Titlebook: Report on the State of the European Union; Reforming the Europe Jean-Paul Fitoussi,Jacques Le Cacheux Book 2007 OFCE 2007 European Integrat

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Introductionof its history, the year 2004 saw successive controversies, some acrimonious, between national governments and the European Commission concerning the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), a new and massive enlargement of the European Union (EU), on 1 May, with the entry of 10 countries, mostly ‘small’ co

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The Lisbon Strategymployment, in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the world. While some of this poor showing may be attributable to cyclical factors, there is clearly a more profound, structural element to the European lack of economic dynamism that so clearly revealed itself in the 1990s. But what are the m

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Social Norms and Macroeconomic Policiesroeconomic policies been so active in the United States and so passive in Europe? Why, for so long, have European governments accepted with apparent resignation such a high level of unemployment and such ‘soft’ growth?

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The EU Budget to reach an agreement on the future of the European budget. And the compromise eventually agreed upon in the Council’s meeting of December 2005, under the British presidency, was first rejected by a massive coalition in the European Parliament in January 2006, the argument being that the budget is

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Focus on Enlargementts without equivalent. On 1 May 2004, the EU was enlarged to 25 member states by the addition of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Of unprecedented proportions in terms of population, this integration mainly involves the central an

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Fiscal Policies of the CEECs After Joining the EUew members (Cyprus, Hungary, Malta, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia). In accordance with the SGP, joining the EU actually requires adherence to the norm of 3% of GDP with regard to public deficit, a norm that the above-mentioned countries had greatly exceeded in 2003. According to the Commis

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The Turkish Republic and the EUer or not to embark on membership negotiations with Turkey was positive. Turkey had been waiting for this verdict for almost 40 years. Some 40 years of talks with Europe shows the extent to which the will for a Europe with Turkey is rooted in its history. Forty years of talks ought to reassure those