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Eastern-, Central-, South-Eastern Europe Research Centre

Main research topics

  • Central- and South-Eastern-Europe: economic development and integration prospects
  • EU's Neighbourhood Policy (Eastern Partnership and the Union for the Mediterranean)
  • Ukraine and Russia (inner economic trends and foreign economic relations)
  • Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): geopolitical and economic position and reintegration tendencies
  • Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Baltic States: cooperation and competition in the European Union,
  • European perspectives of Turkey

Zsuzsa Ludvig   

  • Russian economy, main Russian macroeconomic trends, foreign economic relations with special focus on the European Union (Common Economic Space, energy dialogue, relations with new EU-members) and China.
  • Ukrainian economy, main macroeconomic trends, foreign economic relations, EU-Ukrainian relationship
  • Eastern vector of the European neighbourhood policy (ENP): the Eastern Partnership
  • Economic relations within the post-soviet space, integration attempts and dezintegration tendencies
  • Impacts of the global economic crisis in the post-Soviet space
  • Russian-Hungarian and Ukrainian-Hungarian relations

Tamás Novák   

  • Problems of transformation in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia
  • The Balkans and the European integration process. Prospects and consequences
  • Possible solutions for stability in the Balkans, the process of economic and political stabilisation
  • Development policy challenges in East Central Europe
  • Hungary's economic relations with its neighbours
  • Foreign direct capital flows in the Balkans
  • Short and long term macroeconomic processes in Eastern Europe.

Tamás Szigetvári   

  • The relationship between South Eastern Europe and Turkey, Turkey's accession to the European Union
  • Economic and social development, regional role of Turkey,
  • Regional development of the infrastructure in Central and South-Eastern Europe

Gábor Túry   

  • Economic and political transformation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, membership in the European Union
  • Role of the transnational companies in the catching- up process in Central-Europe
  • Social and regional inequalities in the Visegrád-countries
  • World economy and new governance in the FDI inflow

Csaba Weiner   

  • Factors and perspectives of the development of the Russian economy
  • Russia in the transforming global energy economy with special attention to the oil and gas sector
  • Development of the international relations of Russia after the change of regime
  • Foreign direct investment in and from Russia
  • Present situation and future perspectives in the relationship between Russia and Hungary

Anna Wisniewski   

  • Poland's economy: preparation for EMU membership, regional development, budgetary and tax policy
  • European Central Bank policy and enlargement of the eurozone
  • German economy and the reform process, conclusions for Central and Eastern Europe










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