Central and Eastern Europe is a geopolitical term encompassing the countries in Northeast Europe (primarily the Baltics ), Central Europe , Eastern Europe , and Southeast Europe (primarily the Balkans ), usually meaning former communist states from the Eastern Bloc and Warsaw Pact in Europe , as well as from former Yugoslavia . Scholarly literature often uses the abbreviations CEE or CEEC for this term. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) also uses the term "Central and Eastern European Countries" (CEECs) for a group comprising some of these countries. This term is sometimes used as an alternative to the term "Eastern Europe," for more neutral grouping.
6-572: Central and Eastern Europe Development Institute ( CEED ) is an institute created to demonstrate and underline the investment and development potential of Central and Eastern European countries ( Bulgaria , Croatia , Czech Republic , Estonia , Hungary , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Romania , Slovakia and Slovenia ). CEED Institute sets up standards for regional cooperation and promotes values of free market economy, modernization, innovation and competitiveness. CEED Institute has been founded by Dr. Jan Kulczyk , Polish entrepreneur. The institute
12-716: Is also supported by the key entrepreneurs from Central and Eastern Europe , the CEED Institute Programme Board, among others: Zdeněk Bakala - Czech businessman and financier who co-founded BXR, Sandor Demjan chairman of TriGranit , Indrek Neivelt an Estonian banker, Arūnas Šikšta - the Chairman of the Advisers group on the State controlled company's restructuring programme for the Prime minister office of
18-593: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , "Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) is an OECD term for the group of countries comprising Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and the three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania." The term Central and Eastern Europe (abbreviated CEE ) has displaced
24-706: The Eastern bloc); and the three Baltic states – Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania (which chose not to join the CIS with the other 12 former republics of the USSR). The CEE countries are further subdivided by their accession status to the European Union (EU): the eight first-wave accession countries that joined the EU on 1 May 2004 ( Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Czech Republic , Slovakia , Poland , Hungary , and Slovenia ),
30-580: The Republic of Lithuania, Former CEO & Managing Director TEO LT AB. President Lech Wałęsa is the honorary ambassador of the CEED Institute. Central and Eastern Europe The term CEE includes the Eastern Bloc ( Warsaw Pact ) countries west of the post- World War II border with the former Soviet Union; the independent states in former Yugoslavia (which were not considered part of
36-674: The two second-wave accession countries that joined on 1 January 2007 ( Romania and Bulgaria ) and the third-wave accession country that joined on 1 July 2013 ( Croatia ). According to the World Bank 2008 analysis, the transition to advanced market economies is over for all 10 countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. The CEE countries include the former socialist states, which extend east of Austria , Germany ( western part ), and Italy ; north of Greece and Turkey ( European part ); south of Finland and Sweden ; and west of Belarus , Moldova , Russia , and Ukraine : According to
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