More About Convergence With the EU
I found some useful charts to further illustrate the performance of the countries from my previous article. The source is Prospects of Economic Integration: Are the New Member States Ready to Catch-Up in the Wider EU? (1.7 MB .ppt presentation). Here they are:



May 13th, 2006 at 12:31 am
I think, gathered from the information presented in the previous two blogs, Portugal requires a closer look. What on earth is going on with their economy? The rate of growth in the previous entry for Portugal seems to a bit of an anomly.
Worth investigating for sure.
May 13th, 2006 at 12:35 am
Yeah, I’d expect Portugal to be more in line with Spain. I can’t explain it either. At the moment I’m looking into Ireland