Location Patterns Changed in Austria due to Opening of Eastern Europe?

The intensification of bilateral relationships with the new democracies of Eastern Central Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain has tended to work against the traditional west-east divide in Austrian regional growth patterns. However, a basic change in location advantages in Austria did not occur in the framework of the first phase of eastern integration (1989-2003). The effects of integration on location have so far remained overlaid by general suburbanisation and decentralisation phenomena. Within the border region developments have therefore been quite different.