While transition-specific reforms will sooner or later come to an end, other reforms will never be complete. Constant reform efforts are the key to achieving a path of sustainable high real growth. Maintaining a faster pace of average real growth than in the European Union is a minimum requirement for keeping the catchingup process going in the transition economies.
But I am afraid that we have become very selective in our perception of Central and Eastern Europe. We tend to take note only of certain developments and give some good advice.