European Economic Sustainability Index

[Äike]

European Economic Sustainability Index

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.

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Looks like our Prime minister is correct, Estonia will become a Nordic tiger when we are out of the crisis.

[Ibericus]

If Iceland was part of the EU, it would show at the bottom of that list...

[Äike]

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]

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

Exactly. That's why I said "IF"

[Äike]

Exactly. That's why I said "IF"

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