Regional Awards for Excellence 2014: Central & Eastern Europe

Early signs of recovery in the eurozone brought relief to struggling economies across emerging Europe last year but the picture remained very mixed. Countries such as Turkey, Romania and Hungary had a substantial pick-up in growth, but the core central European markets of Poland and Czech Republic were slower to recover from their respective slowdowns. Meanwhile Croatia remained mired in recession, and Russia and Ukraine showed every sign of emulating it even, before the outbreak of the Crimean crisis.