of Southeast European countries … main conclusion is that Southeast Europe can no longer be viewed as a region from the point of view of aggregate trade …