All Visegrad countries (i.e. the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland) have decreased their structural budget deficits below 3% of GDP by 2014 and, consequently, exited the Excessive Deficit Procedure – corrective arm of the Stability and Growth Pact of the EU. The external pressure from…

Slow progress within the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) program and disappointment of all affected partners can be explained by both problems arising on the EU and the Eastern Partners’ side. Besides recent economic difficulties, diverging member state interests and approaches including the ‘South…