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SERVICEGAP


In the past decade the performance of service industries has come to the forefront of research on Europe's comparative economic performance, especially as the benefits from the use of information and communications technology (ICT) have been concentrated in these industries. The SERVICEGAP project will consider the academic and policy concerns that arise from the increasing importance of the market service sector.

The Long-Term Care System for the Elderly in Austria
28 May 2010

Monika Riedel, Markus Kraus

Launched in January 2009, ANCIEN is a research project that runs for a 44-month period and involves 20 partners from EU member states. The project principally concerns the future of long-term care (LTC) for the elderly in Europe and addresses two questions in particular: 1) How will need, demand, supply and use of LTC develop? 2) How do different systems of LTC perform?

INTERECONOMICS, VOL 45, NO. 2 MARCH/APRIL 2010


 Authors: D. Gros, T. Mayer, U. Häde, J. Pisani-Ferry, A. Sapir, J. Matthes, D. Mabbett, W. Schelkle, W. Kösters, P. Grauwe, D. Lachman

Towards the Next Phase of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: The EC's Proposals for the Stockholm Programme
20 August 2009

Sergio Carrera, Elspeth Guild

The European Union is currently engaged in formulating a new five-year strategy for the development of the next phase of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), to replace The Hague Programme of 2004, which expires at the end of this year. In June 2009, the European Commission published its views on the new so-called ‘Stockholm Programme’, which will be adopted under the Swedish Presidency in December, in its Communication “An area of Freedom, Security and Justice serving the citizen: Wider freedom in a safer environment”.

The New European Parliament: All change or business as usual?
10 August 2009
Julia De Clerck-Sachsse

Following its first session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament (EP) is now set up for its new term. With a Polish President at its helm and a bigger share of parties to the right of centre, much could be expected to change. There are indeed some new developments in a more fragmented and conservative parliament in which the ‘new member states’ are no longer so new. Nevertheless, much will also continue along familiar lines.

Lending to Households in Europe (1995-2008): ECRI Statistical Package 2009
31 July 2009

Paul-Ugo Jean, Marc Rothemund

The ECRI Statistical Package on Lending to Households in Europe is a collection of data on lending to households, including consumer credit, housing and other loans, in Europe, covering 38 countries: the 27 EU member states, three EU candidate countries (Croatia, Turkey and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), the EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) as well as four additional key global economies (the United States, Australia, Canada and Japan).