Introduction

Publication within the project “The V4 towards migration challenges in Europe. An analysis and recommendations” is financed by Visegrad Fund

Energy Supplies in the Countries from the Visegrad Group

The purpose of this Special Issue was to collect and present research results and experiences on energy supply in the Visegrad Group countries. This research considers both macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects. It was important to determine how the V4 countries deal with energy management, how they have undergone or are undergoing energy transformation and in what direction they are heading. The articles concerned aspects of the energy balance in the V4 countries compared to the EU, including the production of renewable energy, as well as changes in its individual sectors (transport and food production). The energy efficiency of low-emission vehicles in public transport and goods deliveries are also discussed, as well as the energy efficiency of farms and energy storage facilities and the impact of the energy sector on the quality of the environment

E-Business In Central And Eastern European Countries: Measures For Business Performance Analysis

Even though Internet usage in CEE population is increasing, it is below European average. The majority of companies are recognizing the need to do business electronically. However, most companies are currently still at the beginning stages: e-business does not reach operational processes indepth. Changes in the way a business is carried out influence business performance analysis. We argue that this happens mainly in the areas of customers, employees, intangibles, operational processes and also finance. For CEE e-business companies, at their present stage of development, the most important area is customer analysis. We present and discuss a number of measures that can be used to evaluate these areas and draw attention to some differences between traditional and e-business companies

Manka goes to work: public childcare in the Visegrad countries 1989–2009

Contents: Ágota Scharle: Foreword (3); Hana Hašková: Factors contributing to the decline in childcare services for children under the age of three in the Czech Republic (4-20); Věra Kuchařová: Supply and demand for children’s day-care facilities and its determinants in the Czech Republic (21-40); Jana Válková: What is the direction of the Czech childcare policy? (41-56); Andrea Gyarmati: Changing values and measures in population policy, social policy and child protection in the Hungarian system of family benefits from 1989 to 2008 (57-82); Dorottya Szikra: Eastern European faces of familialism: Hungarian and Polish family policies from a historical perspective (83-95); Milena L ange, Ewa Frątczak: Day care services for children in Poland, 1980–2008 (96-106); Daniel Gerbery: Public childcare in the Slovak Republic: development, outcomes and public attitudes (107-123)

Forecasting migration between the EU, V4 and Eastern Europe. Impact of visa abolition. OSW Report, July 2014

This book is the result of one year of solid work among a multinational research team assembled from seven states (Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova). It aims at a detailed analysis of migration patterns and migration forecasts from Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova to the EU/V4. In particular, the nexus between EU visa policy and migration dynamics as well as the impact of economic, political and institutional factors on migration from Eastern Europe have been investigated. The importance of migration policy must be stressed here. Together with demand for the foreign labour force (labour market needs, level of wages, existing work opportunities) and migration networks (including ethnic links), migration policy has a powerful influence on the scale, directions and characteristics of human flows