Thu Jun 16, 2011 15:28 GMT |
The recent proposal by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso’s to close Croatia’s four remaining accession chapters, and setting July 1 2013 as a tentative accession date, reaffirms our long-held view that Croatia will join the EU by 2013. However, there remain a number of obstacles on the road to full EU membership. The proposal… [Read more]
Tags: Closing chapters, convergence, Croatia, EU Accession, European Commission, Jose manuel Barroso, Western Balkans
Posted in: Emerging Europe, FDI, General, infrastructure, Political Risk
Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:32 GMT |
Political risk is a perennial concern for foreign investors in Turkey, and a frequent cause of volatility on the Istanbul markets. Yet despite threats of military coups, an on-again off-again EU accession process, deep social tensions between secularist and moderate Islamist institutions, and a protracted ethnic Kurdish insurgency, the Turkish economy and financial markets have… [Read more]
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Tags: AKP, Country Risk, coup, Ergenekon, EU Accession, financial markets, foreign policy, IMF, military, NATO, Political Risk, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Eurozone, General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Podcast, Political Risk, US