Political Risk

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

BMI View: The precise outcome of parliamentary elections in October is hard to predict, but the risk of a change in policy direction is low. The next parliament is likely to be... 2006-08-25

BMI View: The only stable trend amid recent political turbulence has been the consolidation of power by the largest faction in the governing coalition, the PiS party. But it is debatable... 2006-08-02

BMI View: The new Smer-led government has released a programme committing to the 2009 euro target and toning down some of its pre-election pledges. We remain concerned over the... 2006-08-01