The Eastern member states of the EU have seen impressive economic growth since joining the European Union. This is especially true for the Visegrád countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary), but also, for example, for Slovenia, Romania or Lithuania. In almost all of the ‘accession countries’, the economic development was far better than predicted […]
Dr. Ernst Hillebrand is head of Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s Programme “European Economies of the East” which is located in Budapest. He has been running FES projects in Europe, Latin America and Africa and been acting as director of FES’ Eastern Europe Department and editor of FES’s online journal IPG-Journal.de.