Since joining the EU in 2004, the Czech Republic has become one of the continent’s busiest road transport hubs. The country urgently needs to modernize its motorways. But the economic crisis has turned the project into an...

The impact of climate change on agriculture in the new member states of the European Union, which potentially includes droughts, storms, hail, heavy rainfall causing flashfloods and pests, has been addressed by a number of...

This article links contemporary governance problems in the region to a broader vision for state reform and transition.

This article argues that think tanks have a critically important role to play in developing fresh ideas in the face of democratic decline and economic crisis

Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia hope to become members of the Euro area by January 2007; Latvia targets full membership in 2008 and Slovakia hopes to join the Eurozone in 2009. Is this likely?

Accession to the EU on May 1, 2004 has presented the Central and East European states (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) with a new set of policy challenges as regards the...