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instability of its revenues has a different. This Country Focus argues that discretionary policy measures may be one such cause …. This is supported by firm-level survey data on the quality of economic policy – tax policy in particular. It appears that … economic policy in Poland has been less predictable, consistent and transparent than in other new Member States, and that this …
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National fiscal frameworks can complement the EU budgetary surveillance procedure. Poland has traditionally had a debt rule, but it did not discourage governments from running high deficits. High expenditure (mainly on social benefits) has been identified as one of the main sources of large...
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This study provides a background for the preparation of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPG) 2003 and assists … policy mix. The conclusions are that the Member States should take more seriously the spirit of reform recommendations and … the call for policy co-ordination. Social partners should have a stronger role in the various co-ordination processes …
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The European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes (ENEPRI) brings together twenty-four leading national … economic policy research institutes from most of the EU-27 countries. The goals of the network are to foster the international … dimension of national economic policy issues. ENEPRI was created in 2000 at the initiative of the Centre for European Policy …
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country. The United States cannot boast that any country has ever adopted its norms and followed its policy preferences so … closely as Turkey has followed the EUu0092s. For anyone who wants the EU to have a credible foreign policy, the Unionu0092s …
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The economic gap between the EU and three candidate countries - Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey - is significant. Living standards, as measured by GDP per capita at PPP, are less than one third of the level prevailing in the former EU-15 u0096 and about half of the average level in the new member...
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of the 'partner' states at their continued dependence. Development of a coherent neighbourhood policy will thus entail …
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