With this event, the OeNB clearly demonstrates once more that it is, inside the Eurosystem, at the forefront of the analysis of European integration. The topic that we have for today - South Eastern European challenges and prospects - is indeed a broad one.1 Challenges refer mainly to those that arise in the process of transition from a centrally planned to a market economy.
In this respect, they are similar to the ones that those eight countries faced that joined the EU earlier in the year.