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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 12 / 2013 (589)

After the transition

„Due to change having been approached from the point of view of the winners-losers relationship, transformation as a real process was not a reformation per se, but a dislocation of the internal mechanisms for the relocation of the external ones.”


The big transformation for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) persists as a problem for which there are no decided solutions, and not only on the economical side. After almost two and a half decades, the trajectory that was followed without hesitation was proven to have a cumbersome finality. Thus, the optimism for deliverance stood corrected, the traction power of the system being proven profoundly asymmetrical in European terms.

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