OECD Economic Surveys: European Union - Volume 2007 Issue 11 (Ocde Economic Surveys)

This survey of the European Union economy reviews the EU's economic performance and discusses the main challenges, including pushing ahead with the internal market, opening up network industries to competition, removing barriers to labour mobility, making regional cohesion policy more effective, and enhancing Europe's global role. It focuses on the common and shared policies of the Union. It complements the Euro Area Survey, which deals with monetary and fiscal policy, and the individual country Surveys that assess national policies. While many of the necessary policy changes are firmly under national sovereignty, the EU can play an important role by providing good framework conditions and continuing to enhance the internal marketOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff is the author of 'OECD Economic Surveys: European Union - Volume 2007 Issue 11 (Ocde Economic Surveys)', published 2007 under ISBN 9789264033207 and ISBN 9264033203.