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Increasingly, policies and laws commonly agreed within the EU shape
the political and economic scenarios of nation states in Europe.
However, the same European context is radically changing,
essentially due to three major recent developments: the adoption of
the Euro, EU enlargement to the east and the implementation of the
Lisbon Strategy of structural reforms for growth and
competitiveness. The book presents a thorough economic analysis of
these three events and of their implications for both existing and
potential EU policies and objectives. Carlo Altomonte and Mario
Nava have written a very rigorous text in an accessible and
jargon-free style, ensuring easy acquisition of invaluable insights
into the European economic set-up and the possible evolution of EU
policies, including an update on the reform of the Growth and
Stability Pact and of the 2007-13 Financial Perspectives. The
accessibility of economic concepts combined with the methodological
rigour of this up-to-date text will be of great interest to both
policy makers and students.
Over the past decade European economic integration has seen
considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of
the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved
and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has
not delivered satisfactory growth performance.
This book is the report of a high-level group commissioned by the
President of the European Commission to review the EU economic
system and propose a blueprint for an economic system capable of
delivering faster growth along with stability and cohesion. It
assesses the EU s economic performance, examines the challenges
facing the EU in the coming years, and presents a series of
recommendations.
The report views Europe's unsatisfactory growth performance during
the last decades as a symptom of its failure to transform into an
innovation-based economy. It has now become clear that the context
in which economic policies have been developed has changed
fundamentally over the past thirty years. A system built around the
assimilation of existing technologies, mass production generating
economics of scale, and an industrial structure dominated by large
firms with stable markets and long term employment patterns no
longer delivers in the world of today, characterized by economic
globalization and strong external competition. What is needed now
is more opportunity for new entrants, greater mobility of employees
within and across firms, more retraining, greater reliance on
market financing, and higher investment in both R&D and higher
education. This requires a massive and urgent change in economic
policies in Europe.
Increasingly, policies and laws commonly agreed within the EU shape
the political and economic scenarios of nation states in Europe.
However, the same European context is radically changing,
essentially due to three major recent developments: the adoption of
the Euro, EU enlargement to the east and the implementation of the
Lisbon Strategy of structural reforms for growth and
competitiveness. The book presents a thorough economic analysis of
these three events and of their implications for both existing and
potential EU policies and objectives. Carlo Altomonte and Mario
Nava have written a very rigorous text in an accessible and
jargon-free style, ensuring easy acquisition of invaluable insights
into the European economic set-up and the possible evolution of EU
policies, including an update on the reform of the Growth and
Stability Pact and of the 2007-13 Financial Perspectives. The
accessibility of economic concepts combined with the methodological
rigour of this up-to-date text will be of great interest to both
policy makers and students.
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