This first issue of a revised approach to the ERM quarterly includes: an overview of relevant indicators such as GDP growth and the unemployment rate; the overall ERM statistics for the second quarter 2006; an examination of the often neglected issue of restructuring in the public sector with...

This third issue of the ERM quarterly includes: current macroeconomic trends from the World Economic Outlook, published in September 2006 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF); the overall ERM statistics for the third quarter 2006; offshoring from eastern Europe during the last two years, in...

This fourth issue of the ERM quarterly includes: current macroeconomic trends, according to the World Bank; an overview of ERM statistics for the fourth quarter 2006; restructuring at Volkswagen and at EADS, the leading European aerospace and defence group; and, for the first time, a separate...