The CENTROPE region, spanning the Austrian Länder of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, the Western Hungarian administrative units of Gyor–Moson–Sopron and Vas, the Czech region of South Moravia and the Slovak self–governing regions of Bratislava and Trnava, is an important location...

Austria's economy recorded a robust upswing in 2006, with real gross domestic product increasing by 3.2 percent. Growth drivers were exports and rising investment activity, while recent private consumer demand remained rather moderate. Although all Länder registered an upturn, these demand...

The "Centrope – Middle European Region" was established in 2003 by representatives of the cities and regions of Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, West Transdanubia, Bratislava, Western Slovakia, and South Moravia. As an institutional framework for cross-border cooperation, it is supposed to...

The transformation countries in Central and Eastern Europe are undergoing rapid change in their sectoral and regional economic structures. In many regions, manufacturing industries which had had a dominant position during the time of socialist controlled economy have since given way to services...

The Austrian economy continued to grow strongly in 2007, gross value added increased by 3.3 percent in real terms. However, a slow-down set in during the second half of the year, with the rate of growth dropping 0.4 percentage points below the figure for the first half (+3.5 percent)....

The economic situation in 2005 lost some of its momentum in the first half of the year, but in the second half the Austrian economy saw dynamic development. The gross value added (without agriculture and forestry) rose slightly more than 2 percent in 2005. The weakening of export growth...