limits to EU-CEE's growth model are exacerbated by exogenous challenges of the 'twin' (green and digital) transitions, and …The EU member states of Central Eastern Europe (EU-CEE) have experienced rapid convergence in the decades following … the fallout of the pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine. This reinforces the imperative for EU-CEE to transition to a …

This paper focuses on the growth and convergence of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE … making this transition happen. …

green transition, and d) use policy levers to stimulate the automation of low productivity jobs and ease the transition into …-CEE) started their transition to market capitalism. All countries experienced deep recessions in the early 1990s, but since have … achieved mostly sustained convergence with Western Europe. Many EU-CEE countries have overtaken Southern EU member states in …

, manufacturing, green growth and environment. The objective is to inspire thought in the reader and to highlight the necessity for a … enable an even more successful catching up, or convergence, with the Western economies. This study includes an analysis of … the countries that have been more successful in transition. A measurement was made of the export market shares as well as …

, the absolute and conditional convergence, due to the relative homogeneity of the EU-28. Furthermore, the model developed … implies values of the speed of convergence corresponding to the reality observed. Lastly, the model confirms that the Eastern … Enlargement represented an acceleration in absolute convergence. …