This Monitoring report on the implementation of FP6 during the year 2006 represents a unique endeavour, as it is bridging from the traditional approach to monitoring in FP6 (and previous Framework Programmes) to the new requirements for monitoring in FP7.

This first FP7 Monitoring Report covers the year 2007 and is the first one based on a completely new approach: While in FP6 and previous Framework Programmes monitoring had been implemented through annual panels of independent experts which selected specific areas of FP implementation and...

The first official data releases of quarterly real GDP for the euro area are published about eight weeks after the end of the reference quarters. Meanwhile, ongoing economic developments must be assessed from various, more readily available, monthly indicators. We examine in the context of...

The study analyses macroeconomic policy-making in the European Union and the role of the European Parliament in it. There are three parts to the study. The first is concerned with policy-making procedures. The second analyses the implementation of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPGs) and...

In order to produce Eurostat demographic projections, scenarios on international migration for European countries have to be defined. To arrive at soundly founded method to formulate meaningful migrations assymptions, the project « Analysis and forccasting International Migration by Major...

This report provides an overview of the methods and results of the TRENDS (Transport and Environment Database System) project. The aim of this project was to produce a range of transparent, consistent and comparable indicators of the environmental pressure caused by transport. Results cover the...