Romania

How many borrowers 'walk away' from their home loans and how many restructure them will shape how banks react to the law

EU11 labour costs have climbed in the past decade but at current rates will not reach the EU28 average until the 2040s

The pressure and the temptation will be to please electors with higher pay, as in previous years

Emerging Europe is better placed than Latin America and Emerging Asia to cope with deteriorating market conditions

Civic disengagement among young Central-East Europeans holds risks of radicalisation

Competent technocratic government could start to tackle oft-ignored shortcomings in Romania's development

Calls for tighter border controls across the Schengen zone will affect non-Schengen members

Ciolos has cross-party support now, but that could change and his lack of a democratic mandate is a weakness