The 4th DG ECFIN Annual Research Conference was held on 11-12 October 2007 in Brussels, with over 100 participants. The theme was 'Growth and income distribution in an integrated Europe: does EMU make a difference?'. The choice of topic for the conference was inspired by growing concern about...

Between 2000 and 2008 Slovakia grew by almost 6% per year in per capita terms. As a result, Slovakia substantially narrowed the economic gap that separated it from more developed western European countries: Slovak GDP per capita increased from 43% of the EU-15 average in 2000 to 64% in 2008. The...

This country study finds that Poland stands at a crossroads and explores what mix of macroeconomic and structural policies would be most efficient in lifting the Polish economy to a new equilibrium, placing it on a fast-convergence track. Public finance reform, deepening competitiveness and...

In 2003, the ECOFIN Council gave the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) a mandate to produce a new set of long-run budgetary projections for all twenty-five Member States covering pensions, health care, long-term care, education, unemployment transfers and, if possible, contributions to...