To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this paper aims to assess developments in Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) over the past three decades, and to look forward to what the next 30 years might bring. First, we measure the convergence of per capita income, wages...

Experten-Impulspapier zur Relevanz der aktuellen Trends in Mittelost-/Südosteuropa für die Regionalpolitiken in Österreich - ein fachlicher Orientierungsrahmen für das österreichische Engagement in der EU-Donauraumstrategie.

The protracted recession in the euro area will continue to be a drag on the economic growth of most CESEE countries in 2013. By and large, those countries are small open economies held hostage to the excessive fiscal austerity pursued in the euro area and the sluggish progress on the part of its...