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Central and Eastern European Online Library.The term Central and Eastern Europe (abbreviated CEE) has displaced the alternative term East-Central Europe in the context of transition countries, mainly because the abbreviation ECE is ambiguous: it commonly stands for Economic Commission for Europe, rather than East-Central Europe. Slovenia – member of the European Union and NATO Īccording to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, "Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) is an OECD term for the group of countries comprising Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and the three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.".Slovakia – member of the European Union and NATO.Romania – member of the European Union and NATO.Poland – member of the European Union and NATO.
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Lithuania – member of the European Union and NATO.Latvia – member of the European Union and NATO.Hungary – member of the European Union and NATO.Estonia – member of the European Union and NATO.Czech Republic – member of the European Union and NATO.Croatia – member of the European Union and NATO.Bulgaria – member of the European Union and NATO.The CEE countries include the former socialist states, which extend east of Austria, Germany ( western part), and Italy north of Greece and Turkey ( European part) south of Finland and Sweden and west of Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine: According to the World Bank 2008 analysis, the transition to advanced market economies is over for all 10 countries that joined the EU in 20. The CEE countries are further subdivided by their accession status to the European Union (EU): the eight first-wave accession countries that joined the EU on ( Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia), the two second-wave accession countries that joined on 1 January 2007 ( Romania and Bulgaria) and the third-wave accession country that joined on 1 July 2013 ( Croatia). The term CEE includes the Eastern Bloc ( Warsaw Pact) countries west of the post- World War II border with the former Soviet Union the independent states in former Yugoslavia (which were not considered part of the Eastern bloc) and the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (which chose not to join the CIS with the other 12 former republics of the USSR). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) also uses the term "Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs)" for a group comprising some of these countries. Scholarly literature often uses the abbreviations CEE or CEEC for this term. The pre-1989 "Eastern Bloc" (orange) superimposed on current borders.Ĭentral and Eastern Europe is a term encompassing the countries in the Baltics, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe (mostly the Balkans), usually meaning former communist states from the Eastern Bloc and Warsaw Pact in Europe.