Latest update: 21/08/2009 

- Economic crisis - government - Hungary - Romania - Slovenia


Eastern Europe's economic woes
The financial crisis is taking a heavy toll in central and Eastern Europe, where the downturn brought an economic boom to a grinding and painful halt. Focus investigates how Romania is cutting costs to battle the effects of the global recession.
Nicoleta Dragusin, correspondent in Bucharest and Margit Molnar, an economist at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), join Focus to discuss Romania's economic problems.
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