Table Overview 2013 and outlook 2014-2016 (p. 1) Figure 2013 estimate and 2014 forecast for CESEE growth drivers (p. 2) Bulgaria upcoming early elections take centre stage (by Rumen Dobrinsky; p. 3) Croatia recession continues (by Hermine Vidovic; p. 4) Czech Republic fiscal relaxation to...

Serbia after Djindjic (by Vladimir Gligorov) Countries covered Serbia EU enlargement assessing the impact of transfers (by Sándor Richter) EU membership and income level convergence the experience of the Cohesion Countries (by Kazimierz Laski and Roman Römisch) Selected monthly data on the...

Graph of the month Oil price and exchange rate of the Russian rouble, 2008-2014 (p. 1) Opinion corner Is Jean-Claude Juncker's EUR 315 billion European investment plan the proper answer to the EU's anaemic economic performance? (by Sándor Richter, Roman Römisch and Roman Stöllinger; pp. 2-4)...

Growth in the CESEE region will follow the unimpressive pattern displayed by the euro area. The longer-term convergence of income levels in the CESEE countries can no longer be expected to be as rapid as was assumed a decade or so ago. Growth in the period 2015-2017 is not going to deviate...

New Hungarian government prescribes bitter medicine (by S. Richter; pp. 1-2) Keywords Hungary, crisis, fiscal adjustment Countries covered Hungary Topics Macroeconomic Analysis, Forecasts and Policy The steel industry in Central and Eastern Europe restructuring and prospects (by J. Poznanska; pp....

The Czech Republic high growth likely to slow down (by Leon Podkaminer, pp. 1-3) Countries covered Czech Republic Topics Macroeconomic Analysis, Forecasts and Policy Hungary convergence programme revised (by Sándor Richter, pp. 4-6) Countries covered Hungary Topics Macroeconomic Analysis,...

Convergence and labour demand employment projections for the new EU member states up to 2012 (by Robert Stehrer) Countries covered Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Topics Labour and Migration Structures and sectoral linkages in selected new and old...

Regional employment patterns and prospective developments in the new EU member states (by Roman Römisch) Countries covered Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania Topics Regional Development A difficult birth the EU's financial...

Hungarian manufacturing - the shooting star in Central and Eastern Europe (by Doris Hanzl-Weiß and Waltraut Urban) Countries covered CEE, Hungary The 2002 Regular Reports on the EU candidate countries (by Sandor Richter) The Baltic countries from the rouble to the euro (by Pawel Kowalewski)...

Hungary suffers from a severe lack of credibility (by Sándor Richter; pp. 1-2) Keywords sovereign default, IMF Countries covered Hungary Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Russia's WTO accession impacts on Austria (by Vasily Astrov; pp. 3-11) Keywords WTO, trade, FDI Countries covered...