social performance of the EU member states is necessary. In such line of argument, the authors propose, as novelty, an … development of the EU member states, able to provide consistent information about some of the threats against the EU economic … governments, businesses and civil society aiming to improve the economic and social performance of the 27 EU countries. Developing …

und Wirtschaftswachstum. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Zusammensetzung des öffentlichen Budgets und der damit … wirtschaftliche Entwicklung auswirken. Die deskriptive Analyse zeigt, dass Deutschland im Vergleich zu anderen EU … Wirtschaftswachstum negativ korreliert sind, und dass eine Konsolidierung der Haushalte über Ausgabenkürzungen aus …

twelve old and six new member countries of the European Union (EU) that are characterized by substantial differences in … indicators that come from a comparable set of identical data. We show that nowcasting works well for the new EU countries because …, although that variability in their GDP growth data is larger than that of the old EU economies, the economic significance of …