Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe Feels Meltdown

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Investors and lenders are pulling back from overstretched economies in Eastern Europe, threatening to force harsh downturns in Hungary and the Baltic states.

OTC Healthcare in Eastern Europe Market Grew at an Average Rate of 6% Annually

Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

This databook is a detailed information resource covering all the key data points on OTC Healthcare in Eastern Europe. It includes comprehensive value volume segmentation and market share data. The databook supplies actual data to 2006 and full forecasts to 2011 for 11 countries covered within the Eastern Europe region.

Eastern Europe Faces Economic Reversal - Report

Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

Despite economic growth in recent years, Eastern Europe may face a severe reversal compared to the crisis in east Asia in the 1990s, an article in the Financial Times states. Relying on footloose foreigners to finance investment has put the region at risk of facing economic difficulties, the articl...

Eastern Europe - Investors take flight

Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

from The Financial Times By Stefan Wagstyl October 8, 2008 While much of the world's attention has been taken by the astonishing economic rise of China and India, it is central and eastern Europe that have been scooping up much of the capital. But just as the big inflows of money to east Asia i...

Reportlinker.com: Examine the Retail Attractiveness of Central and Eastern Europe

Market Wire - Retail: Consumer Interest (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

... centre space in largest cities Retail attractiveness of countries and cities in Central and Eastern Europe Ranking by countries Russia Ukraine Poland Romania Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic Bulgaria Ranking by cities Rankings of cities in each country analysed Profiles of top 20 most attractive cities Key information on 175 largest cities in Central and Eastern Europe List...

Eastern Europe Heads for Slowdown

Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

While eastern European economies have yet to be hit hard by the international financial crisis, the happenings in the West are causing a slowdown in many of the former Soviet Bloc nations.

• Eastern Europe heads for slowdown, risks rising - Feature - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

The Largest Listed Companies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Disclose More Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Data

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

WARSAW, Poland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program publishes its 11th semi-annual Survey of Reporting on Corporate Social

STOXX To Launch New Indexes For Eastern Europe

Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

STOXX Limited, the leading provider of European equity indexes, today launched a new index family that measures the performance of stocks traded in 18 Eastern European countries. The index family comprises the Dow Jones STOXX Eastern Europe Total Market Index (TMI), Dow Jones STOXX Eastern Europe 300 Size, Dow Jones STOXX Balkan TMI, Dow Jones STOXX Eastern Europe 50 and...

Eastern Europe heads for slowdown, risks rising - Feature

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

Vienna- Eastern Europe's slowing economies face growing risks from the global credit crunch, but most of the ex-communist region will post faster growth than western Europe in 2009, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday. Slovakia, which is s...

U.S. Embassy in Budapest: Party Headquarters in Eastern Europe?

The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

Oh, the alleged carousing at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary! The free-flowing booze. The “extensive” toasting. And apparently drunk government officials—while on duty. A foreign service investigator, Matthew Drake, who attended two parties at the embassy in 2004, illuminated...

Biden's "There is No Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe" Moment

YID With LID (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008

During the 1976 Presidential debate between President Ford and then Governor Carter, Ford made a gaffe that many people say caused him the election: "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration." The Moderator gave Ford a chance to rehabilitate himself: "I'm sorry...did I understand you to say, sir, that the Soviets are not using ...

Financial crisis Countries at risk of bankruptcy from Pakistan to Baltics

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

A string of countries face the risk of "going bust" as financial panic sweeps Asia Eastern Europe and Latin America raising the spectre of a strategic crisis in some of the world's most dangerous spots.

Sweet 'n' Sour Cabbage ♥

A Veggie Venture (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

Today's vegetable recipe: Cooked cabbage in a sweet and sour sauce with ground caraway. Inexpensive to make and filling. Traditional fare from Eastern Europe. VEGETABLES ARE NOW COOL American readers, check the produce section in your local supermarket -- there will be new labels, 'COOL labels' they're called, where COOL stands for Country of Origin Labeling. The 2002 Farm Bill requires that...

GM Sinks Amid Europe Weakness

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

GM reported a sales decline of 1.9% in the first nine months of the year in Europe, despite massive gains racked up in Eastern Europe earlier in the year.

1989 and 2008

Stoneman's Corner (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

The economic news of the past couple weeks marks the second time in my life when I have felt the ground moving underneath my feet. The first time was when the communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed. In those days, the news was nothing but good, but I felt like I was living in a [...]