| Table of Contents: | | | | GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS : EE, EUR, Eastern Europe, EU, Baltic states, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Western Europe | | | | TOPICS : economy, politics, balance of payments, election, exchange rate, fiscal, foreign investment, government, growth, party, industry, social, banking, capital flows, debt, employment, foreign trade, opposition, population, productivity | | | | SIGNIFICANCE : The crisis has led to deep recessions in most of the CEE countries and had a dramatic impact on public finances in all. Although CEE is likely to begin to recover in 2010, there will be no return to rapid pre-2008 growth rate |
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