This paper focuses on the climate change challenge faced by Central & Eastern European countries both those inside the European Union and those outside it. They have enormous energy intensity and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly from energy production, which is oil, and worse,...

The economies of Central and Eastern Europe have inherited serious burdens of environmental pollution, while their economic scope for dealing with these is limited. The transition to the market economy offers chances for improvement, but it also brings new environmental problems. How will the...

The economic reforms taking place in Eastern Europe have in many respects an unfavourable influence on environmental protection. The adjustment of Eastern Europe to the environmental requirements of the European Union necessitates far-reaching changes in the very philosophy of transition,...

The countdown to the realisation of the Single European Market at the end of 1992 is taking place parallel to drastic political and economic changes in Eastern Europe Both of these processes will affect relations between the EC and the CMEA countries The following article analyses the possible...