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"Neo-nationalist parties emerged victorious in Hungary and Poland after the financial crisis as a political consequence of disenchantment with the neoliberal approaches ushered in by EU accession and subordinate economic integration. This article analyses, in a comparative perspective, the strategies adopted by the governing neo-nationalist parties in Hungary and Poland with regard to trade unions and industrial relations as part of their broader political-economic projects."

"Die osteuropäischen Länder waren von der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise unterschiedlich betroffen. Ihre Auswirkungen waren in den finanziarisierten Ländern mit hohen inländischen Fremdwährungsschulden sowie hohem Handels- und Leistungsbilanzdefizit deutlich ausgeprägter als in jenen Ländern, deren Wachstumsmodell stärker auf den Export setzte. Bei den finanziarisierten Ökonomien brachten austrocknende internationale Kreditzuflüsse das Wachstumsmodell zum Einsturz, während die exportorientierten Ökonomien primär durch die einbrechende deutsche Exportkonjunktur betroffen waren. Die Wirtschaftspolitik ist in den Ländern mit finanziarisiertem Wachstumsmodell noch stärker restriktiv als in den eher exportorientierten Ökonomien angelegt. Sie ist hier primär auf die Interessen der Gläubigerbanken orientiert."

"This paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. The focus is on the participatory character of the governments' COVID-19 packages, on their design, and targets.

The authors find that while social actors were selectively integrated in the policy-making, depending on the established tripartite framework and government political composition, support packages deployed similar tools (such as short-time work provisions, loan and guarantee programmes through development banks, tax/security payment deferrals) though with varying weight and scope. Only in Austria and Czechia the governments adopted specific measures for the export sector. Additionnally, the scope of the fiscally immediately relevant measures is rather limited, resulting in lesser loan programs and social provisions.

Although the budgetary limitations have been temporarily suspended by the European Union, the governments in the periphery, regardless of their political inclinations, remain constrained by their uneven integration into the EU's single market, as well as by their limited access to international financial markets."