This document complements the study; Scoping the Socio-economic Performance of the EU Proximity Economy. This report presents a framework for evaluating and monitoring the proximity economy, including through the identification of key performance indicators (KPIs). The analysis in this report...

This report presents the results for a trend analysis, partly using estimated data, covering the 2000-2022 period for the countries and indicators from the EIS 2023. The trend analysis identifies possible key turning points in the development of individual indicators. The report describes four...

The EU has established ambitious targets under the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 that by 2030 all European households should be served by a Gigabit network, and all populated areas covered by next generation wireless high speed networks offering performance at least equivalent to that of...

The 2014 Broadband Cost Reduction Directive (BCRD) seeks to support the deployment of high speed broadband by reducing costs associated with civil works and streamlining administrative procedures for network deployment. The BCRD is ripe for review in light of new EU objectives to foster Gigabit...