Is foreign direct investment crossing Europe towards the East? During the last few years, news of foreign direct disinvestments have regularly emerged on the Portuguese media. The group of suspects have been identified as the new European Union members, where low wages, low corporate taxes and a...

The change of economic, social, and political orientation in Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC), together with the accession of a first group into the European Union in 2004, has raised a number of challenging questions. One object of interest has been the implications of Eastern...