Chinese companies have increasingly been targeting Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in the past one and a half decades, while diplomatic relations are also on the rise. This development is quite a new phenomenon but not an unexpected one. On one hand, the transformation of the global…

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…