This report presents for the first time data on Belgium and Luxembourg treated as separate countries instead of the Belgium/Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU). The long series for EA12, EU15, and IC24 have become obsolete and are henceforth discontinued.

The factsheets provide an overview of the state of preparations for the changeover of public administrations to the euro as at September 2001. They update the previous factsheets dating from 1998 and outline the progress made since.

The Commission has published a report on the experience of EMU so far. The report provides a factual overview of events in four important areas. The first part presents an assessment of the macro-economic performance of the euro-area economy during the past two years. It also discusses...