Stepic says: "I personally believe that central and eastern Europe will stay the most attractive growth market in the whole of Europe and that in a couple of years’ time, we will look back at this crisis as a spot in history." While acknowledging that economic growth levels in the region will be lower than in the pre-credit crunch era – no bad thing, he argues, given the dangers of economic overheating – he still believes that so-called New Europe will continue to outperform the soi-disant Old Europe by some margin. "Central and eastern Europe still offers a number of key advantages versus the EU15 economies," says Stepic, citing such features as low...
