An Analysis of the Quality of Life of CEE-8, Baltic and CIS-4 Countries

The main aims of this article is to analyze quality of life before and after the economic crisis of the former Soviet Bloc countries or other new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE-8) and the Baltic States, and to compare them on the level of the old Europe (EU-15) and CIS-4 (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan) countries. The literature review shows the quality of life is in previous publications of author. The Eastern European countries were part of the Soviet Bloc. Based on this and previous publications, we will offer a number of generalized suggestions.