Political Risk

BMI View: The past four months have on the whole supported our view that Slovakia's new three-party government would be more stable than its predecessor which, despite being united... 2006-12-08

BMI View: Czech politics remains in stasis, as the two main parties begin negotiations on forming a government for the second time. An agreement would enable the swift appointment... 2006-11-20

Preliminary results from the first round of Polish local elections on November 12 show, as expected, that the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party sustained defeats in many towns, and... 2006-11-16

BMI View: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's reception of the Polish premier in Berlin on October 30 renewed strained Polish-German relations, but showed little common ground between... 2006-11-03

BMI View: Voters returned the three-party centre-right government to power in early October. The government has gone form having a minority of seats in parliament to a slim majority.... 2006-10-24

BMI View: Public protests in Hungary in September included a far-right political contingent, with sometimes violent results. The questions posed by the treatment of central Europe's... 2006-10-13

BMI View: Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany is holding on to his premiership for now, as poor results in local elections batter his support once more. With or without him, the ruling... 2006-10-02

BMI View: The political situation in the Czech Republic stabilised in September with the appointment of a new government, but this is likely to be a temporary phenomenon. A vote of... 2006-09-26

BMI View: The ruling coalition has lost one of its chief constituent parties, Self-Defense (SO), following a row over next year's budget. We believe a re-configured coalition to be... 2006-09-22

BMI View: Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcscany's current preoccupation with his own domestic political travails will take some of the pressure off official Slovak-Hungarian... 2006-09-19