These two volumes are an ambitious venture into the largely undiscovered legal ambient of a peculiar niche of Europe; South-Eastern Europe. Pioneering, unorthodox, but also greatly needed. It is an attempt to fill the gap and provide potential investors and generally all interested in the commercial law framework of the Stability Pact countries from the south-eastern region of Europe with a fairly detailed overview of all investment related fields of law in these two volumes. Undoubtedly, this book is unique, if for nothing else, then because it focuses on jurisdictions, the laws of which have been largely neglected so far; especially in the English language literature. One may just speculate whether and to what extent have these markets been bypassed by the major movements of foreign capital in the post-1990s? What more, it may be legitimately asked as well whether the modest results of the Stability Pact could be ascribed also to the fact that the law and legal ambient of these countries have remained a terra incognita virtually up until today? Admittedly, this train of thought has more than a meager justification. Though, nothing more is hoped for here than a modest contribution to the change of such state of affairs for the better. In addition to being a map that could be readily and directly exploited, it is also expected that the politicians, scholars and businesspeople from the region will also benefit from having more than a hearsay about the neighboring countries of the region. To the extent politicians, academics and all the others having a say in shaping the contours of local laws understand that the token of a genuine economic and social development and of becoming more than a commercial backwater is a race in creating and implementing of a maximally business friendly legal system; to the same extent will this compilation be a success.weiterlesen