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Äike
06-18-2010, 10:16 PM
European Economic Sustainability Index (http://www.epc.eu/pub_details.php?cat_id=2&pub_id=1127)


European Economic Sustainability Index
16 June 2010

Launched on the eve of the European Council meeting, this European Economic Sustainability Index (EESI) has been designed by Fabian Zuleeg to enable a comparison of the long term economic sustainability of EU Member States. Each EU country is simultaneously assessed according to six criteria (deficits, national debt, growth, competitiveness, governance/ corruption and cost of ageing) and then ranked against the other 26. The 2010 data show that Scandinavian countries, plus Estonia, perform best, and northern/central European countries such as the Netherlands and Germany also perform well. Greece comes out bottom, closely followed by Italy with Portugal also performing badly.

PDF (http://www.epc.eu/documents/uploads/pub_1127_eesi.pdf)

Looks like our Prime minister is correct, Estonia will become a Nordic tiger (http://balticbusinessnews.com/article/2010/06/15/Ansip_Estonia_needs_to_become_a_Nordic_tiger) when we are out of the crisis.

Ibericus
07-05-2010, 07:35 PM
If Iceland was part of the EU, it would show at the bottom of that list...

Äike
07-05-2010, 07:37 PM
If Iceland was part of the EU, it would show at the bottom of that list...

This is about the long term economic sustainability of EU Member States.

Ibericus
07-05-2010, 07:39 PM
This is about the long term economic sustainability of EU Member States.
Exactly. That's why I said "IF"

Äike
07-05-2010, 07:46 PM
Exactly. That's why I said "IF"

Iceland has plans to join the EU, let's see what the future brings.