Austria, the Netherlands and Estonia last year achieved the greatest progress towards economic reform targets in the EU, according to a fresh scoreboard by a centre-right London-based think-tank, the Centre for European Reform.
Meanwhile, the report, published on Monday (3 February) names Italy and Greece as "villains" of the reform agenda for scoring poorly in most priority areas, along with Malta, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania.
The analysis, titled "The Lisbon Scoreboard VIII", i...
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