Central Europe & Baltic States
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Hungary / Economy
Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai warned the country's main political parties on February 22 of the potential rise of the far-right Jobbik party in April's upcoming elections, calling the party a 'monster that threatened democracy'. Jobbik (which campaigns on a broadly ethnic-nationalist policy platform)'s popularity has increased steadily throughout the economy's...
2010-02-25Hungary / Economy
According to latest data from the Ministry of Finance, Hungary's central government budget deficit came in at HUF914bn through November 2009, marking a slight improvement upon the...
2010-02-25Lithuania / Economy
Industrial production in Lithuania contracted by 6.8% y-o-y in January according to latest data from Statistics Lithuania, compared to falls of 7.3% and 8.3% in December and November...
2010-02-25Country Risk Rating
Hungary
Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai warned the country's main political parties on February 22 of the potential rise of the far-right Jobbik party in April's upcoming...
2010-02-25Lithuania
According to a statement by Lithuania's Finance Ministry in late February, the government of Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius is planning on setting a firm target date for eurozone...
2010-02-25Estonia
Ratings agencies Fitch and S&P both raised their outlooks for Estonia's sovereign rating to 'stable' from 'negative' on the back of an increasingly favourable outlook for...
2010-02-22Lithuania
Latest unemployment data from Statistics Lithuania shows official unemployment spiking to 13.8% in Q3, up from 5.9% at the same point last year. More importantly from a social stability...
2010-01-28Hungary
According to latest data from the Ministry of Finance, Hungary's central government budget deficit came in at HUF914bn through November 2009, marking a slight improvement upon the...
2010-02-25Lithuania
Industrial production in Lithuania contracted by 6.8% y-o-y in January according to latest data from Statistics Lithuania, compared to falls of 7.3% and 8.3% in December and November...
2010-02-25Estonia
Estonian industrial output contracted on average by 26.0% in 2009, exactly in line with BMI's estimate. Going forward, we continue to expect a marked improvement in industrial...
2010-02-22Estonia
Estonian balance of payments dynamics are expected to normalise somewhat beginning in 2010. After posting its first deficit in over a decade in 2009, the financial account is expected...
2010-02-22Hungary
The successful passage of 2010's state budget in Hungary's parliament on November 30, which was the last key test for the government of Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, marked the end...
2009-12-16Czech Republic
Czech President Vaclav Klaus is likely to eventually sign the EU's Lisbon Treaty into law, but he is set to delay this move until the Treaty is fully ratified by all other EU states,...
2009-06-25Estonia
We expect the centre-right People's Union to replace the centre-left Social Democrats (SD) as the junior partner in Estonia's coalition government. The move will restore a parliamentary...
2009-05-28Czech Republic
The Czech government's loss of a non-confidence vote on March 24 will have political repercussions throughout the region. With the Czech Republic now likely to face months of policy...
2009-03-25
