CEE OUTLOOK report 2026
Central and Eastern Europe enters 2026 in a period of strategic recalibration. Pressures on economic competitiveness, fiscal constraints and shifting policy priorities coincide with a profound security transformation driven by Russia’s war against Ukraine.
In CEE Outlook 2026, our Public Affairs teams analyse the political, regulatory and geopolitical developments set to shape the business environment in the year ahead. Across the region, governments are balancing reform and modernisation with rising defence commitments and deeper European security integration, against a backdrop of continued geopolitical volatility. Hungary’s parliamentary election in April 2026 may prove a key inflection point for both the region and the European Union.
Across the region, the common thread is not uniformity, but simultaneity - a shared recalibration taking place at the same time.
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