Translation of "Betrachteten länder" in English

Both countries, however, considered that rateexcessive.

It should, however, be pointed outthat six of these are capital regions (only two ofwhich are in the EU-15 Member States).

Map 5.1 gives an overview of primary income in the NUTS - 2 regions of the 24 countries examined here.

The fastest growing regions are therefore scattered relativelybroadly across the 27 countries examined here.

State activity reduces the difference between the highest and the lowest regional value of the 22 countries dealt with here significantly from a factor of around 11.2 to 8.5.

However, eight of these 12 regions are capital regions, which continue to have an above-average rate of growth not only in the EU-15 countries but also in the new Member States and accession countries.

Figure 1 shows primary income in the NUTS 2 regions of the 22 countries featured here.

Between 1933 and 1945, the national boundaries of the countries studied often underwent considerable changes.

Norway is the only country in this analysis purposefully recruiting immigrants with a medium qualification level.

We considered every imaginable country and evaluated it according to macroeconomic and METRO-specific criteria.

It is striking that there are persistent regional income differences within the countries examined.

As the two rapporteurs have also mentioned, the importance of solidarity must be emphasised even more in the case of the two countries under discussion.

All nine countries under examination in this Convergence Report have a derogation but , unlike Denmark and the United Kingdom , no special status as regards Stage Three of EMU .

First , the macroeconomic stabilisation and structural reforms accomplished in the 1990s have fostered output growth , not only directly but also through the inflow of sizeable foreign direct investment in most of the countries under review , bringing in new technologies and enabling productivity to grow relatively strongly .

The ECB 's Convergence Report concluded that none of the countries assessed fulfilled all the conditions for adopting the euro , including the legislative requirements for safeguarding effective independence of the NCBs .

With the exception of Sweden, all countries under review are, at the time of this report, subject to a decision of the Council of the EU (EU Council) on the existence of an excessive deficit.

Political and economic developments over the last two years in the three countries under examination have been marked by privatization of ownership and the launching of private business activity.

The Commission therefore concluded that the parties' overlapping activities would not give rise to competition concerns in any of the countries concerned.

The range of social protection benefits per head is very wide in the eleven countries at around 1 to 10.

Four of the countries analysed pension payments exceed contributions. These are Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, where they exceed contributions by 4,2, 1,4, 1,3 and 2 times respectively.

In the industrial sectors of the four largest countries discussed here for example, capital per employee has grown in fact at an average annual rate of around 4,5% over the past 20 years.

A comparison between the DIW data for industry (including construction) in Table 2 with the OECD data for manufacturing in Table 4 reveals some striking differences in the development from 1970 to 1976: while the DIW figures for the UK show approximate stability and even a slight increase in 1976 and 1977, the OECD data show a rather strong decline in the net operating surplus as percentage of net capital stock.

The survey of research on industrialized countries' financial systems presented in this paper has indicated that the allocation of finance to 'good' borrowers and the possibility of undoing 'mistakes', by transforming 'bad' borrowers into good, can take place independently of the ownership of the industrial assets.