The Europe 2020 presents an ambitious and comprehensive strategy to guide the EU out of the economic crisis, to ensure macroeconomic stability and to put in place an ambitious structural reform agenda. An essential part of this strategy is the introduction of reforms with a medium- to longterm...

According to the EU Evaluation Guidelines, an evaluation is defined as "an evidence-based judgement of the extent to which an intervention has: - Been effective and efficient; - Been relevant given the needs and its objectives; - Been coherent both internally and with other EU policy...

This paper reports the results of a macroeconomic impact assessment of actual structural reform measures in four Member States (Italy, France, Spain and Portugal). For Italy, Spain and Portugal the selection of measures is based on the 2013, 2014 and 2015 National Reform Programmes, while for...

This document presents an ex-post evaluation of the Financial Assistance Programme for the Recapitalisation of Financial Institutions in Spain implemented from July 2012 to January 2014. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the intervention in terms of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency,...

This document presents an ex post evaluation of the three year EU/IMF financial assistance for Portugal, which ended in May 2014. The three-year Portuguese programme was designed to overcome the economic and financial crisis that led to Portugal requesting financial assistance in April 2011,...

The fifth enlargement of the EU took place on 1 May 2004. Its second anniversary is an occasion to review the experience and draw lessons which could be useful for future enlargement. While the accession of the ten new Member States had an important political and strategic dimension, this study...