The provision of a safe and reliable electricity supply has a central place in modern social life. The rise of electricity prices and the process of liberalisation of the electricity market are the two main factors which have made it necessary to modify the current traditional ways of protecting...

This Paper analyses the importance of regulatory reform for the creation of an effective legal and regulatory system in Western Balkan countries. The authors explore the progress achieved in this reform area, arguing that regulatory reform was mostly partial, focused on specific sectors and...

This paper looks at the interlinking of inward FDI, EU accession, and transition-related structural reform processes, and identifies the largest lags of SEE-6 countries in EU accession and transition processes, whose removal would have a positive impact on inward FDI. The analysis is based on...