Abstract

Since 2008, the EU (European Union) and the global economy through a deep economic and financial crisis. With the first signs of recovery emerged from the first half of 2010, developments and the rapidly changing global market stress the importance of maintaining competitiveness. The annual reports for 2009 and 2010 on competitiveness have focused on potential impacts of the economic recession on productivity and future determinants EU competitiveness in global markets (changes in the structure of trade and chains supply of the EU, R