Many of the European Union’s new member states are in an ambiguous position regarding biofuels. Why are agro-producers in these countries in two minds about this ‘attractive’ sector?

What does the mix of traditional and alternative approaches to local development hold for the Roma communities in Hungary’s northeast?

The author uses tax-benefit models to assess the socio-economic implications of some of the flat tax reforms introduced in the region. She concludes that a flat income tax combined with a basic social allowance and some other...

This article analyses the differing social development paths pursued by the Visegrád and Baltic countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with a focus on Latvia and Hungary. The authors argue that Hungary’s elites pursued a...

This article describes how methodology from the European ‘Quality of Life’ survey has been used to measure social exclusion in the new EU member states and the candidate countries. These results indicate that, in most of the...

Have climate change mitigation projects in the region generated compelling environmental and development benefits? Not always.

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...