The accession of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union (EU) in 2007 offers significant theoretical and empirical …. Borrowing from the literature on enlargement-led Europeanisation and EU conditionality, this article discusses how the EU has … sought to influence domestic reform in the two countries through a mix of threats and rewards. What emerges from Bulgaria …

with conditionality and loan size matter. …

South Stream pipeline in the present circumstances? (by Rumen Dobrinsky; pp. 2) Bulgaria and the Russia–Ukraine conflict …Please help us to improve the Statistical Annex by filling in the survey. Graph of the month Ukraine and Russia shares … rising risks for energy supplies and big investment projects (by Rumen Dobrinsky; pp. 3-6) Romania and the Russia–Ukraine …

Belarus, Russia and Ukraine as well as in China. For each country, it provides a forecast relating to GDP growth, inflation … positive growth figures recorded by the global economy as a whole. Central and Eastern Europe, together with Russia, Ukraine … membership are heterogeneous. Three of them, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania, have acquired candidate status; their economies are …

some moderate slowdown in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. A definite growth slowdown was only … recorded in Serbia and Montenegro. Russia and Ukraine performed very well, registering significant and balanced growth. The … acceleration, which spilled over into Ukraine. Growth in the five CEE acceding countries will speed up in 2004, but this is not …

Ukraine) performed quite well. This must be attributed to the ongoing growth in labour productivity and related cost …

group. Bulgaria in 1996-1997 represents the first episode of a full-scale financial crisis, involving drastic currency … domestic and, although severe, were restricted to Bulgaria. Russia's financial crisis in August 1998, despite similar … characteristics and domestic roots as in Bulgaria, had an important international dimension. On the one hand, the first speculative …

financial crisis. We use six regional equity markets of varying degrees of maturity. While for the sample period Bulgaria …, Romania, Cyprus and Ukraine are clearly considered emerging markets, the Greek and the Turkish markets are characterised by …, day-of-the-week effects fade away during the crisis. Contrary to Bulgaria, Cyprus shows no evidence of significant market …