Political Risk

Having won 155 seats in the Polish legislature (compared to the PO's 133 and the ex-governing Democratic Left Alliance's 55), the PiS has moved swiftly to nominate Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz... 2005-10-04

As parliamentary elections draw nearer, the Socialist government faces an uphill struggle to close the gap with the opposition Civic Democrats in opinion polls, although increased... 2005-09-30

The minority government's parliamentary position has weakened further, following the expulsion of one of the four parties from the ruling coalition.

In what may prove to be the last opinion poll prior to September's parliamentary and October's presidential elections, the Polish left appears to be struggling to consolidate its... 2005-09-05

The government's intended legislative amendments - currently awaiting presidential approval after securing upper and lower house support -fall into four categories of reform. The... 2005-08-02

When Jiri Paroubek was appointed the new Czech prime minister, replacing Stanislav Gross after the financial scandal that ultimately forced his resignation, little was expected of... 2005-07-05

Poland's two main centre-right opposition parties have claimed that they are capable of lowering the 2006 budget deficit below the PLN30bn (equivalent to 3% of GDP) envisaged by the... 2005-07-05

With the recent rejections of the new EU constitution by French and Dutch voters, the EU 'project' is experiencing a debilitating crisis just a year after its largest-ever enlargement.... 2005-07-05

Yet the situation that Hungary now finds itself in is not novel: in February 2004, Tibors Draskovics replaced Csaba Laszlo as head of the finance ministry, in a move that that was... 2005-07-05

The recent trouble was triggered by the decision in May of one of the junior coalition members, the New Civic Alliance (ANO), to oppose a university education reform championed by... 2005-06-10