Accession to the European Union on May 1 will not bring instant wealth to the eight central European applicant states. But it might bring more deals for investment bankers.
Much of the corporate activity since the fall of the Berlin Wall has been aimed at bringing in foreign investment and pump-priming local capital markets. Although that process is fairly advanced in the major central European states, it is still continuing as states release their grip on strategically sensitive assets.
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