“…Several recent studies have shown that by and large, the group of Central and Eastern European member states, including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary, despite the initial fiscal problems in the period of the global financial crisis after 2008, managed to stabilize their fiscal policy [Bökemeier and Stoian 2016;Krajewski et al, 2016;Wysocki, 2017].…”