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Eastern Europe may have advantages in terms of bureaucracy. It's far easier to experiment with the rules when you don't have a huge number of existing businesses/processes that need to be changed, very similar to how it's easier to change an API in a newish products vs, say, Windows.

BUT: Eastern Europe also has huge drawbacks. In countries like Poland, Hungary, or Bulgaria, your risk of abrupt changes in the law (see above) or simply ignorance of the rule of law, is somewhat elevated compared to France, the US, or Germany.

And while these countries want to attract foreign investors, if you actually want to spend significant time in the country, or hire foreigners to work there, you better make sure your neither dark-skinned nor jewish.