Contours of EU Council presidency in 2013
This is a hurdle to a communication but is worth trying to explain in a simple way by listing main forthcoming challenges to European Union and to Lithuania, in particular, […]
Category Archives: economy
Golden age of pensions and of risks
OECD in its Pensions Outlook for 2012 made a nice summary by saying that today pensioners are living a golden age – seniors are living longer and their pensions are […]
Baltic States go nuclear
We know from the theory that to stay competitive the economies must have adequately skilled and cost-effective labor among the factors of production. However, with internal consolidation and falling labour […]
Winners of crisis will take it all
The reforms matter to the extent they are delivered, they have their price and their prize. The OECD recently has published a renewed structural reform inventory for its members to […]
Part-time work helps employment
Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute in Munich have recently published a comparative study on European labor markets during the period of economic crisis. The study has presented a good […]
Sins of world’s most competitive economies
In its latest report on global competitiveness for 2012–2013 the World Economic Forum has covered a record number of 144 economies, which were ranked in 12 pillars of competitiveness encompassing […]
Germany’s constitutional saga
We do recall the summer of 2009, when Germany’s Constitutional Court blessed the Lisbon Treaty but also set out the conditions to further European integration by asking more rights to Bundestag in deciding on […]
Almost Almighty Mario
This Thursday European Central Bank announced a new successor to its Securities Market Programme (SMP), which will be called Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT), an unlimited and sterilised bond purchases programme. […]
Dealing with expanding health sector
The OECD Health Data 2012 report, released this summer, serves as a good background to have a sense of latest trends in healthcare sector across a variety of countries (members […]
Struggling for youth
ILO in its 2012 report on Global employment trends for youth suggested there will be little improvement in youth labour market over the next five years up until 2016, noting […]
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