Narrowing gap: Central European economic performance converging to EU average
Michal Lehuta has a very nice chart of a few selected EU member state’s long-term economic performance. Between 1997-2010 the gap between Central European and Western European GDP’s have diminished...
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Eurostat: GDP per inhabitant varied by one to six across the EU27 Member States
GDP compared to EU27 average, adjusted for purchasing-power parity (prices) In France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus, GDP per inhabitant was within 10% of the EU27 average. Austria, Sweden, Denmark,...
View ArticleHomogeneity of the Visegrad Group
I find it a very interesting and also important question to see how similar are the Visegrad countries, i.e. the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia compared to other EU or Eastern-European...
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Greece, a Divided House and a Need for Constitution
I have been always arguing that the great achievements of the Union, through the free movement of people and capital and the common internal market will create the need of strong common institutions.I...
View ArticleThis time it was not different – bailouts in 2008 and 2011
With Alex Katsiatis we have written a post two years ago about the dysfunctional Greek politics in the context of the Hungarian bailout of ’08, predicting that the Greek party will lead to a similar...
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