A BRIEF RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

The issue of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been and is being discussed intensively, with concerns both at national and international level. Given the divergent distribution of ISD inflows at Central and Eastern European level and the potential of foreign direct investment to represent a "new Marshall Plan" for Central and Eastern European countries, we have carried out a brief analysis of the effects of foreign capital in Estonia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania, following the highlighting of the impact on the economic, social and natural environment from the perspective of sustainable development.