The paper addresses the period preceding and following the EU accession in 2004 reconstructing the major developments in trade and FDI. It relies on the detailed bilateral trade and FDI data of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The assessment sheds new light on the growth and...

Romanian SMEs can directly benefit from the Sectoral Operational Programme “Increase of Economic Competitiveness” (SOP IEC) and some parts of the Regional Operational Programme (ROP) in the 2007–2013 period. There has been wide interest for these subsidies on behalf of SMEs but major...