Political Risk
Poland
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...
2005-10-04Czech Republic
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...
2005-09-30Slovakia
The minority government's parliamentary position has weakened further, following the expulsion of one of the four parties from the ruling coalition.
2005-09-30Poland
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...
2005-09-05Poland
The government's intended legislative amendments - currently awaiting presidential approval after securing upper and lower house support -fall into four categories of reform. The...
2005-08-02Czech Republic
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...
2005-07-05Poland
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...
2005-07-05Slovakia
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....
2005-07-05Hungary
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...
2005-07-05Slovakia
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




